FEMA, Katrina, and Operations Research

In the wake of the poor government response to the 2005 Hurricane

Katrina disaster, many questions have been asked about why

the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), along

with a host of other federal, state, and local emergency management

agencies, performed so ineffectively.What went wrong?What is the future

of the agency? How can a recurrence of the Katrina debacle be

prevented?This article explores whether FEMA and other disaster management

agencies may have overlooked the