Josh Sparber, an A+ student in high school biology, still faithfully remembers much of what he learned at that time. In 1974, he received a B.S. in Biology from SUNY inspired by work going on at that time in genetics. Since then, he changed course to work in the electronics industry, 1980–2000. After earning an MSEE from Cal State Fullerton 1999, he familiarized himself with the practice of System Engineering for almost 20 years with the US Department of Defense. Mr. Sparber’s current focus is on working with the Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group of INCOSE in researching pathways to sustaining our critical infrastructures. He is now combining some of his past endeavors to pursue independent research to open up new insights for protecting humanity’s precious critical infrastructures.
Of late and during the last century, hospitals around the world and within the US have withstood war, floods, bad weather, bad actors and other adverse circumstances. An adverse circumstance with great potential for harm is the growing scourge of pandemics. The use of Lean Agile methods, incorporating the concept of antifragility, can be used to design systems responsive to reducing pandemic threats. Further modeling concepts can be integrated into this modeling schema. System Dynamics can describe highly nonlinear and complex resource paradigms within SysML parametric blocks. SysML Trade Study blocks can enfold alternative biochemical cures into the models.
