Comments on: House Homeland Subcommittee Sheds Light on Resilience http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/05/15/house-homeland-subcommittee-sheds-light-on-resilience/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Bob Radvanovsky http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/05/15/house-homeland-subcommittee-sheds-light-on-resilience/#comment-116660 Bob Radvanovsky Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:26:27 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/05/15/house-homeland-subcommittee-sheds-light-on-resilience/#comment-116660 Both DHS and Defense have been reviewing a concept entitled 'fragility', which originally dealt with the fragileness of a bridge or span. This concept applies to just about given system, and implies exactly what it states. My partner, Allan McDougall, and myself, have written a whitepaper on this very topic. Resiliency interfaces with fragility in this regards, as we're dealing with the fragileness of capacity of a given system. The whitepaper may be found here: http://www.infracritical.com/papers/wp-ic-005.pdf Both DHS and Defense have been reviewing a concept entitled ‘fragility’, which originally dealt with the fragileness of a bridge or span. This concept applies to just about given system, and implies exactly what it states.

My partner, Allan McDougall, and myself, have written a whitepaper on this very topic. Resiliency interfaces with fragility in this regards, as we’re dealing with the fragileness of capacity of a given system.

The whitepaper may be found here:
http://www.infracritical.com/papers/wp-ic-005.pdf

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