Investing in infrastructure

Roads or Radar: Investing in Infrastructure or Improved Forecasting in the Face of Hurricane Risk

Given limited funding, should we invest in infrastructure to speed evacuation in an emergency, or in forecasting technology to better predict the timing and intensity of the event? For example, should we build additional evacuation routes along the Gulf Coast of the United States to speed hurricane evacuations or should we improve our ability to forecast the path and intensity of an approaching...

Roads or Radar: Investing in Infrastructure or Improved Forecasting in the Face of Tropical Cyclone Risk

Even with the advanced technology of forecasting and current infrastructure to mitigate the loss from natural hazards, people suffer from devastating hurricanes every year. Although Nature or a natural system creates such storms, humans can still forecast and respond to them. A forecasting system predicts the natural system, and a transportation system reacts to it. The interactions of these hu...

Investing in our Children

Investing in Software Sustainment

In many government weapon systems, sustaining software depends heavily on organic engineering efforts. This is different from hardware sustainment (the more traditional form of sustainment), which often depends heavily on the supply chain and service providers and much less on engineering capability. Because of this shift, a larger portion of sustainment funding needs to be allocated to improvi...

Investing in health.