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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The framework changed with the Budget Control Act in 2011, which led to the emergence of a more focused and proactive funding model from 2012-2020, and a lessened reliance on reactive supplemental appropriations. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year. 1] [link]. [2]

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

Data program must-have: High-capacity storage that can scale and consolidate both structured data and unstructured sensor data. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City emergency management officials realized there were flaws in the city’s data infrastructure. billion by 2026. Creating Digital Twins.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. We know that it is a primeval instinct to panic buy in response to an incident and whatever authorities say will not stop it.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

We all know that supply chains are very fine-tuned and there is very little access capacity within them. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying. We know that it is a primeval instinct to panic buy in response to an incident and whatever authorities say will not stop it.