UTAH & WYOMING ALLIANCE
Sector Chief Committee
The Sector Chief Committee supports sector-specific intelligence sharing and resilience efforts across Utah and Wyoming, fostering a unified defense network for critical infrastructure.
The Mission: To curate the chapter’s Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and translate it into actionable national security value.
Key Focus Areas
- Critical Infrastructure Coordination
- Threat Intelligence Sharing
- Sector Briefings
Amal Centers, Jr.
Director
Jocelyn Tooley
Deputy Director
Chemical Sector
The Chemical Sector is integral to the global economy, converting raw materials into more than 70,000 diverse products. In Utah and Wyoming, our focus remains on securing facilities that manufacture, store, and transport chemicals essential to water purification, agriculture, and defense. The Sector Chief Committee facilitates collaboration between private industry owners and public agencies to mitigate risks from physical and cyber threats, ensuring the resilience of this complex and vital supply chain.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Commercial Facilities Sector
The Commercial Facilities Sector includes a diverse range of sites that draw large crowds of people for shopping, business, entertainment, or lodging. This sector is primarily privately owned and operated, necessitating close collaboration between government agencies and private sector partners to ensure resilience against physical and cyber threats.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Communications Sector
The Communications Sector is dynamic and encompasses a wide range of terrestrial, satellite, and wireless transmission systems. It is vital to the economy, supporting the operations of all other critical infrastructure sectors. Key focuses include ensuring resilient connectivity, protecting core networks from cyber threats, and fostering rapid information sharing between private providers and government agencies to maintain national security and emergency preparedness.
Sector Chief
Amal Centers, Jr.
Deputy Sector Chief
Javis Darcas
Critical Manufacturing
The Critical Manufacturing Sector is crucial to the economic prosperity and continuity of the United States. A direct attack on or disruption of certain elements of the manufacturing industry could disrupt essential functions at the national level and across multiple other critical infrastructure sectors. This sector includes industries such as Primary Metals Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing, and Transportation Equipment Manufacturing.
Sector Chief
Sherrie Cowley
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Dams Sector
The Dams Sector comprises assets, systems, networks, and functions related to water retention and control structures, including hydroelectric power generation, municipal and industrial water supply, agricultural irrigation, and flood control. This sector is critical to the economic and physical security of Utah and Wyoming, where water management is essential for regional stability and industrial operations. Our Sector Chief and Deputy Sector Chief work closely with dam owners, operators, and regulatory agencies to foster a secure and resilient environment through information sharing and strategic planning.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Defense Industrial Base
The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector is the worldwide industrial complex that enables research and development, as well as design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapons systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet U.S. military requirements. The DIB partnership consists of Department of Defense components, more than 100,000 Defense Industrial Base companies and their subcontractors who perform under contract to the Department of Defense, companies providing incidental materials and services, and government-owned facilities. Our alliance focuses on mitigating supply chain risks and fostering high-trust information sharing.
Sector Chief
Wilfredo Jimenez-Vargas
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Emergency Services Sector
The Emergency Services Sector (ESS) is a community of millions of highly-skilled, trained personnel, along with the physical and cyber resources, that provide a wide range of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery services during day-to-day operations and incident response.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
This sector includes Law Enforcement, Fire and Rescue Services, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Management, and Public Works. These disciplines work together to protect the community and enhance resilience across the Utah and Wyoming regions through joint training and real-time intelligence sharing.
Energy Sector
The Energy Sector is uniquely critical, providing the power that fuels all other infrastructure. This sector includes the production, refining, storage, and distribution of oil, gas, and electric power. Our coordination efforts focus on grid resilience, cybersecurity for industrial control systems, and collaborative threat response between public and private partners in the Utah and Wyoming region.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Financial Services Sector
The Financial Services sector represents a vital component of the nation's critical infrastructure. This sector includes thousands of depository institutions, providers of investment products, insurance companies, and other financial organizations that are essential to the economic security of the United States. Our initiative focuses on enhancing resilience against cyber threats and physical disruptions through collaborative intelligence sharing. Key focus areas within Salt Lake City include coordinating with regional banking leaders, ensuring high-trust communication channels during incidents, and providing sector-specific briefings that address the unique regulatory and operational landscape of mountain west financial markets.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Food and Agriculture Sector
The Food and Agriculture Sector is almost entirely under private ownership and is composed of an estimated 2.1 million farms, 935,000 restaurants, and more than 200,000 registered food manufacturing, processing, and storage facilities. This sector is critical to the nation's economy and the health and safety of its citizens. Our committee focuses on protecting the supply chain from farm-to-table, ensuring resilience against biological, chemical, and physical threats while facilitating high-trust information sharing between government partners and private stakeholders.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Government Facilities Sector
The Government Facilities Sector includes a wide variety of buildings located in the United States and overseas that are owned or leased by federal, state, local, or tribal governments. This sector includes general-use office buildings, special-use military installations, embassies, courthouses, national laboratories, and structures that may house critical equipment, systems, networks, and functions. Our coordination efforts ensure the protection of assets, systems, and the safety of officials and the public.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Healthcare and Public Health Sector
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector is critical to the resilience of our nation's health infrastructure. This sector coordination focuses on protecting against cyber threats to medical systems, ensuring the integrity of the clinical supply chain, and fostering information sharing between public health agencies and private healthcare providers across the Salt Lake City region. Our mission is to mitigate risks that could impact patient safety and community wellness.
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Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Information Technology Sector
The Information Technology Sector is central to the nation's security, economy, and public health and safety. Businesses, governments, academia, and private citizens are increasingly dependent upon Information Technology Sector functions. These virtual and physical assets include hardware, software, and information technology infrastructure and systems as well as the Internet, which is the key mechanism for information and data exchange. Our Sector Chiefs lead initiatives to identify vulnerabilities, share high-trust intelligence, and coordinate response strategies across the Utah and Wyoming regions. We focus on enhancing the resilience of critical networks and fostering collaboration between private industry and public safety partners.
Sector Chief
Taylor Rohm
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector
The Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector is critical to our nation's energy security and environmental safety. This sector includes nuclear power plants, production and research reactors, and the facilities that handle nuclear materials and waste. The SLC InfraGard Members Alliance works closely with sector partners to enhance physical and cybersecurity, share threat intelligence, and ensure the resilience of these high-consequence assets across Utah and Wyoming. Key initiatives focus on protecting against unauthorized access, mitigating insider threats, and securing digital control systems.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Transportation Systems Sector
The Transportation Systems Sector consists of seven subsectors, including pipelines, postal and shipping, aviation, freight rail, mass transit and passenger rail, and highway and motor carrier. This sector is vital to the movement of goods and people across the Utah and Wyoming regions, supporting the local and national economy. Our members work closely with federal and state agencies to identify vulnerabilities and implement resilient security measures against physical and cyber threats.
Sector Chief
Vacant
Deputy Sector Chief
Vacant
Water and Wastewater Systems
The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector is vital to the health and well-being of our communities and the economy. It includes drinking water systems that provide water for consumption and commercial use, and wastewater systems that collect, treat, and discharge treated effluent to protect public health and the environment. Critical initiatives focus on enhancing the physical and cybersecurity of water facilities, developing resilient response plans for natural and man-made disasters, and fostering robust information sharing through the SLC InfraGard alliance. Sector chiefs coordinate with local utilities and government partners to ensure continuous service and rapid recovery.