Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

The problem of important projects surviving political change is a tough one.

A lot of these important projects have a single point of failure - who is the president every four years. I wonder how we build institutions and resources resilient to that?

I realize privatization is an ugly word, but could some of this stuff be provided by the private sector?

Can we make it possible to fund initiatives in a multinational manner where countries contribute to these efforts, but if one country blinks out, then you still have it go along?