Argonne National Laboratory
Infrastructure Resilience
Enhancing infrastructure resilience through risk assessment, modeling, and science-based solutions.
Critical infrastructure—including energy, water, transportation, telecommunications, and healthcare—underpins modern society. However, these lifeline functions can be imperiled by natural disasters, cyberattacks, and other threats.
At Argonne, researchers integrate infrastructure modeling, decision science, and earth systems analysis to strengthen resilience against extreme weather, supply chain disruptions, and cascading failures. Leveraging high-fidelity modeling and real-time impact analysis, Argonne science supports communities, businesses, and government agencies as they assess risks, allocate resources, and improve emergency response planning.
Key areas of focus include:
- Risk assessment and predictive modeling – Simulating infrastructure vulnerabilities to forecast potential failures.
- Interdependency analysis – Understanding how disruptions in one sector impact others, from electricity and transportation to finance and manufacturing.
- Emergency response support – Providing real-time disaster impact analysis and decision-making tools to aid recovery.
- Extreme weather resilience – Developing science-based solutions to help communities and infrastructure adapt to risks.
Through partnerships with government agencies, industry, and local communities, Argonne delivers actionable insights and science-driven strategies to reduce infrastructure vulnerabilities and enhance national security.
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