In the nine months since President Donald Trump began his second term, the state has taken unprecedented action in the U.S. private sector. The departments of Commerce, Defense, and Energy have

Critical infrastructure protection today means managing geopolitically driven risk targeting those systems, while modernizing legacy environments that weren’t built with those risks in mind. This is especially true of the power grid, which underpins so much about our way of life.

The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Reporters from the NPR Network are digging into the ways the government shutdown is playing out in their region.