Day 1 Breakout Report

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Day 1 Breakout Report

• Session 1 Incident Response
• Chair Brent Woodsworth
• Co-Chairs Ellen Sogolow Rufus Edwards

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Needed Capabilities (Gaps)

• Intelligent data, data filtering, and data
  routing
• Ability to get the right information to the right
  responders and adapt to the environment.
• Intelligence with respect to providing the right
  data to the right people in the right format, at
  the right time.
• Protocols and procedures for deploying the
  information to the right responders
• Capability to decide to what level information is
  useful?
• What is the information I need to make decisions.
  
• How do we filter out the information and have
  relevant information.
• Way to portray information that can be absorbed
  quickly.
• Differentiation of information in the types of
  incidents we are dealing with.
• Information to consume vs information to push out
  and reception of information being pushed out
  (how was it received and interpreted)
• Can not just rely on the technology. (Technology
  dependence)
• Technology needs to be reliable and support the
  workflow of the individual using it.
• Need for a translation phase that bridges the
  science-to-practice gap. (Technology transfer)
• Need for training in appropriate environments.
  (tabletop exercises, etc)
• Need the involvement of the communities that
  allow the process to become more adoptable.
• Usefulness of the tool to the user.
  (user-friendly and relevant)
• Collaborative response. (pre-incident)
• Ability for communications equipment to match the
  environments in which they are deployed.

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Challenges

• Short-term (lt3 years)
• Reaching early adopters getting good practices
  and models out there.
• Building community trust and identifying the
  roles and responsibilites.
• Funding
• How do we achieve resiliency with what we already
  have?
• Maximize the resources you have with potentially
  no increase or decrease even in your budget.
• Data validity and consistency
• Long-term (3-5years)
• Taking those practices and making them
  policies/standards and conducting the education
  to implement them.
• How can the technology help make us more
  adaptable? Adapting the response.
• Data governing body to distribute guidelines for
  entities to record and define their data.
  (consistency)

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Opportunities

• Data sharing is being shared at more levels and
  between more disciplines than we ever have.
• Take advantage of the technology already out
  there.
• Take advantage of the collaboration and
  cooperation in place and ongoing.
• Developing tools that can be used on a daily
  basis as well as in a major incident/emergency.
• Foster the industry/government/academic
  collaboration (i.e. this workshop concept)
• Improving the quality of the existing data and
  the levels of detail.
• UICDS leveraging systems such as this and other
  similar existing systems.
• Take advantage of the newer social networking
  tools in a way that can be trustable to improve
  the way traditional EM has disseminated and
  received data.

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Recommendations/Conclusions

• Have more venues for industry/academia/government
  to develop a plan forward (a collaborative
  piloting tool)
• Need executive level and practitioner level
  sponsor to support to help push the output to
  become a reality
• Piloting a tool while continuing research
• Involvement of smaller local jurisdictions in
  developing system and functional requirements.
• Set forth a challenge (incentivize) to support
  the work of academics and practitioners to
  develop these community projects. (i.e. DARPA
  Grand Challenge)