Sample Engagements: Past and Present

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As leaders in resilience in airport transportation, DFW Airport was looking for data-driven resilience analytics to guide future decision-making. The need of resilience as a practice was witnessed for the airport when lessons learned from past disruptions such as heat waves and cold snaps guided future decisions.

• RA's stress-testing methodology was employed to take this to the next step by providing the airport with a detailed characterization of their system to better absorb, recover, and adapt to any disruption, regardless of its origin
• This project is still underway, but will guide multi-million dollar decisions within the airport's critical infrastructure to bolster its resilience toward a growing host of disruptors

RA was the selected contractor for building and executing a methodology for resilience stress testing for national critical infrastructure. Through a three-phased contract, RA authored and published the methodology, built Tier 1 and Tier 2 tools and user manuals, created a methodology for developing KPIs, and illustrated the flexibility of the methodology through a case-study of a single asset.

• The methodology and tools developed by RA are currently the preferred methods being utilized at the country level for UNDRR.
• RA's work spearheaded the movement away from scenario-driven stress testing to a threat-agnostic, resilience-driven approach to stress-testing which UNDRR is supplying to many countries.
• With the current Tier 1 and Tier 2 tools, UNDRR was empowered by RA with the ability to structure the vast interdependencies within any country's most critical functions, developing KPIs to guide resilience-thinking at the country level.

RA was selected by the OECD to review and analyze modes of stress testing for financial institutions and supply chains. Work in this contract is still ongoing, but RA has discovered a common approach of scenario-driven stress testing within financial institutions, which is restricted in its ability to inform decision-makers on the responsiveness of financial subsystems.

• We are proposing for financial systems, such as the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund, to move to resilience stress-testing for a deeper analysis of interdependencies and cascading disruption which have prominently infiltrated large banks within the past two decades.
• RA's work will build off these scenario analyses and further nudge financial institutions and supply chains to look inward, identifying the most critical components of the financial system to improve resilience at the link-and-node levels.
• This work has the potential to change stress-testing within the financial marketplace, putting the work done by RA center-stage.

Resilience Stress Testing and Recommendations for Mineral Supply Chain Improvement 

• RA conducted a analytics & mapping review and analyzed data pertinent to mineral supply chain and relevant risks map supply chain of critical knowledge graph analytics and supply chain stress testing. 
• Identified supply chain dependencies via Visual Mappings, Network Analysis, and Knowledge Graphs.
• Resilience stress testing and recommendations for mineral supply chain improvement.
• Financial modeling for assessing supply chain disruption monetary impact.