JASON's 2001 Computer-Modeling Study Later Guided DARPA's Pandemic Programs
JASON, the Pentagon's outside science advisers, filed report JSR-00-130 that June, proposing computer models of cellular biochemical networks for biology research.
- The study came from JASON scientists, not from DARPA's own research staff.
- JSR-00-130, filed in June 2001, proposed modeling cellular biochemical networks by computer.
- DARPA's pandemic programs, including P3 and PREEMPT, adopted that computational method years later.
Why it matters: Twenty years before the pandemic programs existed, a panel nobody elected had already picked their method.
JASON Program (Federation of American Scientists archive) — "Biofutures," JSR-00-130 ↗ · Jul 21, 20267/21/26 · ✓ Checked✓ Check