From Inside Business

Researchers at Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center were awarded a $1 million Civic Innovation Challenge grant for a coastal resiliency initiative that will create a platform designed to help displaced vulnerable populations get back into their homes quicker after a severe weather event. The project is one of 17 that will receive funds from the National Science Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy. The money, which totals $15.9 million, is for teams comprising civic partners with ready-to-implement pilot projects that address community-identified challenges. VMASC researchers are developing a convergence, inventory, matching and assignment platform that will be central to Recover Hampton Roads, a nonprofit partnership between ODU and the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. RHR will focus on recovery efforts, primarily in Norfolk and Portsmouth, using the CIMA platform, which will help coordinate converging donated material and volunteers following a storm passing over the region.

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