Building a Nation That Can’t Be Shut Down
America’s Infrastructure Has a Plan for 72 Hours. We’re Building the Plan for Day 4.
Four adversary nations have pre-positioned inside American power grids, water systems, and communications networks. FIR builds the intelligence, the frameworks, the trained professionals, and the community-level resilience to make that strategy fail. We work across critical infrastructure, military installations, and local government to ensure that when the grid goes dark, America doesn’t.
120+ volunteers nationwide
501(c)(3) national security nonprofit
2 published books · FBI-InfraGard Award (2023)
Quick Video: “America’s Plan for Day 4”
One Mission. Six Lines of Effort.
FIR operates at every level of the infrastructure resilience challenge — from the individual household to national policy. Our work is threat-informed, source-disciplined, and designed to produce measurable readiness.
Threat Intelligence & Analysis
Published threat volumes covering the Four-Party Ecosystem, Chinese infrastructure penetration, U.S. CI vulnerability, and military installation exposure. Source-disciplined. Continuously updated.
Community Resilience
The Fresh Start Initiative: free, data-driven BSE readiness assessments for municipalities, utilities, and community organizations. 12-document deliverable suite. Bronze-through-Diamond Blue maturity pathway.
Training & Certification
15+ courses from BSE 099 (free orientation) through Diamond Blue Assessor certification. 100% remote delivery. OODA Loop pedagogy. Professional credentials with Credly digital badges.
Policy & Advocacy
Congressional engagement on grid hardening, EMP/GMD standards, and the proposed BSE Executive Order. FERC comment letters. Coordination with CISA, DOE, and state emergency management.
Military & Defense Infrastructure
Installation-community interdependency analysis. City-base pair resilience assessments. Alignment with DoD mission assurance requirements. Supporting the defense industrial base supply chain.
Material Solutions & Standards
Evaluation and certification of COTS hardening equipment against FIR’s 15 hardening standards. Vendor-neutral audit framework. Supply chain integrity analysis including FAE/FAP screening.
Who We Serve
Every stakeholder in America’s infrastructure has a role in resilience. Find yours.
Municipalities & Counties
Your community depends on infrastructure you don’t control. We assess it, map the dependencies, and build a roadmap to self-sufficiency.
Military Installations
Mission readiness depends on community infrastructure. We analyze the interdependency and build joint resilience plans for city-base pairs.
Utilities & CI Operators
Your legal exposure to a BSE is real. We provide audit-grade assessments aligned with NERC CIP, SAFETY Act, and emerging federal hardening mandates.
Policy Makers & Researchers
Source-disciplined threat intelligence, proposed legislation, and FERC/CISA engagement. Everything we publish is sourced and verifiable.
Individuals & Households
BSE 099 is free. Start with a Get Home Bag and a route plan. Then help your neighborhood become part of something larger.
Material Solutions Vendors
FIR evaluates and certifies hardening equipment against 15 standards. Vendor-neutral. Audit-based. No pay-to-play.
The Threat Is Documented. The Gap Is Real.
In 2024, the FBI, CISA, and NSA issued joint public advisories confirming that foreign cyber actors have gained persistent access to American power grids, water treatment systems, and communications networks. These are not theoretical capabilities — they are documented intrusions confirmed by the agencies responsible for defending them. The question facing every community is straightforward: if the grid goes down for 30 days, does your town have a plan for Day 4?
Four adversary nations — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — have pre-positioned cyber weapons inside American power grids, water treatment systems, and communications networks. The FBI, NSA, and CISA have confirmed it in public testimony. Their strategy depends on one thing: that American communities have no plan for Day 4.
Every community that becomes self-sustaining defeats that strategy. Every town that can keep its water running, its lights on, and its people fed without the national grid is a town that cannot be leveraged against its own country. Resilience isn’t a fringe idea. It’s how communities have always survived.
Our Flagship Program: Community Resilience
Clean Local Power
Distributed generation, battery storage, and microgrid capability that keeps essential services running when the national grid doesn’t. Not off-grid ideology — engineered redundancy.
Water Independence
Treatment and distribution systems your community controls, maintains, and can operate without external power or chemical supply chains for 30+ days.
Food Security
Local agricultural production, community food storage, and supply chain alternatives that mean your town doesn’t empty its grocery stores in 72 hours.
Communications That Work
Amateur radio networks, mesh communications, and non-grid-dependent coordination systems that keep your community connected when cell towers go dark.
Neighbors Who Know the Plan
Trained volunteers, certified practitioners, and a community that has practiced together — not for a hurricane, but for the event that lasts a month.
A Community Worth Defending
Self-reliance creates purpose and pride. This creates cohesion. Cohesion creates survivability. This is how communities were built before we outsourced everything to systems we don’t control.
Americans Have Done This Before
Civil Defense wasn’t a fringe movement — it was who we were. Communities prepared because preparation was the American way. Somewhere we stopped. FIR is rebuilding that tradition — not with bunkers and freeze-dried food, but with engineered infrastructure, certified professionals, and a framework that has been tested against the actual threat.
The towns that adopt this will be the ones that thrive — not just survive.
How FIR Helps
Understand the Threat
Four nations are positioned to disrupt American infrastructure. Learn what that means for your community.
Assess Your Community
FIR provides free, data-driven infrastructure assessments performed by certified assessors. Apply and receive a complete document suite tailored to your community’s actual infrastructure.
Get Trained & Certified
From BSE Foundations to Diamond Blue Assessor certification — build the expertise your community needs. 100% remote delivery.
Join the Mission
120+ professionals volunteer to protect America’s infrastructure. Your skills matter. Join a task force or support our work.
Shape National Policy
Congressional education, FERC comment letters, and a proposed BSE Executive Order — built on source-disciplined technical analysis, not talking points.
Strengthen Military Readiness
Military installations depend on civilian infrastructure. FIR assesses the interdependency and builds joint resilience plans for city-base pairs.
Assess. Plan. Certify.
Assess
We load your community’s critical infrastructure from 10+ federal databases, trace dependency chains, identify single points of failure, and calculate your Days of Supply.
Plan
We produce 12 companion documents — Executive Summary, Roadmap, Funding Navigator, Training Plan, Threat Intel Report, and more — all generated from your actual data.
Certify
We train your team from BSE 099 through Diamond Blue certification. Your community becomes a self-sustaining Regional Resilient Community anchor.
The Assessment Is Free. The First Step Is Yours.
FIR conducts community resilience assessments at no cost. We load your infrastructure data, map your dependencies, identify your single points of failure, and deliver a complete roadmap. No sales pitch. No upsell. Just the truth about where your community stands — and what it would take to stand on its own.