Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 88, No. 212 

Friday, November 3, 2023 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 10660 of October 31, 2023 

Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2023 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

Throughout our history, America has been a can-do country full of possibilities. Our people are models of grit, drive, and determination, and when 

we properly prepare ourselves, we can meet any challenge that comes our 

way and ensure future generations thrive. This Critical Infrastructure Security 

and Resilience Month, let us recommit to reinforcing our critical infrastructure and remaining vigilant to threats that undermine our collective security 

and economic prosperity. 

That means protecting our investments from all hazards and ensuring the 

infrastructure that American people rely on every day is secure and resilient. 

Climate change is making natural disasters more frequent, ferocious, and 

costly, straining our highways, railways, waterways, and energy systems. 

These disruptions—whether a natural disaster, a pandemic, or a cyberattack— 

exploit vulnerabilities in our supply chains and make it more difficult 

to access critical products when people need them. State and non-state 

actors, such as criminals and violent extremists, continue to target our 

power grids, pipelines, health care systems, and water systems—threatening 

the infrastructure that underpins our economy, public health and safety, 

and national security. As President, I am committed to building a better 

future for our country by making America’s critical infrastructure more 

secure and addressing the threats and hazards that place them at risk. 

Bolstering the Nation’s infrastructure is a cornerstone of my Investing in 

America agenda. With a combination of funding from the American Rescue 

Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the 

CHIPS and Science Act, we are investing billions of dollars to enhance 

the security of our infrastructure by elevating roads and bridges above projected flood zones, supporting community resilience programs, reducing the 

strain put on our power grids, and so much more. These investments will 

save lives, protect our families, render a strong and innovative economy, 

enhance our resilience to disasters, and provide peace of mind to millions 

of Americans. 

We know that to protect our critical infrastructure we must improve our 

cybersecurity. From the very beginning of my Administration, we have 

worked tirelessly to strengthen our Nation’s cyber defenses. During my first 

year in office, I issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, a crucial step toward defending against the increasingly malicious 

cyber campaigns targeting our infrastructure. My Bipartisan Infrastructure 

Law builds on this progress by investing $1 billion to bolster cybersecurity 

for State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments. I am proud to have 

appointed senior cybersecurity officials who are laser-focused on anticipating 

and responding to cyber threats and ensuring that the Federal Government 

leverages all of its resources to improve the cybersecurity of the Nation’s 

critical infrastructure. These priorities have been catalyzed by my National 

Cybersecurity Strategy released earlier this year, which lays out our strategy 

to enhance the cybersecurity and resilience of our Nation’s critical infrastructure and the American people. 


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While my Administration is investing to protect America’s critical infrastructure, we are also working with our international partners to build sustainable, 

resilient infrastructure around the globe. At the G20 Summit earlier this 

year, through the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, I 

was proud to unveil the launch of the landmark United States partnership 

with the European Union to develop the Trans-African Corridor. We are 

working with partners to connect the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

and Zambia to regional and global trade markets through the Port of Lobito 

in Angola, including by launching feasibility studies for a new greenfield 

rail line expansion between Zambia and Angola. This reliable and costeffective corridor will increase efficiencies, secure regional supply chains, 

enhance economic unity, generate jobs, and decrease the carbon footprint 

in both countries. We hope to pursue opportunities to connect our initial 

investments across the continent to Tanzania and, ultimately, the Indian 

Ocean. Through quality infrastructure investments in key economic corridors 

like these, we are creating a better future filled with opportunity, dignity, 

and prosperity for everyone. 

The United States is the only country in the world that becomes stronger 

after every challenge we face. Time and again, we have seen that when 

we work together, nothing is beyond our capacity. This Critical Infrastructure 

Security and Resilience Month, let us come together in common cause 

to bolster our Nation’s critical infrastructure and create a more resilient 

nation and economy for generations to come. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2023 

as Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month. I call upon the 

people of the United States to recognize the importance of protecting our 

Nation’s infrastructure and to observe this month with appropriate measures 

to enhance our national security and resilience. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day 

of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of 

the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 

forty-eighth. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24482 

Filed 11–2–23; 8:45 am] 

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