
Domestic Manufacturing Is Critical to Maintaining Emergency Supplies
Acute shortages of respirators and face masks reveal that our far-flung sourcing of goods is unfit to deal with a prolonged pandemic or other widespread, long-lasting crisis.
BALTIMORE, MD, April 7, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, announced it has awarded USA Cycling its 2025 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics in elite sports performance. With Project 4:05, USA Cycling transformed race strategy and athlete preparation, enabling the Women’s Team Pursuit to win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A bipartisan push in Congress would return the power to impose tariffs to the legislature.
The threat of a terrorist attack on America’s energy grid is growing, with attempts being reported at increasing rates. If it’s not terrorism, it could be adversarial nation-states. This all increases the likelihood that a significant attack on the grid could succeed, leaving large swaths of the U.S. in the dark.
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Acute shortages of respirators and face masks reveal that our far-flung sourcing of goods is unfit to deal with a prolonged pandemic or other widespread, long-lasting crisis.
Tempers are getting short. Supplies of ground beef even shorter. People are looking into each other’s shopping carts. Is that guy really going to use all four cans of chickpeas? That’s a lot of emergency hummus.
A professor with the Stewart school of engineering at Georgia tech, she's with this from Atlanta. Thank you for being with us. We heard the U.S. President on Monday, he's adamant to force the country to reopen. Listen to part of what he said during a regular U.S. Briefing.
OAKLAND, Calif. - America is throwing away massive amounts of perfectly good food, especially meats and produce. It's a problem being highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic: we can't always get food to where it's needed due to logistical problems
Food banks are struggling to meet record demands, but with millions of Americans out of work, record amounts of perfectly good food are being thrown away. KTVU's Tom Vacar looks at the food supply chain and some of its logistical problems.
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