Information Management and Sharing for National Cyber Situational Awareness

ABSTRACT As technology and access to information increases, so do the expectations by leadership and the public for the highest quality and most current information during a pollution response (USCG, 2010). This demand is essential to the incident's decision-making process and for situational awareness (USCG, 2010, 2011a). The influx of response data generated must be met by savvy teams of information managers who can provide this need in a timely, efficient manner. This process is further complicated by the relationship between government and industry responders, both of whom often have different information management requirements yet need to work cooperatively with the same data (USCG, 2011b). In this paper, information management common themes, successes, and failure points from three case studies including the M/V Cosco Busan oil spill, the Hurricane Sandy pollution response, and the U.S./Canada CANUSLANT oil spill exercise are discussed. Although these incidents and exercise have significant operational differences, the need for efficient dissemination of quality information remains the same.

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Improving emergency responder situational awareness for Incident command systems (ICS) using critical information management, simulation, and analysis

2009 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security ◽

10.1109/ths.2009.5168099 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel O. Rice

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Situational Awareness ◽

Incident Command ◽

Critical Information ◽

Emergency Responder ◽

Command Systems

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Changing the Face of War through Telemedicine and Mobile E-Commerce

Advanced Topics in Database Research, Volume 1 ◽

10.4018/978-1-930708-41-9.ch014 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 267-292

Author(s):

James A. Rodger ◽

Parag C. Pendharkar ◽

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

Situational Awareness ◽

Medical Data ◽

Strategic Decision ◽

Strategic Decision Making ◽

Internet Applications ◽

Web Based ◽

The Face ◽

The Military

The general perspective of this chapter is designed to relate the rationale used by the Department of Defense (DoD) for the military to adapt the principles of e-commerce to Telemedicine to meet increasing global crises, and to find ways to more effectively manage manpower and time. A mobile telemedicine package has been developed by the Department of Defense to collect and transmit near-real-time, far-forward medical data and to assess how this Web-based capability enhances medical management of the battlespace. Telemedicine has been successful in resolving uncertain organizational and technological military deficiencies and in improving medical communications and information management. The deployable, mobile teams are the centerpieces of this telemedicine package. These teams have the capability of inserting essential networking and communications capabilities into austere theaters and establishing an immediate means for enhancing health protection, collaborative planning, situational awareness, and strategic decision-making through Web-based Internet applications.

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Mobile Computing at the Department of Defense

Effective Healthcare Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-931777-01-8.ch012 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 192-209

Author(s):

James A. Rodger ◽

Parag C. Pendharkar ◽

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Mobile Computing ◽

Information Management ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

Medical Management ◽

Situational Awareness ◽

Medical Data ◽

Strategic Decision ◽

Strategic Decision Making ◽

The U.S

This chapter is designed to relate the rationale used by the Department of Defense, to utilize Telemedicine, to meet increasing global crises, and for the U.S. military to find ways to more effectively manage manpower and time. A mobile Telemedicine package has been developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to collect and transmit near-real-time, far-forward medical data and to assess how this improved capability enhances medical management of the battlespace. Telemedicine has been successful in resolving uncertain organizational and technological military deficiencies and in improving medical communications and information management. The deployable, mobile Teams are the centerpieces of this Telemedicine package. These teams have the capability of inserting essential networking and communications capabilities into austere theaters and establishing an immediate means for enhancing health protection, collaborative planning, situational awareness, and strategic decision-making.

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A Case Study of the Military Utility of Telemedicine

Developing Quality Complex Database Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-878289-88-9.ch016 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 350-365

Author(s):

David J. Paper ◽

James A. Rodger ◽

Parag C. Pendharkar

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Medical Management ◽

Situational Awareness ◽

Strategic Decision ◽

Operational Issues ◽

Measures Of Effectiveness ◽

Medical Planning ◽

The Military ◽

The U.S

In order to meet the medical management challenges presented by increasing global crises, the U.S. military must find ways to more effectively manage manpower and time. In response, Joint Medical Operations –Telemedicine (JMO-T) has been developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to collect and transmit near-real-time, far-forward medical data and to assess how this improved capability enhances medical management of the battlespace. JMO-T has been successful in resolving uncertain organizational and technological military deficiencies and in improving medical communications and information management. Deployable, mobile telemedicine teams are the centerpieces of JMO-T. These teams have the capability of inserting essential networking and communications capabilities into austere theaters and establishing an immediate means for enhancing health protection, collaborative planning, situational awareness and strategic decision-making. One objective of this chapter is to relate the rationale used by the DOD to determine the military utility of the Joint Medical Operations–Telemedicine Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (JMO-T ACTD) or ACTD for short. ACTD is a JMO-T initiative developed for the purpose of improving joint medical planning capabilities, access and timeliness of medical care, and integration of medical situational awareness. The chapter discusses in detail the complexities involved in the ACTD initiative. A second objective of the chapter is to articulate the development of Critical Operational Issues (COIS) and Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) as methodologies for investigating the military utility of telemedicine.

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