The nation’s critical infrastructure is vital to carrying out the nation’s military strategy, a senior Defense Department official told technology vendors Tuesday. Just as the United States usually targets other nations’ infrastructures when it is at war, so have potentially hostile nations planned to attack infrastructures in the United States, said Jeffrey Robert Gaynor, special assistant for homeland security in the Defense Department’s Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security and Information Operations. “No one attacks their opponent’s strengths,” he said at a breakfast meeting sponsored by FSI, a McLean, Va.-based IT market research and consulting firm. Full Story