Critical infrastructure protection has become a topic of increasing interest in military and civilian socio-professional communities and, in particular, NATO and the EU, taking in consideration that the threats addressing to security are increasingly complex. In this context, research and education are important actors in the design of advanced integrated solutions for solving the subsumed problems. Besides, in the Horizon Framework Programme 2020' content are set as areas of interest the "smart grid" critical infrastructure protection type and resilience to the "smart meters" threats type. This is the general framework related to the proposed article, with the intention that its approach to become subject for a research project in future competitions, necessity supported by the fact that Land Forces Academy is the only higher education institution organizing a postgraduate course in the field, designed in accordance with existing national occupational standards. Specifically, the paper presents a possible way ahead to be implemented for increasing the functionality of a simulation laboratory for managerial decision on critical infrastructure protection field which helps to assess key points and risks of different infrastructure systems. Primary, we appreciate the need for modeling of interactions that occur between different critical infrastructures. There are highlighted existing software in the field and it is explained the utility of the best of them to be used in relation to the objectives of taken approach. Simulated enterprise represents the same idea that produces beneficial effects in polytechnic education. Similarly, it will be replicated the structures and decision-making areas corresponding to ten types of infrastructure sectors regulated at national level and a crisis management center, aiming to ensure technical, systemic and operational interoperability for scenarios that create cascading effects. Such as, it could be provided modern opportunities for practice of the procedures, for analysis and for designing the appropriate solutions based on tools and techniques of advanced knowledge.

critical infrastructures, simulation, educational capability