I have found a cluster of valuable information about the nations Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR), National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and DHS Critical Infrastructure Protection. Secretary Napolitano recently met with private sector leaders to discuss the importance of our vital assets.

Here is a graduate program in the Center for Infrastructure Protection Report :
"The George Mason University School of Public Policy provides information about the development of a new graduate degree program. This degree, the Executive Masters in Public Policy: Leadership in Critical Infrastructure Protection (EMPP-CIP) was created through the partnership between School of Public Policy and the Center for Infrastructure Protection. They also provide information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cooperative agreement that was recently awarded to them and the Center for Infrastructure Protection."

Digging a little more, I found these helpful links for emergency planners to have a greater understanding of the process and procedures of creating their CIKR information:
The Department of Homeland Security CIKR Asset Protection Technical Assistance Program (CAPTAP)
"The CIKR Asset Protection Technical Assistance Program (CAPTAP) is offered jointly by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) to assist state and local first responders, emergency managers and homeland security officials to understand
The basic tenets of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP),
The value of a comprehensive state and local infrastructure protection program, and
The steps required to develop and implement such a program.
The CAPTAP curriculum also includes instruction on the use of the Automated Critical Asset Management System (ACAMS) as a tool to support infrastructure protection programs."

About the Infrastructure Information Collection Division includes additional information which "IICD equips federal, state, and local governments with tools for the collection, management, and visualization of infrastructure data to support national preparedness, response, and recovery efforts."

To top it off there's a free on-line course available if you click this last link: IS-860.a National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP).