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Department of Strategic Continuity
The Department of Strategic Continuity conducts research into systemic risks, advanced computational technologies, and the long-term preservation of human knowledge and cognition.
Established on 12 January 2026, the Department of Strategic Continuity is the federal research department responsible for understanding the systemic risks facing modern civilization and for developing the scientific and technical foundations needed to preserve human knowledge — and, eventually, human cognition — across periods of severe disruption.
The Department's five research divisions study interconnected threats to critical systems, evaluate advanced computational technologies, and pursue long-horizon research in computational neuroscience and information preservation. Its work is carried out at headquarters and at three Continuity Research Facilities in Nevada, Colorado and Alaska, and is subject to independent scientific and ethical review.
Mission and values · Organizational history · Departmental structure
NCRP
A staged, multi-decade research program investigating whether human cognition could eventually be represented, reconstructed and sustained on computational systems, beginning with acquisition standards, small-organism emulation benchmarks, a research ethics framework and the Neural Data Preservation Framework.
ISMP
Develops, validates and operates the Integrated Civilizational Systems Model (ICSM), the Department’s coupled model of 11 global systems, and produces the ensemble projections published in the Civilizational Systems Outlook series.
FSEP
Evaluates the capabilities, failure modes and infrastructure dependencies of frontier computational systems, with a focus on where advanced AI has become embedded in the control of energy, communications, finance and logistics.
CII
Designs, builds and operates the Department’s three Continuity Research Facilities, and conducts engineering research on computational and archival infrastructure intended to remain serviceable over decades.
LDIPP
Researches and operates methods for keeping digital and analog records intact, readable and interpretable for a century or more, including storage that survives long periods without power or active maintenance.
LTFP
Develops methods for reasoning and deciding under deep uncertainty over multi-decade horizons, evaluates the Department’s own forecasts, and supports continuity planning across the Department.
Featured assessment · Office of Strategic Risk Assessment
DSC-TR-2026-014 · Released 15 October 2026 · Technical Report
The Department's first systems outlook combines eleven coupled models of energy, food, water, finance, supply chains, computation and governance to assess the stability of critical global systems over the coming decade. Its central finding — that modern civilization faces a high likelihood of severe systemic breakdown before 2035 — is presented with its methods, assumptions and uncertainties in full.
DSC-WP-2026-012Working Paper
Office of Long-Term Systems Research
DSC-TR-2026-011FrameworkDraft for Comment
Directorate of Neural Continuity
DSC-TR-2026-010Technical Report
Office of Strategic Risk Assessment
DSC-TR-2026-009Technical Report
Directorate of Neural Continuity
Publication Notice
The Office of Strategic Risk Assessment has released DSC-TR-2026-014, the Department’s first Civilizational Systems Outlook, presenting ensemble projections of systemic stress through 2035 from the Integrated Civilizational Systems Model.
Publication Notice
The Directorate of Neural Continuity has released Version 0.9 of the Neural Data Preservation Framework (DSC-TR-2026-011) as a draft for comment. Comments will be accepted until 15 December 2026.
Program Update
The Continuity Infrastructure Initiative has been expanded to include Continuity Research Facilities Bravo and Charlie, bringing all three of the Department’s research facilities under a single infrastructure research program.
CRF-A
Neural computation and high-performance computing
The Department's primary computing site. Facility Alpha hosts the ALPHA-1 system, runs production ensembles of the Integrated Civilizational Systems Model, and carries the Neural Continuity Research Program's emulation benchmark suite. Initial operating capability was reached on 18 August 2026.
CRF-B
Underground archival and computational research infrastructure
A subsurface research facility built in a repurposed former hard-rock mine. Facility Bravo holds the Department's primary archive at 140–190 m of rock overburden and is fitting out an 8 MW compute hall for redundant computation and archive verification.
CRF-C
Long-duration information preservation and redundant systems research
A cold-climate preservation site in interior Alaska, designed so that archival media survive more than a century without power. A pilot vault has operated since July 2026, and construction of the main vault is under way with completion planned for 2028.
