"...the National Asset Database (NADB) is not a list of critical assets assembled into a database of only those assets (facilities, systems, and infrastructures) deemed 'critical'. The NADB is the primary Federal data repository for analysis and integration required to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the capability to identify, collect, catalog, and maintain a national asset inventory....The NAPB is a continually evolving and comprehensive catalog of the assets that comprise the Nation's infrastructure; containing descriptive information regarding those assets. Since the NAPB is an inventory of assets, it can be queried in many ways that can help inform public and private risk reduction activities across the 17 Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources (CI/KR) sectors. It provides the 'universe' from which various lists of critical assets are produced. The NADB enables a wide-ranging robust risk analysis process that ties asset information, as well as analyses concerning consequence of loss/attack, vulnerability of an asset, system or network, to the threat to those assets, systems, or networks". (DHS/OIG, Progress in Developing the National Asset Database, "Response to Recommendations Contained in the Draft OIG Report" (DHS), June 2006, p. 29) National Applications Office. See: Department of Homeland Security, National Appl. Office