NIST report on Joplin, MO, tornado in May 2011 calls for major changes

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response A year-and-a-half after a tornado devastated Joplin, MO, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a 492-page report of its comprehensive investigation of the weather-related disaster, in which it presented no less than 47 separate “findings” and 16 separate “recommendations” for…

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L-3 Awarded contract to support major USAF cyber initiative

Top Priority Sector:  military_force_protection L-3 Communications announced on August 28 today that its STRATIS division has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract under the Agile Cyber Technology (ACT) program. Supporting the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), ACT has a funding ceiling of $300 million over the next five years….

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Major Oregon earthquake likely in coming years, says study

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption:  Coos Bay, OR An earthquake of the same magnitude that wracked Japan in 2011 could shake the southern Oregon coast in the next few decades, according to a study published by University of Oregon researchers. The study, published online by the U.S….

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Large Volume Predictive Analytics At a Major U.S. Airport

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