Overview
- The U.S. Army, which convened its first Defense Critical Infrastructure Summit at Fort Bragg on Thursday, brought senior officials, regulators and utility executives into one room to focus on base resilience.
- Leaders named four urgent risks to installations: drone attacks, cyber disruption, force‑projection dependencies, and slow information sharing.
- Participants committed to draft a Defense Critical Infrastructure playbook that removes regulatory and contract hurdles and sets a path for sustained cooperation, though no timeline was announced.
- Fort Bragg served as a case study in closed‑door talks to map how posts rely on private power, water and gas, a reality across roughly 288 Army sites that could stall moving troops if services fail.
- Agencies outlined follow‑on work, including FCC steps to limit risky foreign drones and JIATF‑401 efforts to test counter‑UAS tools at Bragg, with lessons meant to scale across installations.