In an emergency, the country needs answers fast, but today the capacity to produce them is rebuilt from scratch in each crisis. These recommendations build readiness that lasts between emergencies.
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Require every piece of federal emergency guidance to state what it knows, how confident it is, and when it will be revisited.
Build a national emergency research commons that makes the full evidence effort visible in real time.
Build the readiness that lets research start in days instead of months, with surge funding to match.
Create a standing interagency council that maintains readiness between crises.
Establish standing trust and communications preparedness as durable infrastructure.