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Evolution of Sandia's Risk Assessment Methodology for Water and Wastewater Utilities (RAM-W™)

Jaeger, Calvin D.; Hightower, Marion M.; Torres, Teresa M.

The initial version of RAM-W was issued in November 2001. The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act was issued in 2002 and in October 2002, version 2 of RAM-W was distributed to the water sector. In August 2007, RAM-W was revised to be compliant with specific RAMCAP® (Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection) requirements. In addition, this version of RAM-W incorporated a number of other changes and improvements to the RAM process. All of these RAM-W versions were manual, paper-based methods which allowed an analyst to estimate security risk for their specific utility. In September 2008, an automated RAM prototype tool was developed which provided the basic RAM framework for critical infrastructures. In 2009, water sector stakeholders identified a need to automate RAM-W and this development effort was started in January 2009. This presentation will discuss the evolution of the RAM-W approach, capabilities and the new automated RAM-W tool (ARAM-W which will be available in mid-2010). © 2010 ASCE.