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This guidebook provides an overview of recommended roles, best practices, and strategies for managing supply chain risk, aligning with the existing program risk management framework
outlined in the DoD Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management Guide.

The World Economic Forum highlighted a major "blind spot" in cybersecurity — the vulnerability of critical infrastructure's operational technology (OT) systems — following repeated global power outages such as the Spain–Portugal blackout. Countries are taking steps to ensure better visibility into what is really happening in critical infrastructure networks.

The U.S. communications infrastructure plays a critical role in the nation's security, economy, operation of government, and in the daily lives of most Americans. Vital sectors of society and the nation's economy — including public safety, health care, energy, transportation, finance, information technology, and education — increasingly rely on communications infrastructure.