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SAIC wins $68 million contract to help CDC implement biosurveillance
CDC to rule out nationwide biosurveillance with the help of SAIC
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Ridge: DHS did not employ disaster plan in Katrina
FEMA’s disaster plan was never implemented — but it was untested, so it is not clear it would have made a difference
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The long view
Why Do Disasters Still Happen, Despite Early Warnings? Because Systems Are Built to Wait for Certainty
Uncertainty cannot be eliminated. The challenge is to decide how much uncertainty is acceptable when lives and livelihoods are at stake. Systems designed to wait for certainty are more likely to deliver warnings that arrive too late to feel like warnings at all. If resilience to future climate risks is to be sustainable, warning systems must be designed to learn, adapt, and act earlier on credible risk.