- The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned (PDF)
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On August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina formed as a tropical storm off the coast of the Bahamas. Over the next seven days, the tropical storm grew into a catastrophic hurricane that made landfall first in Florida and then along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, leaving a trail of heartbreaking devastation and human suffering. Katrina wreaked staggering physical destruction along its path, flooded the historic city of New Orleans, ultimately killed over 1,300 people, and became the most destructive natural disaster in American history.
Thursday, February 23, 2006 - White House Report Investigates the Preparation for and the Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF) Download Attached PDF
A FAILURE OF INITIATIVE - Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - First responders detail emergency communications problems
House lawmakers and emergency responders on Wednesday agreed that more needs to be done to establish emergency communications systems that function across jurisdictions.
A lack of equipment standards, inadequate funding and turf wars among federal, state and local officials have made it increasingly to difficult to achieve interoperable emergency communications, a panel of "first responders" said at a House Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology Subcommittee hearing.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - Our National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (PDF) Download Attached PDF
Although remarkable advances have been made in science and medicine during the past century, we are constantly reminded that we live in a universe of microbes - viruses, bacteria, protozoa and fungi that are forever changing and adapting themselves to the human host and the defenses that humans create.
Influenza viruses are notable for their resilience and adaptability. While science has been able to develop highly effective vaccines and treatments for many infectious diseases that threaten public health, acquiring these tools is an ongoing challenge with the influenza virus. Changes in the genetic makeup of the virus require us to develop new vaccines on an annual basis and forecast which strains are likely to predominate.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - Satellite broadband update - Faster services are coming, cheaper services are here
Space is cool again, right? We're driving robots around Mars, and the President wants NASA to put people on the moon again. So why not get our Internet service from space?
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