Transcript Planning for the Unexpected Research Organization and Mechanisms

Planning for the Unexpected …
Research Organization & Mechanisms
Dr. Mel Ciment
Consultant
[email protected]
301-622-5984
Technologies to enable
an adaptable infrastructure
An effective global response capability must interoperate
between the private sector resources distribution chain and the
US, State governments and other sources
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Plan research program on a model of a ubiquitous private sector
IT-based supply chain model
IT-based service and product delivery infrastructure for a flexible
global economic system, mobile applications,…
Build in trust: an effective global system must provide a high level
of security and privacy assurance
Test policy based dynamic configurations
Research Agenda
... Planning for the Unexpected
 Asset Inventory
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Risk assessment of human, physical transactional; GIS tools
 Scenario Building
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Cascade analysis, modeling-simulation, timeliness,
 Information Systems
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Interoperability, access to critical data, sensor architecture/availability,
legacy systems, robustness, privacy/security, grid computing,fault
tolerance, data mining, flexibility, scaling,..
 Organizational Architecture-Orgware
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Decision response hierarchy, autonomous policy based -- active
reasoning, communications-feedback,…
 Research Modalities
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Individual grants, Pilots, Testbeds, Centers, Budgets
Critical Technologies Assessment
Conduct assessment of critical enabling
technologies-Roadmap:
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Trusted IT systems with Privacy and Security
High performance dynamic information
infrastructure
Dynamic IT mobile applications deployed globally
Ubiquitous advanced sensors, bio-nano-scale
technologies, wireless, grid computing, scaling, ….
National Testbeds, Enabling Centers
and Pilots
 Develop, test, integrate, and evaluate new capabilities in
realistic settings, National Pilots, Testbeds, and Centers
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Individual researcher grants are critical, but this will require
large scale testing
 Establish collection of free-standing community pilots
and testbeds throughout all sectors of government,
industry, academia, emphasizing IT-based services
 Scope out the research infrastructure that will promote
advanced research participation/investment by all
sectors
Technology Transfer Mechanisms
Overall strategy based on the progressive transition of pilots
and testbeds into future systems
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Promote partnership between industry, universities and local and
national governmental units
Open Technology Roadmap forums to hasten and promote global
adoption
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Involve young students at all stages of the research, testing and
evaluation enterprise to speed adoption of emerging technologies
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Identify and update Critical Technologies List
Conduct scenario competitions, award prizes, fellowships, etc
Spin off technologies and policies will enable progressive deployment
to improve IT support for all citizen services