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BRIEF · shutdown-stabilizer-operational-simulation · April 13, 2026

Operational Simulation

Federal shutdown: payroll continuity in practice

A time-based operational simulation showing how payroll continuity behaves during a federal shutdown. Tracks activation, disbursement, reconciliation, and second-order effects across a 30-day shutdown period.

The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral infrastructure layer for representing sports rights through published RFCs and a versioned reference registry. Additional briefs and whitepapers explore how incentive clarity and structural design shape scalable institutions.

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