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| | S&TR | December 2005: Modeling the Future |
 | | The model is of interest to NNSA personnel with widely different responsibilities, including analysts who develop policies, facility managers who are concerned with building maintenance schedules, budget experts who track staffing projections, and transportation managers who are charged with delivering dismantled warhead components to the appropriate sites on schedule. |
 | | However, the model would also show increased spending for demolition and decontamination because DOE policy states that one square foot of old facilities must be removed for every square foot of new construction. |
 | | The model’s governing equations, similar to those called Lotka–Volterra equations, were originally developed to describe the dynamics of biological populations in which two species, such as predator and prey, interact. |
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