Nexus Universe technical office
Nexus Universe is the annual operating, integration, exercise and learning programme of Nexus Consortiums, governed by The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and published on its own website at universe.nexus. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) contributes the technical office: mission scoping, data and method qualification, the Core build, exercise control support and evidence capture. This page describes that scientific and technical contribution and where it stops. Programme governance, editions and participation belong to GRF. Return to GCRI programmes.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Workstream tracker
Nexus Universe technical… · Programme year 3
Workstreams
owner · stage · status
| Evidence label audit | Independent reviewer | Test | M3 · week 20 | At risk |
| National Model build | Independent reviewer | Test | M3 · week 31 | On track |
| Annual mission design | Independent reviewer | Review | M7 · week 31 | Blocked |
| Report edition planning | Competent authority | Test | M4 · week 20 | On track |
| Methods review cycle | National Desk | Scoping | M6 · week 38 | On track |
Effort against plan
person-weeks
Milestones
- W3M1Evidence label audit: scoping note signed
- W16M2Inputs qualified at the gate
- W25M3National Model build: build review
- W29M4Controlled test with observers
- W38M5Publication and decision record
GCRI · Workstream trackerWorkstream tracker, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
The Nexus Universe technical office is GCRI's contribution to the annual programme governed by GRF and published at universe.nexus: mission scoping, data and method qualification, the Core build, exercise control support and evidence capture. The office works through the year, and its outputs are records the programme's governance and evaluators can check.
Scoping to review.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Systemic exposure in Asia.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for Asia as an example geography for this subject.
What the technical office does.
The technical office works through the year, not only in the week of exercises. Its outputs are records that the programme's governance, evaluators and reviewers can inspect.
| Work | What it produces |
|---|---|
| Mission scoping | A mission scope with objectives, data, methods and evaluation questions |
| Qualification | Qualification records for data, methods and contributed resources |
| Core build | Build evidence, measured readiness and known defects for the temporary Core |
| Exercise support | Support to exercise controllers and independent evaluators |
| Evidence capture | Run, decision and observation records sealed for review |
| Closeout | A technical closeout and an improvement backlog |
Mission teams, contributors and hosts.
Mission teams
Qualified teams bringing a mission admitted at gate G1.
Contributors
Computing and network contributors with a resource offer. See Network and Core.
Hosts
Hosts and venues, whose readiness is evidenced before any event is presented as confirmed.
Where the technical office stops.
- GRF governs the programme; the technical office has no governance role.
- Neither membership nor sponsorship secures a compute allocation, and an offer is not an allocation.
- The final stage is a planned stand-down; review, reconciliation and corrections continue afterwards.
- No edition, date or host is shown until its record exists.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Simulation exercise | A practice, training or evaluation activity in which an emergency is described or simulated and participants respond as they would in reality, so that plans and capacities can be tested, as WHO's exercise manual describes. |
| Full-scale exercise | An exercise that deploys people and equipment in the field under realistic conditions. |
| After-action review | A structured discussion after an activity of what was planned, what happened, why, and what to change. |
| Mission theme | A subject a platform proposes for controlled testing in the annual Nexus Universe programme; a theme is a proposal until the programme confirms an exercise. |
Where the programme is published.
The independent programme website is Nexus Universe. Governance and participation are on GRF's Nexus Universe at GRF and Programme governance pages, and the finance-readiness track of The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) on Universe finance-readiness programme. The cycle is described on Annual programme cycle. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
Questions and answers.
Who runs Nexus Universe?
How does a mission get into Universe?
Can my organization contribute computing to Universe?
Is Universe a conference?
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.