A wildfire threatening Malibu homes has forced thousands to evacuate, and forecasters warn "very dry air and elevated fire weather conditions would persist" into Wednesday night, even after red flag warnings ended earlier in the day.
The big picture: Santa Ana winds and very low humidity have driven the dire conditions, as hundreds of firefighters tackle the fast-moving Franklin Fire, which was burning out of control across an estimated 4,000-plus acres in Malibu Wednesday.
Threat level: Red Flag warnings ended as powerful Santa Ana winds eased on Wednesday afternoon, but the National Weather Service's Los Angeles office said on X that breezy areas of southwest Santa Barbara County and the San Gabriel Mountains were still under threat amid "very dry" conditions.
The biggest challenge the defense industry faces, according to Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski, sounds a lot like the science problem turned novel turned Netflix series.
"In physics, there's this thing called the three-body problem, right?" he told Axios in an interview.
"We have a three-timeframe problem, which is that, at the same time, we're investing in the technologies of the Cold War, the technologies of today and the technologies of the future."
Why he matters: Rozanski has seen it all at Booz Allen. He started with the company — one of the world's largest defense contractors — in 1991 as a summer intern.
