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We've come to understand
just how critical the social networking part of
this is -
not just the technology [part]"
Dr. Linton Wells II,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Networks and Information Integration
September 2006 issue of Signal
"Hastily Formed Networks"
is a term that was coined by Dr. Peter Denning in an article published in Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 4 (2006.) You can read the article here.
NEW Hastily Formed Networks Center Created at NPS
The Cebrowski Institute is pleased to announce the creation of the Hastily Formed Networks Center. While the formal mission of the Center is still under developmenet, it can be summarized as follows: to research and improve the technical and social responses to disasters as they pertain to hastily formed networks of people.To jumpstart this initiative, a new collaborative website has been launched at www.hfncenter.org
NPS
Hurricane Katrina After Action Report Available
"After Action Report and Lessons
Learned from the Naval Postgraduate
School's Response to Hurricane Katrina"
is available for download here.
IS
lecturer Brian Steckler Presents at 5th Annual
Defense Technology Forum
Information Sciences lecturer Brian Steckler
was a panelist at the 5th Annual Defense Technology
Forum in Washington DC in early May. The topic
for the day of meetings was “Exploiting
Technology for the Military in Humanitarian Assistance
and Disaster Relief Operations: Learning from
the Past and Planning for the Future.”
The panel discussion was titled "Ensuring
Swift Response to Catstrophes: Form Aid Coordination
to Infrastructure Rebuilding." Brian Steckler
joined Pete Verga, Principal Depuy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Homeland Defense, OASD (HD) and
Robert Kirkpatrick, Lead Architect, Microsoft
Humanitarian Systems to focus on the lessons learned
from recent humanitarian operations with an emphasis
on technology utilization, communication logistal
coordination and DoD’s deployement of military
resources. They also highlighted exploited technologies
and R&D projects designed to improve capacity,
response and collaboration between stakeholders.
A forum brochure can be downloaded by clicking
here.
(pdf)
Strong
Angel 3
An exercise known as Strong Angel III (SA-III)
will had teams addressing a few of the circumstances
that proved so difficult on the Gulf Coast after
Katrina. The SA-III scenario presented a city
already pressured by a pandemic and under quarantine,
where the normal tasks of the city are not performed
to usual standards. Critical infrastructure was surgically and subtly attacked, resulting in
the comprehensive a cascading and comprehensive
loss of power, telephone systems both wired and
cell, and the commercial internet.
 In
the real world, members of the SAIII Planning
staff have already seen this level of loss in
a domestic community and the effect it had on
both the local population and on response coordination
effectiveness. Examining current options for mitigating
the social and physical risk seems useful.
The system that was created was assessed and
iterated each day, anticipating eventual development
of a design for resilient local communications
that might prove useful as a guide for both requirements
recognition and the methods by which those general
requirements might be effectively and economically
met within a small community. That demonstrated
set of capabilities would then be available to
inform and influence those who may have responsibilities
for larger-scale community disaster preparedness
both domestically and internationally. Information
Sciences lecturer Brian Steckler is on the Executive
Committee and participated in the exercise.
Read the The New York Times article
about Strong Angel III. This
is Only a Drill: In California,
Testing Technology in a Disaster
Response.
For more information visit http://www.strongangel3.org/
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