{ "framework": "National Capability Framework", "name": "Strategic Infrastructure", "version": "0.1", "supersedes": "0.0", "version_date": "2026-08-16", "metadata": { "description": "Version 0.1 of the Strategic Infrastructure domain of the National Capability Framework. This release restructures the v0.0 taxonomy from eight capability groups and 25 capabilities to ten capability groups and 50 capabilities, introduces boundary_conditions and order_logic fields at every level, and validates the structure against national and international critical infrastructure designation regimes, including the US framework (PPD-21 sectors reaffirmed by NSM-22), UK Critical National Infrastructure, the EU Critical Entities Resilience Directive (2022/2557), the EU NIS2 Directive (2022/2555), Australia's Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 and NATO's baseline resilience requirements.", "change_summary": [ "Three capability groups added: Water, Sanitation & Waste; Agriculture & Food; and Financial Infrastructure, aligning the domain with sectors designated across the US, UK, EU and Australian critical infrastructure regimes.", "The v0.0 Communications and AI & Digital groups merged into a single Communications & Digital Infrastructure group, mirroring the UK's classification of data infrastructure as a sub-sector of Communications (Critical National Infrastructure designation, September 2024) and the EU's single digital infrastructure sector.", "The v0.0 Aerospace group broadened to Space, Aerospace & Defence: satellites and orbital systems and ground segment capabilities added, consistent with space-sector designations in the UK (2015), the EU CER Directive and Australia's SOCI Act, and the defence estate brought into scope under a sector-override rule, complementing defence industrial base designations in the US, UK and Australian frameworks.", "Capabilities split along industry and statistical conventions: electricity generation by technology family (IEA convention), extraction into mining and hydrocarbons (ISIC/NACE division), maritime into seaports and inland waterways, land transport into rail, roads and a logistics-and-border integration layer, and communications by regulatory licence category (fixed, mobile, international gateway, broadcast).", "Government & Public Administration added as a capability, reflecting the US Government Services and Facilities sector, the EU CER public administration sector and NATO's continuity-of-government baseline requirement, with election infrastructure included consistent with its 2017 designation as a US critical infrastructure subsector.", "Validation absorptions at asset level: chemicals, explosives and semiconductor fabrication named in manufacturing; postal and courier infrastructure placed in logistics (NIS2 postal and courier services sector); hydrometeorological and early-warning infrastructure placed in emergency services (WMO Early Warnings for All initiative); national cybersecurity facilities and domain-name registries placed in the digital capabilities (NIS2 and EU CER essential services); national medical stockpiles named in health.", "Exclusions codified at domain level: commercial facilities (hotels, shopping centres, casinos, entertainment venues), places of worship, the private housing market, agricultural land holdings, spectrum allocations and other intangible rights, and policy instruments such as subsidies.", "Identifier persistence: the domain code, seven of ten capability group codes and 23 capability codes are carried unchanged from v0.0; four codes are retired (see retired_codes); all new nodes carry null codes pending assignment.", "Capability groups and capabilities reordered along a value-chain logic, documented per node in the order_logic field.", "Typographical corrections from v0.0: Transmission & Distribution and Workforce & Innovation." ], "retired_codes": [ { "code": "factbase.org/cap/T15VHZG60X", "name": "Extraction", "disposition": "Split into Mining & Quarrying and Oil & Gas Extraction." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/Z5QV7J2V2C", "name": "Generation", "disposition": "Split into Thermal Generation, Nuclear Generation, Hydropower and Renewable Generation." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/V39NEZ4121", "name": "Data Centers & Digital Platforms", "disposition": "Merged into Data Centres, Compute & Cloud (factbase.org/cap/MJ96YCN410)." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cpg/CP2PJ3W60B", "name": "AI & Digital Infrastructure", "disposition": "Group merged into Communications & Digital Infrastructure (factbase.org/cpg/M28F098G1Q)." } ] }, "description": "Strategic Infrastructure encompasses the critical systems and facilities that underpin national resilience, economic productivity and long-term security, spanning ten capability groups from resource extraction and food systems through energy, water and manufacturing, across the transport, digital and financial networks, to social services and space, aerospace and defence.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers civilian, dual-use and military physical assets and the systems that operate them, classified by primary function except where a specific rule overrides. Assets are attributed to the owning or operating state regardless of physical location, so satellites on orbit are included, and ownership interests are recorded as attributes to support investment-screening analysis. Purpose-built military assets are classified under Space, Aerospace & Defence regardless of function, so a naval base is not a seaport and a military hospital is not health infrastructure, while dual-use assets remain classified by their civilian function. Excluded by design: commercial facilities such as hotels, shopping centres, casinos and entertainment venues; places of worship; the private housing market; agricultural land holdings; spectrum allocations and other intangible rights; and policy instruments such as subsidies.", "order_logic": "Capability groups follow the national value chain: what the country extracts and grows (Resource; Agriculture & Food), the utilities that make activity possible (Energy; Water, Sanitation & Waste), the industry that transforms inputs into goods (Advanced Manufacturing), the three networks that move things (Transport for goods, Communications & Digital for data, Financial for money), the services that sustain the population (Social) and the systems that extend and protect the whole (Space, Aerospace & Defence). Read as one line: extract, grow, power, water, make, move, connect, transact, sustain, protect.", "version_changes": "Restructured from eight capability groups and 25 capabilities in v0.0 to ten groups and 50 capabilities, validated against the US, UK, EU and Australian critical infrastructure designation regimes and NATO baseline resilience requirements; boundary_conditions, order_logic and version_changes fields introduced at every level.", "code": "factbase.org/dom/G0410PEZ08", "level": "domain", "capabilityGroups": [ { "name": "Resource Infrastructure", "description": "Resource Infrastructure encompasses the extraction, processing, refining, storage and export systems that convert raw materials, including minerals and hydrocarbons, into usable resources and move them to domestic and global markets.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers commodities from the ground to the export gate. Electricity generation from those commodities belongs to Energy Infrastructure, so an oil refinery sits here while a gas-fired power station does not; manufacture of finished goods from refined materials belongs to Advanced Manufacturing, so a copper smelter sits here while a steel rolling mill does not.", "order_logic": "Capabilities run upstream to downstream along the commodity chain: solid-mineral extraction, then hydrocarbon extraction, then processing and refining, then storage, transport and export.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier. The Extraction capability was split into Mining & Quarrying and Oil & Gas Extraction, mirroring the ISIC/NACE statistical division between mining and petroleum extraction, and Transport & Export was renamed Storage, Transport & Export.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/KN1SB1XE2T", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Mining & Quarrying", "description": "Mining and quarrying covers the extraction of solid minerals and materials from the earth, including open-pit and underground mines, quarries and mineral sands operations, together with on-site crushing and concentration.", "boundary_conditions": "Includes uranium mines, which sit here rather than under Nuclear Generation. Excludes oil and gas wells (Oil & Gas Extraction) and standalone smelters and refineries away from the mine site (Processing & Refining).", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, created by splitting the v0.0 Extraction capability (retired), because mining and hydrocarbon extraction are licensed, regulated and statistically reported as separate industries in virtually all jurisdictions.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "mineral production volume by commodity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "mining output value share of GDP", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "operating mine count", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Oil & Gas Extraction", "description": "Oil and gas extraction covers upstream hydrocarbon production, including onshore and offshore fields, wells, production platforms, floating production vessels and field-level gathering and separation systems.", "boundary_conditions": "Field-level processing sits with the extraction asset; standalone gas processing plants and refineries belong to Processing & Refining, transmission pipelines and export terminals to Storage, Transport & Export, and LNG import and regasification terminals to Energy Infrastructure, under Storage & Fuel Supply.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, created by splitting the v0.0 Extraction capability (retired) along the standard upstream industry boundary between mining and petroleum.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "crude oil production volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "natural gas production volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "proved reserves and reserve life", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Processing & Refining", "description": "Processing and refining transform raw extracted materials into refined commodities through facilities such as oil refineries, gas processing plants, smelters and mineral beneficiation plants.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers refinement of raw commodities into refined commodities, including primary metal smelting and secondary smelting of recovered scrap. Conversion of refined materials into manufactured products, including petrochemicals, fertilisers, cement and rolled steel, belongs to Advanced Manufacturing, under Materials & Inputs.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; description broadened to name gas processing and the boundary with downstream manufacturing made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/DZ4GHM7M17", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "refining capacity and utilisation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "mineral processing and smelting capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "share of domestic output processed onshore", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Storage, Transport & Export", "description": "Storage, transport and export covers the systems that store and move bulk commodities to market, including transmission pipelines, slurry pipelines and conveyors, tank farms, LNG liquefaction and export terminals, and crude loading facilities.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers pipelines and dedicated hydrocarbon export and loading infrastructure, including offshore mooring points. Dry-bulk marine terminals, even single-commodity coal or iron-ore terminals, belong to Transport Infrastructure, under Seaports & Terminals, and fuel depots serving the domestic market to Energy Infrastructure, under Storage & Fuel Supply.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Transport & Export) with the same identifier; renamed to include storage and given explicit boundaries with port terminals and domestic fuel supply.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/K5G4BQ9Q1X", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "pipeline network length and throughput", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "bulk export terminal capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "resource storage capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Agriculture & Food Infrastructure", "description": "Agriculture & Food Infrastructure comprises the irrigation, livestock, fisheries and post-harvest systems that support food production and move food from production to market.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers dedicated agricultural and food-system infrastructure from the scheme offtake to the wholesale market. Bulk water storage belongs to Water, Sanitation & Waste, industrial food manufacture to Advanced Manufacturing, and agricultural land itself is excluded at domain level.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the food chain: water into production (irrigation), production on land (livestock) and on water (fisheries), then post-harvest storage and movement to market.", "version_changes": "New group in v0.1. Food is a designated critical infrastructure sector in the US framework (Food and Agriculture), UK Critical National Infrastructure (Food), the EU CER Directive (production, processing and distribution of food) and Australia's SOCI Act (food and grocery).", "code": null, "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Irrigation & Agricultural Water", "description": "Irrigation and agricultural water covers the infrastructure that supplies and manages water for agricultural production, including irrigation schemes, scheme headworks, primary and secondary canals, agricultural drainage and on-scheme storage.", "boundary_conditions": "Bulk dams and reservoirs supplying irrigation belong to Water, Sanitation & Waste, under Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence; this capability begins at the scheme offtake. Drinking-water systems belong to Water Supply & Treatment.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; irrigation infrastructure previously had only partial coverage within water control structures and is now separated so that agricultural water use is classified with the food system it serves.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "irrigated share of cultivated land", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "agricultural water storage per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "irrigation efficiency", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Livestock & Veterinary", "description": "Livestock and veterinary infrastructure covers facilities supporting animal production and health, including abattoirs, livestock markets and saleyards, quarantine stations, dip and vaccination facilities, and veterinary laboratories and clinics.", "boundary_conditions": "Abattoirs sit here as first-stage food infrastructure, while industrial meat processing and packaging belong to Advanced Manufacturing, under Production Systems. Human health laboratories belong to Social Infrastructure, under Health Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; brings livestock and veterinary facilities, previously unclassified, into scope in line with the breadth of food-sector designations, which extend to animal health and biosecurity.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "livestock inventory", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "veterinary service coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "animal disease outbreak incidence", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Fisheries & Aquaculture", "description": "Fisheries and aquaculture infrastructure covers fishing harbours and landing sites, fish markets and auction halls, aquaculture farms and hatcheries, and associated ice plants and cold stores.", "boundary_conditions": "Fishing harbours sit here rather than under Seaports & Terminals, which covers commercial cargo ports. Industrial fish processing belongs to Advanced Manufacturing, under Production Systems.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; gives fishing harbours and aquaculture a classification distinct from commercial seaports, consistent with fisheries being administered as part of the food system rather than the transport system.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "capture fisheries production", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "aquaculture production volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "fishing fleet capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Storage, Cold Chain & Markets", "description": "Storage, cold chain and markets covers post-harvest and food-system infrastructure, including grain silos and strategic food reserves, warehouse receipt facilities, cold storage, food and grocery distribution centres and wholesale food markets.", "boundary_conditions": "Food and grocery distribution centres sit here, while general-purpose logistics parks belong to Transport Infrastructure, under Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure. Food and beverage manufacturing belongs to Advanced Manufacturing, and general community markets to Social Infrastructure, under Cultural, Community & Recreational Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; covers the distribution end of the food system, with grocery distribution centres included consistent with the scope of Australia's food and grocery critical infrastructure sector.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "grain storage capacity relative to production", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "cold chain capacity per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "post-harvest loss rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Energy Infrastructure", "description": "Energy Infrastructure comprises the thermal, nuclear, hydro and renewable generation fleet, the transmission and distribution grid, and the storage and fuel supply systems that produce, move and store energy reliably for economies and societies.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the electricity system and fuel supply to the domestic energy market, with generating assets classified by primary fuel. Upstream fuel production and export belong to Resource Infrastructure, dams to Water, Sanitation & Waste, and backup generators to their host facility rather than the generation fleet.", "order_logic": "Generation capabilities are ordered by technology family following statistical convention (thermal, nuclear, hydro, other renewables), followed by delivery (transmission and distribution) and finally storage and fuel supply.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier. The Generation capability (retired) was split into four technology families following IEA statistical convention, the transmission capability name was corrected, and Fuel and Storage was renamed Storage & Fuel Supply with pumped storage reassigned to Hydropower.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/987GE5WB1P", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Thermal Generation", "description": "Thermal generation refers to the production of electricity from the combustion of fossil fuels, including coal-fired, gas-fired and liquid-fuelled power stations and co-generation plants.", "boundary_conditions": "Includes captive and industrial power stations, such as a mine's own plant. Biomass and geothermal plants belong to Renewable Generation despite their thermal processes, and waste-to-energy plants to Water, Sanitation & Waste, under Solid Waste & Recycling, since their primary function is waste disposal.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Generation capability (retired); the technology-family split follows IEA convention and how utilities, regulators and fleet trackers segment generation.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "installed thermal capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "thermal fleet availability factor", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average fleet age and efficiency", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Nuclear Generation", "description": "Nuclear generation covers nuclear power reactors and the associated fuel-cycle facilities, including enrichment, fuel fabrication, reprocessing and radioactive waste storage, together with research reactors.", "boundary_conditions": "Uranium mining belongs to Resource Infrastructure, under Mining & Quarrying, and radioactive waste facilities sit here rather than under Solid Waste & Recycling.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Generation capability (retired); nuclear is separately designated in the US framework (Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste sector) and separately regulated in all jurisdictions.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "installed nuclear capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "reactors operating and under construction", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "nuclear share of generation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "capacity factor", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Hydropower", "description": "Hydropower covers the generation of electricity from water, including conventional powerhouses, run-of-river and small hydro schemes, and pumped-storage plants.", "boundary_conditions": "The powerhouse and generating equipment sit here while the dam, reservoir and water infrastructure at the same site belong to Water, Sanitation & Waste, under Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence, so a multipurpose scheme yields one asset in each. Pumped storage is classified here rather than under Storage & Fuel Supply, following industry convention.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Generation capability (retired); pumped storage is assigned here following International Hydropower Association and IEA classification convention.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "installed hydropower capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "hydropower generation and storage volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "share of technically feasible potential developed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Renewable Generation", "description": "Renewable generation covers electricity production from renewable sources other than hydropower, including solar photovoltaic and concentrated solar plants, onshore and offshore wind farms, geothermal stations, and biomass and biogas plants.", "boundary_conditions": "Utility-scale plants and mini-grid generation are included; household and rooftop systems fall below the asset threshold. Hydropower has its own capability, and waste-to-energy belongs to Solid Waste & Recycling.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Generation capability (retired); covers non-hydro renewables as reported in standard national energy statistics.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "installed wind and solar capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "renewable share of generation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "annual capacity additions", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Transmission & Distribution", "description": "Transmission and distribution carry high-voltage electricity from generation plants over long distances and deliver it at usable voltages to consumers, through lines, substations, transformers, cross-border interconnectors and grid control centres.", "boundary_conditions": "Cross-border electricity interconnectors sit here rather than under border or communications infrastructure. Retail energy points such as petrol stations and public EV charging belong to Storage & Fuel Supply.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; name corrected from the misspelt v0.0 form, and interconnectors, control centres and the boundary with retail energy points made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/G2SY9RBZ13", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "average outage duration and frequency", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "transmission and distribution losses", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "electricity access rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "cross-border interconnection capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Storage & Fuel Supply", "description": "Storage and fuel supply covers systems that store energy and supply fuels to the domestic energy system, including utility-scale batteries, hydrogen production and storage, LNG regasification terminals, strategic reserves, fuel depots, gas distribution networks and retail fuel and charging points.", "boundary_conditions": "Pumped storage belongs to Hydropower, and export-oriented terminals and tank farms to Resource Infrastructure, under Storage, Transport & Export; this capability serves domestic consumption, so an LNG import terminal sits here while a liquefaction export terminal does not.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Fuel and Storage) with the same identifier; renamed, scoped to domestic supply and pumped storage moved to Hydropower.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/8ZPSJXQP08", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "grid-scale storage capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "petroleum stockholding in days of consumption", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "gas storage as share of annual demand", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Water, Sanitation & Waste Infrastructure", "description": "Water, Sanitation & Waste Infrastructure comprises the systems that abstract, treat, store and distribute water, manage wastewater and sanitation, control bulk water through dams and flood defences, and collect and process solid waste.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the water cycle and solid waste as public and industrial services. Hydropower generation belongs to Energy Infrastructure even where it shares a dam, irrigation schemes to Agriculture & Food Infrastructure, and bottled water and beverage plants to Advanced Manufacturing.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the water cycle as managed: capture and control of raw water, treatment and distribution, collection and treatment of wastewater, and disposal and recovery of solid waste.", "version_changes": "New group in v0.1. Drinking water and waste water are separate sectors under the EU CER Directive, water and sewerage a sector under Australia's SOCI Act, and the US framework designates both a Water and Wastewater sector and a separate Dams sector; the four capabilities mirror these designations, with waste management additionally a NIS2 sector.", "code": null, "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence", "description": "Dams, reservoirs and flood defence covers large water control and storage structures, including dams, barrages, raw-water reservoirs, levees, sea walls and urban stormwater systems.", "boundary_conditions": "All dams sit here regardless of purpose, including those with attached hydropower, whose generating stations belong to Energy Infrastructure, under Hydropower, so a multipurpose scheme yields one asset in each. Irrigation schemes and canals downstream of the bulk supply belong to Agriculture & Food Infrastructure, under Irrigation & Agricultural Water.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; consolidates dams, flood defence and stormwater, consistent with the US framework's dedicated Dams sector. Irrigation-specific infrastructure was moved to Agriculture & Food in the same release.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "reservoir storage per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "population protected by flood defences", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "dam safety inspection compliance", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Water Supply & Treatment", "description": "Water supply and treatment covers the abstraction, treatment and distribution of drinking and bulk water, including treatment works, desalination plants, pumping stations, bulk pipelines, service reservoirs, water towers, boreholes and rural water points.", "boundary_conditions": "Treated-water storage such as service reservoirs and water towers sits here, while raw-water impoundments belong to Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence. Water bottling plants belong to Advanced Manufacturing.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; mirrors the EU CER drinking water sector.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "safely managed drinking water coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "non-revenue water share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "treatment capacity utilisation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Wastewater & Sanitation", "description": "Wastewater and sanitation covers the collection and treatment of wastewater and faecal sludge, including treatment plants, sewer networks, pumping stations and public sanitation facilities.", "boundary_conditions": "Combined sewers carrying both sewage and stormwater sit here, while dedicated stormwater drainage belongs to Dams, Reservoirs & Flood Defence. Sludge treatment and disposal remain here rather than under Solid Waste & Recycling.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; mirrors the EU CER waste water sector.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "safely managed sanitation coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "wastewater treated share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "sewerage connection rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Solid Waste & Recycling", "description": "Solid waste and recycling covers the collection, processing and disposal of solid waste, including landfills and dumpsites, transfer stations, material recovery and recycling facilities, composting plants, hazardous waste facilities and incinerators, including waste-to-energy plants.", "boundary_conditions": "Waste-to-energy plants sit here because their primary function is waste disposal, with electricity as a by-product. Radioactive waste belongs to Nuclear Generation, and secondary smelting of recovered scrap to Resource Infrastructure, under Processing & Refining.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; waste management is a NIS2 sector, and waste-to-energy is classified here by primary function.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "controlled waste disposal share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "recycling rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "waste collection coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Advanced Manufacturing", "description": "Advanced Manufacturing integrates materials, production systems, supply chains and skilled workforce innovation to enable efficient, high-quality and competitive industrial production.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the manufacture of intermediate and finished goods, including food and beverage processing. Primary commodity processing such as ore smelting and oil refining belongs to Resource Infrastructure, and aerospace and defence production to Space, Aerospace & Defence.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the production chain: material inputs, production itself, the connective supply-chain fabric, and the workforce and innovation base that sustains it.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier and capability set; chemicals and semiconductor fabrication named explicitly following validation against the US Chemical sector, the NIS2 chemicals sector and semiconductor-focused industrial strategies.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/DDQ705HE07", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Materials & Inputs", "description": "Materials and inputs covers the production of industrial materials and inputs, including chemical and petrochemical plants, fertiliser plants, industrial explosives plants, industrial gases, cement works, and downstream metal products such as rolled and fabricated steel.", "boundary_conditions": "Chemical manufacture of all kinds sits here, including explosives serving the mining industry. Primary metal production from ore belongs to Resource Infrastructure, under Processing & Refining; this capability begins where refined commodities are converted into industrial materials, so a cement works sits here while a copper smelter does not.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; chemicals, explosives and industrial gases named explicitly, reflecting the US Chemical critical infrastructure sector and the NIS2 chemicals sector.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/HQ0JRMVM1S", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "domestic supply share of key industrial inputs", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "materials production capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "input import dependence", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Production Systems", "description": "Production systems covers the factories and assembly plants that produce finished goods across sectors, including automotive, electronics and semiconductor fabrication, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage manufacturing.", "boundary_conditions": "Aerospace and defence factories belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under Manufacturing Facilities, and facilities serving several sectors are classified by primary output.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; semiconductor fabrication named explicitly, reflecting semiconductor-focused industrial strategies such as the US CHIPS and Science Act and the EU Chips Act.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/WYXMM9TW2S", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "manufacturing capacity utilisation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "advanced production facilities count", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "capital investment in plant and machinery", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Supply Chain & Ecosystem", "description": "Supply chain and ecosystem covers the shared industrial fabric that connects producers, including industrial parks, special economic zones, supplier clusters and manufacturing-oriented warehousing.", "boundary_conditions": "Transport-oriented hubs such as dry ports and inland container depots belong to Transport Infrastructure, under Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure, with mixed sites classified by primary function.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; boundary with transport logistics hubs made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/RGEF8BNR1N", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "supplier network depth", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "industrial park and zone occupancy", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average supplier lead times", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Workforce & Innovation", "description": "Workforce and innovation in advanced manufacturing highlights the importance of skilled labour and a culture of innovation for maintaining competitiveness in the manufacturing sector.", "boundary_conditions": "Industry-embedded training and innovation centres sit here, while general technical and vocational institutions belong to Social Infrastructure, under Education & Skills Infrastructure. This capability is largely non-physical and yields few asset records.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; trailing punctuation removed from the v0.0 name and the boundary with general vocational education made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/8Y9ZZPZR01", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "manufacturing employment", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "engineering and technician density in industry", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "manufacturing R&D expenditure", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Transport Infrastructure", "description": "Transport Infrastructure includes the air, maritime, inland waterway, rail, road and multimodal systems that provide the physical and logistical foundations for the movement of people and goods across regions and global markets.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the movement of people and general goods; commodity pipelines belong to Resource Infrastructure, electricity interconnectors to Energy Infrastructure, and military airbases and naval bases to Space, Aerospace & Defence. Urban transit is included, with metro and light rail under Rail Infrastructure and bus rapid transit under Roads & Bridges.", "order_logic": "Capabilities run from international gateways (sea, then air) through domestic networks (inland waterways, rail, road) to the integration layer that connects modes and crosses borders.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier. Maritime Infrastructure was split into Seaports & Terminals and Inland Waterways & Ferries, and Land/Multimodal Connectivity into Rail Infrastructure, Roads & Bridges and a logistics-and-border integration capability, reflecting how these networks are separately financed, regulated and tracked; postal and courier infrastructure was absorbed consistent with the NIS2 postal and courier services sector.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/D6JTQ6KC1M", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Seaports & Terminals", "description": "Seaports and terminals covers the commercial trade gateways of the maritime system, including seaports and their container, roll-on roll-off, dry-bulk, liquid-bulk and general-cargo terminals, cruise terminals, shipyards and dry docks.", "boundary_conditions": "Dry-bulk terminals sit here even when dedicated to a single commodity, such as coal or iron-ore export terminals, while dedicated hydrocarbon export and loading infrastructure belongs to Resource Infrastructure, under Storage, Transport & Export. Naval bases belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under Military Bases & Installations, and fishing harbours to Agriculture & Food Infrastructure, under Fisheries & Aquaculture.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Maritime Infrastructure) with the same identifier, narrowed to commercial ports and terminals; inland waterways were separated into their own capability.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/CFTZYJQQ0X", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "container port throughput", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "port call turnaround time", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "liner shipping connectivity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Air Infrastructure", "description": "Air infrastructure encompasses airports, airfields, heliports and related facilities that enable air transport, including runways, terminals, cargo facilities, air navigation and air traffic control systems, and civil aviation maintenance hangars.", "boundary_conditions": "Routine civil aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities at airports sit here, while spaceports, aerospace manufacturers' flight-test and integration facilities, and military airbases belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; air navigation, cargo and maintenance facilities named, and the boundary with spaceports and military airbases made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/J0ETT3C91N", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "airport passenger and freight throughput", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "runway and terminal capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international route connectivity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Inland Waterways & Ferries", "description": "Inland waterways and ferries covers river and lake transport infrastructure, including inland ports, jetties, locks, navigation channels and ferry terminals.", "boundary_conditions": "Ferry terminals sit here even on coastal routes, except where they form part of a commercial seaport, in which case they are classified with the port.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, separated from the v0.0 maritime capability; inland waterway transport is financed, regulated and managed as a distinct network from ocean shipping.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "navigable inland waterway length", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "inland waterway freight volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Rail Infrastructure", "description": "Rail infrastructure covers railway lines, stations, marshalling yards, depots and signalling, including mainline, heavy-haul, metro and light rail systems.", "boundary_conditions": "Mine-to-port heavy-haul railways sit here even when privately owned by a mining company, while their port terminals follow the Seaports & Terminals rule. Inland container depots and dry ports belong to Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Land/Multimodal Connectivity capability; rail is separately regulated, financed and tracked from road in all jurisdictions.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "rail network length and electrified share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "rail freight and passenger volumes", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "high-speed rail route length", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Roads & Bridges", "description": "Roads and bridges covers the strategic road network and its major fixed assets, including highways and trunk roads, major bridges, tunnels, interchanges, toll plazas and bus rapid transit corridors.", "boundary_conditions": "The register records named structures and corridors rather than every road segment. Border posts belong to Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1, from the split of the v0.0 Land/Multimodal Connectivity capability, separating the road network from rail and from the multimodal integration layer.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "paved road density", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "road condition rating", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "motorway network length", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure", "description": "Logistics, multimodal and border infrastructure covers the facilities that connect transport modes and cross borders, including dry ports, inland container depots, freight terminals, logistics parks, bonded warehouses, postal and courier sorting and distribution centres, and one-stop border posts.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers transport-oriented hubs; manufacturing-oriented industrial parks and special economic zones belong to Advanced Manufacturing, under Supply Chain & Ecosystem, with mixed sites classified by primary function. Postal and courier infrastructure sits here rather than under communications, reflecting its logistics function. Border posts sit here even though they house police and customs functions.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Land/Multimodal Connectivity) with the same identifier, refocused on the integration layer after rail and road were separated; postal and courier sorting and distribution infrastructure added, consistent with the NIS2 postal and courier services sector.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/0SCVCXFM01", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "logistics performance score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "intermodal terminal capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average border crossing time", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Communications & Digital Infrastructure", "description": "Communications & Digital Infrastructure comprises the fixed, mobile, international and broadcast networks on the ground, and the data centre, compute, data and AI systems built on them, that together deliver connectivity and the storage, processing and application of data at scale.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers ground networks that deliver communications services and the compute, data and AI layer built on them. Satellites on orbit and facilities that operate spacecraft belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence; broadcast studios are content production rather than infrastructure; enterprise server rooms are recorded with their host organisation. Within the group, networks that move data are distinguished from facilities that store and process it.", "order_logic": "Capabilities ascend the stack: international connectivity, national backbone, access networks and broadcast, then the compute layer, the data layer and the intelligence layer.", "version_changes": "Merged in v0.1 from the v0.0 Communications and AI & Digital groups, carrying the Communications identifier with the AI & Digital group code retired. The merge mirrors the UK's September 2024 designation of data infrastructure as Critical National Infrastructure managed as a sub-sector of Communications, and the EU CER Directive's single digital infrastructure sector. Capabilities were resegmented along regulatory licence categories (fixed, mobile, international gateway, broadcast), and satellites moved to the space group.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/M28F098G1Q", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Subsea Cables & International Gateways", "description": "Subsea cables and international gateways covers international connectivity infrastructure, including submarine cable systems and their landing stations, cross-border terrestrial fibre links, international gateway facilities, and commercial satellite gateways and teleports.", "boundary_conditions": "Commercial teleports delivering communications services sit here, while telemetry, tracking and command stations that operate spacecraft belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under Ground Segment & Tracking. Cross-border electricity interconnectors belong to Energy Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; international gateway is a distinct licence category in most telecommunications regimes, and submarine cable protection has become a first-order infrastructure security concern for governments and NATO.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "international submarine cable landings", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international bandwidth per capita", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "route diversity of international connectivity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Core & Backbone Networks", "description": "Core and backbone networks covers fixed and interconnection infrastructure, including national and metropolitan fibre routes, long-haul microwave links, exchanges, fixed access networks and internet exchange points.", "boundary_conditions": "Long-haul microwave backbone sits here, while mobile access sites and their backhaul belong to Mobile & Wireless Networks. Telephone exchange buildings sit here rather than under data centres. Internet exchange points sit here, consistent with their designation as essential digital infrastructure services under the EU CER framework.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Core Networks & Connectivity) with the same identifier, narrowed to fixed and interconnection infrastructure after mobile and international connectivity were given their own capabilities.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/JF1VKWY10T", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "fibre backbone route length", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "fibre-to-premises coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average fixed broadband speed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Mobile & Wireless Networks", "description": "Mobile and wireless networks covers cellular and wireless access infrastructure, including towers and masts, base stations, small cells, rooftop sites and public wireless access.", "boundary_conditions": "Shared towers carrying both mobile and broadcast equipment are classified by primary licensee, with dedicated broadcast masts under Spectrum & Broadcasting. Satellite gateway earth stations belong to Subsea Cables & International Gateways.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; the fixed and mobile split follows standard telecommunications regulatory licence categories.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "population covered by latest-generation mobile networks", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 people", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "average mobile network speed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Spectrum & Broadcasting", "description": "Spectrum and broadcasting covers terrestrial broadcast transmission and spectrum management infrastructure, including television and radio transmitter sites, digital terrestrial television networks and spectrum monitoring stations.", "boundary_conditions": "Spectrum allocations themselves are intangible and excluded at domain level; the assets recorded here are physical transmission and monitoring facilities. Studios and content production are excluded, and shared masts follow the primary-licensee rule.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Spectrum & Satellites) with the same identifier; satellites moved to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under Satellites & Orbital Systems, and broadcasting made explicit.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/ZX2K1R5K27", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "licensed spectrum assigned for mobile use", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "broadcast transmission coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Data Centres, Compute & Cloud", "description": "Data centres, compute and cloud comprises the physical and virtual facilities that store, process and distribute data, including colocation and hyperscale data centres, cloud regions and edge nodes, high-performance computing centres, AI training clusters, and national cybersecurity facilities such as CERTs, security operations centres and cyber ranges.", "boundary_conditions": "Telephone exchanges belong to Core & Backbone Networks even where they host equipment racks, and edge compute nodes sit here even when located at telecommunications sites. National cybersecurity facilities sit here; the intangible services they provide are not separately registered.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Compute & Cloud Infrastructure) with the same identifier; merged with the v0.0 Data Centers & Digital Platforms capability (retired) to give data centres a single home, and national cybersecurity facilities added. Data infrastructure is designated UK Critical National Infrastructure (2024) and data storage or processing is a sector under Australia's SOCI Act.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/MJ96YCN410", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "data centre capacity in operation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "installed high-performance compute capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "domestically hosted cloud region availability", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Data Resources", "description": "Data resources refer to the large collections of data and the frameworks for managing and utilising data as strategic assets, including national datasets and registries, data governance frameworks, and national domain name infrastructure such as country-code top-level domain registries.", "boundary_conditions": "Country-code top-level domain registries and national DNS infrastructure sit here, consistent with DNS and top-level-domain services being named essential services of the EU digital infrastructure sector; internet exchange points belong to Core & Backbone Networks. The buildings housing registries and statistical agencies belong to Social Infrastructure, under Government & Public Administration.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; national domain name infrastructure added, reflecting the EU CER and NIS2 treatment of DNS and top-level-domain services as essential digital infrastructure.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/ZTYV5QD91G", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "open government data availability score", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "national dataset coverage of core registers", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "AI Tools & Applications", "description": "AI tools and applications are software and systems that leverage artificial intelligence techniques to perform tasks such as analysis, prediction, automation and decision-making across domains.", "boundary_conditions": "This capability catalogues largely intangible systems; the physical facilities on which models are trained and served belong to Data Centres, Compute & Cloud.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; unchanged in scope and noted as largely intangible.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/WPZ9K6JY19", "level": "capability", "indicators": [] } ] }, { "name": "Financial Infrastructure", "description": "Financial Infrastructure comprises the currency, payment and settlement, and capital market systems that create and move money and enable transactions across the economy.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the systems and dedicated facilities of the monetary and financial system rather than the financial services industry at large; individual bank branches, insurers and fund managers are out of scope. Systems are recorded as assets in their own right, with their hosting facilities classified under Communications & Digital Infrastructure.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the monetary hierarchy: base money and reserves, the payment and settlement plumbing that moves it, then the capital markets built on top.", "version_changes": "New group in v0.1. Banking and financial market infrastructures are separate sectors under the EU CER Directive, and financial services and markets a sector under Australia's SOCI Act; the capability structure follows the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures.", "code": null, "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Currency & Reserves", "description": "Currency and reserves covers the physical infrastructure of base money, including central bank facilities, mints and banknote printing works, cash centres and vaults, and reserve storage.", "boundary_conditions": "Central bank facilities sit here; commercial bank branch networks are not registered as strategic assets. Payment processing systems belong to Payments & Settlement Systems.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; covers the physical base-money estate that no other capability addressed.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "currency in circulation to GDP", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "cash logistics and vault capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Payments & Settlement Systems", "description": "Payments and settlement systems covers the infrastructure through which money moves, including real-time gross settlement systems, national payment switches, automated clearing houses, card and instant payment schemes, and mobile-money platforms.", "boundary_conditions": "The system is the asset: a payment switch is recorded here while the data centre hosting it belongs to Communications & Digital Infrastructure, under Data Centres, Compute & Cloud. Securities settlement belongs to Markets, Exchanges & Depositories.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; payment systems are designated financial market infrastructures under the CPMI-IOSCO Principles and fall within the EU CER financial market infrastructure sector.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "real-time payment transaction volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "payment system availability and uptime", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "settlement value processed to GDP", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Markets, Exchanges & Depositories", "description": "Markets, exchanges and depositories covers capital market infrastructure, including stock and commodity exchanges, central securities depositories, central counterparties and trade repositories.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers financial market infrastructures as defined by the CPMI-IOSCO Principles; the banks and brokers that use them are participants rather than infrastructure. Commodity exchanges sit here even where they trade agricultural products.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; central securities depositories, central counterparties and trade repositories are designated financial market infrastructures under the CPMI-IOSCO Principles.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "securities settlement volume", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "central depository assets under custody", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "exchange system uptime", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Social Infrastructure", "description": "Social Infrastructure includes the health, education, housing and community, government, cultural, and justice and public safety systems that provide essential services and facilities to support societal well-being, cohesion and development.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers facilities delivering services to the population, classified by primary function, so a university teaching hospital is health infrastructure while the university itself is education. Purpose-built military facilities, including military hospitals, belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the arc of essential services: care (health), learning (education), living (housing and community), governing (public administration), gathering (culture and recreation) and protection (justice, public safety and emergency services).", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier. Government & Public Administration and Justice, Public Safety & Emergency Services added, and Cultural, Civic & Recreational renamed and narrowed to Cultural, Community & Recreational after government functions moved to their own capability.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/T9AZV6K00J", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Health Infrastructure", "description": "Health infrastructure includes the facilities, equipment and organisational structures that deliver healthcare services, including hospitals, clinics, health posts, pharmacies, laboratories, blood banks, public health institutes and national medical stockpiles.", "boundary_conditions": "Teaching hospitals sit here while medical schools belong to Education & Skills Infrastructure. Pharmaceutical factories belong to Advanced Manufacturing, veterinary facilities to Agriculture & Food Infrastructure, under Livestock & Veterinary, and military hospitals to Space, Aerospace & Defence.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; laboratories, blood banks, public health institutes and national medical stockpiles named, the latter reflecting health-security stockpiling practice within healthcare and public health sector designations.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/KDJVX49W2G", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "hospital beds per 1,000 population", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "diagnostic imaging units per million", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "primary care facility density", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Education & Skills Infrastructure", "description": "Education and skills infrastructure encompasses the institutions and facilities that provide education, skills development and public research, including schools, universities, technical and vocational training centres and research institutes.", "boundary_conditions": "Public research institutes sit here unless a sector-specific home exists, so an aerospace research centre belongs to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under R&D & Testing Facilities. University teaching hospitals belong to Health Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; public research routed here consistent with the higher education and research sector under Australia's SOCI Act.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/0APGVQ520X", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "school places relative to school-age population", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "classroom condition and connectivity rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "tertiary campus and laboratory capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Housing, Community & Social Services", "description": "Housing, community and social services infrastructure comprises public and affordable housing, community facilities and the support systems for social services that improve social welfare and quality of life.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers public and social housing programmes and community facilities, including humanitarian sites such as refugee camps where recorded; the private housing market is excluded at domain level.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; humanitarian sites noted and the private-market exclusion aligned with the domain exclusions.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/B6KQQNDA1G", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "housing stock per 1,000 population", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "overcrowding rate", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "social housing share", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Government & Public Administration", "description": "Government and public administration infrastructure includes the facilities and systems through which the state governs, including parliaments and legislatures, ministries and government headquarters, provincial and local government offices, national archives and civil registration facilities, election infrastructure and the diplomatic estate.", "boundary_conditions": "Election infrastructure, including electoral commission facilities and result transmission systems, sits here. Courts belong to Justice, Public Safety & Emergency Services, purpose-built military command facilities to Space, Aerospace & Defence, and government data holdings to Communications & Digital Infrastructure, under Data Resources, while the registry offices themselves sit here.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1. Government facilities are a designated sector in the US framework (Government Services and Facilities), public administration a sector under the EU CER Directive, government a UK CNI sector, and continuity of government the first of NATO's baseline resilience requirements; election infrastructure is included consistent with its 2017 designation as a US critical infrastructure subsector.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [] }, { "name": "Cultural, Community & Recreational Infrastructure", "description": "Cultural, community and recreational infrastructure includes museums, libraries, theatres, parks, stadiums, community centres, convention centres and public markets that support cultural life, recreation and community cohesion.", "boundary_conditions": "Government administrative buildings belong to Government & Public Administration, and courts and prisons to Justice, Public Safety & Emergency Services. Stadiums and convention centres sit here, while hotels, shopping centres and casinos are excluded at domain level as commercial facilities. Wholesale food markets belong to Agriculture & Food Infrastructure, under Storage, Cold Chain & Markets; general community markets sit here. Places of worship are excluded.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Cultural, Civic & Recreational Infrastructure) with the same identifier; renamed and narrowed after government functions moved to Government & Public Administration, with commercial facilities recorded as a deliberate exclusion rather than an omission.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/PN3916F52M", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "museums and libraries per 100,000 population", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "sports and recreation facility density", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Justice, Public Safety & Emergency Services", "description": "Justice, public safety and emergency services infrastructure includes courts, prisons, police and fire stations, ambulance and emergency medical stations, disaster management and emergency operations centres, civil coastguard facilities, and hydrometeorological and early-warning infrastructure including weather radar networks and seismic and tsunami monitoring stations.", "boundary_conditions": "Ambulance stations sit here while hospital emergency departments belong to Health Infrastructure. One-stop border posts belong to Transport Infrastructure, under Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure, even though they house police and customs. Hydrometeorological and early-warning infrastructure sits here, while satellite ground stations receiving Earth observation data belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence, under Ground Segment & Tracking. Military installations belong to Space, Aerospace & Defence.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1. Emergency services are designated sectors in both the US and UK frameworks; hydrometeorological and early-warning infrastructure added consistent with the WMO Early Warnings for All initiative and disaster-risk-reduction practice.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "emergency service response time", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "fire and rescue station coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "court and custodial facility capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Space, Aerospace & Defence Infrastructure", "description": "Space, Aerospace & Defence Infrastructure encompasses the research, manufacturing, launch, orbital and ground-segment systems of the space and aerospace sector, together with the defence estate.", "boundary_conditions": "Orbital assets are attributed to their owning or operating state regardless of location. Ground infrastructure divides by function: facilities delivering communications services belong to Communications & Digital Infrastructure, while facilities operating spacecraft sit here. Purpose-built military assets of any kind sit in this group under the sector-override rule, while dual-use civilian assets keep their civilian classification.", "order_logic": "Capabilities follow the system lifecycle: research and testing, manufacturing, launch, operation on orbit, operation on the ground, and finally the defence estate that protects, and is protected by, the rest.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Aerospace Infrastructure) with the same identifier; renamed and broadened to cover orbital systems, the ground segment and the defence estate. Space is designated critical infrastructure in the UK (2015), under the EU CER Directive and under Australia's SOCI Act (space technology), and the defence industrial base is designated in the US, UK and Australian frameworks; the defence estate extends coverage beyond civilian designation regimes by deliberate choice.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/HTRWD1F80K", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "R&D & Testing Facilities", "description": "R&D and testing facilities covers laboratories and test infrastructure for aerospace and defence research and development, including wind tunnels, engine test stands, thermal-vacuum chambers, materials laboratories and defence research and test establishments.", "boundary_conditions": "Launch and flight-test ranges belong to Launch, Maintenance & Support, and general public research institutes to Social Infrastructure, under Education & Skills Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; defence research and test establishments absorbed under the sector-override rule, and launch and flight-test ranges explicitly assigned to Launch, Maintenance & Support.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/Z63YY68Y2C", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "major test and evaluation facilities in operation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "wind tunnel and range capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Manufacturing Facilities", "description": "Manufacturing facilities covers the industrial sites that produce aerospace and defence systems, including aircraft, satellite and launcher factories, assembly, integration and test cleanrooms, specialised component plants, and weapons and munitions production facilities.", "boundary_conditions": "General factories that supply aerospace and defence among other sectors belong to Advanced Manufacturing, under Production Systems; sites are classified by primary output. Munitions storage belongs to Military Bases & Installations.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; broadened to defence systems production, consistent with defence industrial base designations in the US, UK and Australian frameworks.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/V6Q9C8KB2G", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "aerospace and defence production floor space", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "shipyard and aircraft line capacity", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Launch, Maintenance & Support", "description": "Launch, maintenance and support covers spaceports, launch pads and integration facilities at the launch site, flight-test and launch ranges, tracking and range-safety systems, and support services for launch operations.", "boundary_conditions": "Flight-test and launch ranges sit here, while laboratory and component test facilities such as wind tunnels belong to R&D & Testing Facilities. Routine civil aviation maintenance belongs to Transport Infrastructure, under Air Infrastructure.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; flight-test and launch ranges explicitly assigned here to resolve overlap with R&D & Testing Facilities.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/74F643FG2G", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "operational launch complexes", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "annual launch cadence supported", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "depot maintenance throughput", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Satellites & Orbital Systems", "description": "Satellites and orbital systems covers spacecraft on orbit, including communications, Earth observation, navigation and scientific satellites, constellations, hosted payloads and space station modules.", "boundary_conditions": "A national communications satellite sits here while the teleports serving it belong to Communications & Digital Infrastructure, under Subsea Cables & International Gateways. Launch vehicles are products rather than fixed assets and are excluded, and retired spacecraft are recorded by status rather than removed.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; orbital assets were previously absent from the taxonomy. The EU's proposed Space Act extends resilience requirements to space-based assets, complementing the CER Directive's coverage of terrestrial space infrastructure, and space-sector designations in the UK and Australia encompass space systems.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "operational satellites in orbit", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "satellites by mission class", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Ground Segment & Tracking", "description": "Ground segment and tracking covers the ground infrastructure that operates spacecraft, including telemetry, tracking and command stations, mission control centres, satellite data receiving stations, space situational awareness sensors and geodetic reference networks.", "boundary_conditions": "Earth observation downlink and spacecraft operations facilities sit here, while commercial teleports delivering communications services belong to Communications & Digital Infrastructure, under Subsea Cables & International Gateways.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; separates spacecraft-operations ground infrastructure from commercial communications teleports, following the standard industry division of space systems into space segment, ground segment and launch segment.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "ground stations operated", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "tracking network coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Military Bases & Installations", "description": "Military bases and installations covers the defence estate, including army, naval and air bases, barracks, training areas, munitions and fuel depots, and radar and early-warning sites.", "boundary_conditions": "All purpose-built military assets sit here regardless of function under the sector-override rule; the defence industrial base belongs to Manufacturing Facilities and R&D & Testing Facilities within this group, and dual-use civilian assets keep their civilian classification.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1; brings the defence estate into scope under a sector-override rule, complementing the defence industrial base capabilities and deliberately extending beyond civilian critical infrastructure regimes, which typically designate defence industry rather than the military estate.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "domestic base and installation footprint", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "overseas bases and access arrangements", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] } ] }