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NDSSL Project Presented on Capitol Hill |
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The Comprehensive National Incident Management System being
developed by the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) for
the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was presented at a technology forum
in March 2008, held by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Professor Chris Barrett, NDSSL Director, is the lead on this project which applies high-performance computing-based decision and policy informatics to simulate and study pandemics and other catastrophic events, natural or man-made.
The Comprehensive National Incident Management System provides those
involved in disaster management in the United States military with
essential detailed operational information about the populations being
affected by a possible crisis. The forum, which took place at the
Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., was organized by
the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and was chaired
by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. For more details, see this press release from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
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