Crisis Response Interoperability System: Enabling Multi-National and Multi-Agency Defence Against Terrorism

We live in an increasingly interconnected, complex and often dangerous world, and recent events have moved the issues of anti- and counter-terrorism, national/public security, and collective emergency response to the fore of concerns of many nations. Large-scale terrorist emergency situations necess...

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Main Authors: Roy, Jean, Dessureault, Dany, Letourneau, Francois
Format: Report
Language:English
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Administration and Management
BRIEFING CHARTS NETWORK-CENTRIC
CANADA
Civil Defense
COUNTERTERRORISM
CRIS(CRISIS RESPONSE INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEM)
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
DATA FUSION
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
FIRST RESPONDERS
FOREIGN REPORTS
INFORMATION CENTERS
Information Science
INTERAGENCY COOPERATION
KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK
Military Intelligence
NATIONAL SECURITY
NATO SUPPLIED
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
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Summary:We live in an increasingly interconnected, complex and often dangerous world, and recent events have moved the issues of anti- and counter-terrorism, national/public security, and collective emergency response to the fore of concerns of many nations. Large-scale terrorist emergency situations necessitate the ability to coordinate multi-agency and multi-national operations. Advanced information management technology is required to enable the emergency response communities to timely and securely access data, information, services, etc. relevant to their roles and responsibilities. In this regard, this paper described a new R&D project, called Crisis Response Interoperability System (CRIS). A brief review of Canada's national security policy is presented. Key concepts of emergency management are outlined. An analysis of the characteristics of emergency management, and also of the information management requirements associated with the collective response to emergencies, is presented. Highlights are presented of a vision to structure a knowledge environment framework capable of laying the foundations of a situational awareness knowledge portal. The specific objectives of the CRIS project are summarized, and a number of system requirements are listed. Then, some enabling technologies for the project are discussed. Finally, the R&D methodology used for the CRIS project is described. Presented at the RTO SCI Symposium on Systems, Concepts and Integration (SCI) Methods and Technologies for Defence Against Terrorism, held in London, United Kingdom on 25-27 Oct 2004. Published in the proceedings; see ADM201977, Systems, Concepts and Integration Methods and Technologies for Defence against Terrorism (Systemes, concepts, methodes d'integration et technologies pour la luttre contre le terrorisme), RTO-MP-SCI-158, paper 8. The original document contains color images.