NPS Team Katrina After Action Report and Lessons Learned Document available online. Access by clicking here. This document, in PDF format, is about 5 MB in size and is an informal but very detailed description of the daily events of the NPS Katrina effort, includes the daily SITREPs, information on the network infrastructure, the make-up of the government/industry team and more.

"A Failure of Initiative"
The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. View the full document here (6.2mb, PDF).

NPS Team Katrina SITREPS Available Online
NPS Team Katrina SITREPS available online. Team Situation Reports (SITREPS) are listed here. SITREPS are unclassified and are made available to all visitors. The SITREPs are also included in their entirety in the AAR/LL Document referenced above.

NPS Team Katrina: "Hastily Formed Networks (HFN) to Deploy to Gulf Region"
September 9, 2005. Story by Journalist 2nd Class Chad Runge
Thirteen faculty and students from NPS, led by Prof. Brian Steckler, will be deploying to areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina one or more rapidly deployed portable/mobile networks and other communications in support of DoD's Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) mission and to further NPS's Hastily Formed Networks (HFN) research for Complex Humanitarian Disaster (CHD) missions of DoD.
Read the entire article here.

More Photos Available in the Photo Archive

View the Nemesis location document (PDF, 750k) to see a more detailed map of the area of operations. NPS Team Katrina is currently deployed to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

NPS Team Katrina Photos

From the Field
"I am a member of Pa3 DMAT. We met during our short stay at Hancock Memorial in Bay St Louis. I wanted to thank you for the invaluable services you provided the team in the way of Internet and phone connectivity. I know that as much as we appreciated it, the service you provided the community there was appreciated much more as they cannot expect those services restored for some weeks yet.

With teams such as yours able to quickly provide connectivity in areas such as we were in where so much infrastructure was destroyed with no hope of quick restoration, communities and governments can quickly re-establish communications so vital to recovery.

I hope your program continues to flourish and is given serious consideration as being part of a formal first response to stricken areas of any disaster.

I'm home now and enjoying those things we all take for granted. I hope you guys solved the shower/sanitation problems created when we were ordered out. Maybe someday the mechanisms will be in place where different agencies can work more closely together without all the red tape.

Good luck and stay safe,
George Klinzing, PA3 DMAT"
9/27/2005

"My name is Vincent Scotti Eirene and I am director of a shelter for the homeless in Pittsburgh, PA. I dropped off a load of dry goods: pasta, rice, beans, potatoes and onions at the Waveland Café located in the Fred's parking lot in Waveland, MS. What a mess! The Waveland Café at Fred's was a hub of activity, serving over two thousand meals a day, while also acting as a free store and with lots of basic supplies. While I was there the Naval Postgraduate School team was setting up a tent that housed a satellite modem, wireless laptops and VOIP phones. Since I was told not to bring my laptop and cell phone, your free services proved invaluable to finally get in touch with my wife rebecca and my two girls, caitlin and chenoa. I was also able to get in touch with other relief workers operating in LA and MS.

I hope you will continue to provide these services and even expand the service provided to the victims of Katrina."
9/27/2005