Lisa Whelan<\/strong>, will lead the effort to develop the Supply Chain Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Platform (SCRIMP). This project builds on the ground-breaking achievements of the FEWSION group by developing an open-source intelligence (OSINT) data science technology to map and forecast global supply chains.<\/p>\n\u201cThe pandemic and ongoing global conflicts have highlighted the vulnerability of our supply chains, which is why I\u2019ve advocated for advanced technology to deepen understanding and ability to leverage\u00a0these networks,\u201d Sen. Kelly said. \u201cI was glad to help deliver the critical funding for this NAU-led project, and I\u2019ll continue working in the Senate to support special operations and further innovations that will strengthen our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n
The potential applications for this technology include supply chain and critical infrastructure resilience, national defense, homeland security and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic and associated supply chain crises, critical minerals shortage, war in Ukraine and onshoring movement underscore the importance of supply chains for U.S. national security,\u201d Ruddell said. \u201cWe need secure and resilient supply chains, and better information is a key step toward taking the necessary action.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith each crisis we endure as a nation, there are lessons learned and data gathered to help us prepare for the next event,\u201d Whelan said.\u00a0\u201cTaking FEW-View to the next level will provide leaders and decision-makers a critical resource to aid in preparedness and security of supply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n
SCRIMP will address several key limitations of the original FEWSION work, Rushforth said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re moving our work from annual snapshots at the county level that are a couple years old to high-resolution, real-time information to aid planning, forecasting and risk management,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause of this we\u2019ll have to reimagine how we visualize and interact with our data to facilitate informed decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n
FEWSION is a big data project that monitors supply chains. FEWSION was founded by a National Science Foundation grant in 2016, and the original research team launched the nation\u2019s first public supply chain visualization tool, FEW-View, in 2019. FEW-View has supported emergency management and policy response through several hurricanes, a trade war, the western water crisis, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The timely introduction of FEW-View attracted interest from\u00a0the homeland security, defense and policy communities, which led to this new collaboration. SCRIMP will build on the FEW-View technology and move it forward to meet some of the nation’s urgent requirements for better information.<\/p>\n
\u201cFEWSION is an example of the incredible research from NAU that is making the world a better and safer place for all its citizens,\u201d said President Jos\u00e9 Luis Cruz Rivera<\/strong>. \u201cNAU is grateful for the leadership of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly for advocating for funding to the Department of Defense to support the critical issue of supply chain and infrastructure security and resilience and the leadership from so many who have contributed to this project.\u201d<\/p>\nTop photo: A FEW-View map showing from where Arizona’s food, water and energy originated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to the work of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a new project led by Northern Arizona University, with various collaborators throughout the nation, will help the United States better protect the critical supply chain infrastructure and the supply chains that keeps the country and its economy running. Benjamin Ruddell, professor in the School of Informatics,…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":68774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}