What's better than diagnosis?

Steve Flynn writes a great book about how America's in dire need of infrastructure upgrades WRT civil defense and disaster response.

Steve DeAngelis invents himself an enterprise resilience maturity model approved by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (where he's a visiting scientist), gets himself a fistful of patents for the associated technology, and signs a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Oak Ridge National Lab (where he's also a visiting scientist) to turn their famous SensorNet into the next-generation ResilienceNet, profiled in Esquire's December "Best & Brightest" issue.

And yeah, Steve's working on a book of his own.

Cool to diagnose.

Cooler to fix.

And yes, that's why I'm with Enterra and not some think tank.

Comments

[Michael]

The illness is identified; the course of treatment known, pharmacy is just down the street: what happens when the insurance rejects your claim (so to speak)?

Good ideas all, but a majority of 535 souls (+1) have to chop off at some point down the road for much of this to come to fruition (the pure privately-owned stuff notwithstanding). Meaningful progress on infrastructure resilience from the people who can only be bothered to fight for funding for bridges and railroads to nowhere?

Although I suppose there is something to be said for being in position after things break with a solution too . . .