Funding process

KASL testing is funded by the

External Experiment Team (EET).

 

That's you.

 

There is a fee to use KASL, but it's modest, venue-specific, and discussed below.

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The KASL team on Ebeye, in Majuro, and elsewhere, has supportive relationships at academic institutions, within the US government, and in the private sector globally that can often help with identifying funding sources.

 

The KASL team will provide, for a fee, logistics support, including arrangements for transportation, lodging, food, drinking water, repair parts, Marshallese evaluators, and translators for Marshallese, Tagalog, Chamorro, Japanese, and Chinese. 

 

Experiment teams from off-island may be entitled to discounts on each local need.

 

KASL staff may also be able to assist with procuring no-fee Space-A military flights for experimentation teams flying from Honolulu to Kwajalein and back, potentially eliminating long-haul airfare for both humans and cargo. That process is under active policy development for a decision in Q3 of 2025. 

 

The Marshallese will provide local support for testing and evaluation from their perspective, independent of the EET metrics. The KASL Executive Director is Marshallese and, with the Research Director, has oversight of all Marshallese Testing and Evaluation protocols.

 

If desired, the KASL team will provide Resilience metrics in advance for each experiment based on the original webform and subsequent conversations.

 

Please contact Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP, KASL Research Director, for questions and next steps:

RasmussenE@ihs-i.com and +1-360-621-3592