Defense and strategic studies graduate student Jared McKinney co-authored the article “Boosting resilience after storms and disasters” published in USA Today on Aug. 17. He wrote it with his internship supervisor Dane Egli, senior adviser at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory .
They wrote, “A changing climate, natural disasters, the persistent threat of terrorist attacks and the degraded state of America’s infrastructure demand a framework that rethinks the current posture of simply fixing things when they break. Communities, businesses and public leaders should seek to understand the current state of American infrastructure by mapping interdependencies and planning to sustain or quickly restore critical functions when disasters occur. ”
The defense and strategic studies department is located in Fairfax, Va.
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