CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

The sixteen critical infrastructure sectors defined by the Department of Homeland Security operate under frameworks designed for known threat categories: terrorism, cyberattack, natural disaster, insider threat. None of these frameworks include provisions for persistent unidentified aerial activity that does not match known foreign or domestic platforms, operates in protected airspace without authorization, demonstrates flight characteristics outside established aerodynamic models, and — in documented cases — interferes with sensor systems and operational technology.

Infrastructure operators who experience these events today have nowhere to report them within their sector-specific regulatory frameworks, no guidance from their ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centers), and no design-basis threat that covers what they’re observing. Blackgrove addresses each of these gaps.

Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments Site-specific and sector-level assessments that evaluate critical infrastructure exposure to anomalous aerial activity. We map your physical assets, airspace dependencies, sensor architecture, and operational technology against the documented incursion patterns — and identify where your current security posture has blind spots that conventional threat assessments don’t cover.

Airspace Security Analysis Assessment of the airspace environment around your facilities, including incursion pattern mapping, detection capability evaluation, and coordination gaps between facility security, local law enforcement, FAA, and DoD channels. We identify what you can see, what you can’t, and what reporting mechanisms exist when something enters your airspace that shouldn’t be there.

Design-Basis Threat Integration Advisory services that help infrastructure operators incorporate anomalous aerial threats into their existing design-basis threat frameworks without disrupting current regulatory compliance. We work within your sector’s regulatory language and security architecture — NRC, NERC CIP, TSA, DHS CISA — and build the UAP dimension into frameworks your regulators already understand.

Sensor and Detection Architecture Review Technical assessment of your facility’s detection and monitoring capabilities against the documented characteristics of anomalous aerial objects — including radar cross-section anomalies, electromagnetic interference patterns, and multi-sensor correlation gaps. We identify what your current sensor stack can and cannot capture, and recommend enhancements calibrated to the threat.

Incident Documentation and Reporting Protocols Development of standardized internal protocols for documenting, classifying, escalating, and reporting anomalous airspace events at your facilities. Protocols are designed to integrate with both your existing security operations and the emerging federal reporting channels, ensuring that data is captured to evidentiary standards and routed to the right authorities.

Grid and Energy System Resilience Specialized assessment for energy sector operators — generation, transmission, and distribution — addressing the intersection of anomalous aerial activity with grid stability, SCADA/ICS security, and the DOE’s evolving emergency authorities. Includes analysis of energy disruption scenarios under conditions where multiple infrastructure stressors coincide.

Infrastructure operators across energy, water, transportation, telecommunications, and nuclear sectors. Physical security directors at sensitive facilities. CISA and sector-specific regulatory compliance teams. Utility executives and grid operators. Defense installation security planners. Any operator responsible for a site that has experienced — or could experience — anomalous airspace activity.