DHS workshop on Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management

Science & Technology Directorate U.S. Department of Homeland Security Workshop on Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management (EMWS09) November 5-6, 2009 Center for Emergency Response Technologies, UC Irvine University of California, Irvine 4100 Calit2 Building, Irvine, CA 92697-2800 Overview Coping with major crisis situations that affect lives and property is one of the most critical and urgent challenges to modern society. A disaster not only inflicts damage on people but the speed and effectiveness of emergency response greatly aid or inhibits the ability of the community and its economy to return to normal. As a result, after life-saving, the greatest contribution that government can make to the victims of an emergency is to provide effective emergency response that will minimize the length and extent of economic dislocation for the victims and the community. Emergency management refers to activities encompassing prevention, protection, response, and recovery. Emergency response consists of multiple functions that are performed immediately after the impact of an event: damage assessment; response needs assessment; response prioritization; coordination and mobilization of rescue operations; resource and logistic planning (e.g., triage, medical care, food, water, shelter); evacuation planning (of people, machinery, and property); situation monitoring; and timely information dissemination to citizens, news media, hospitals, and agencies (federal, state, local, and tribal). Among these vital steps to recovery, the ability to identify resource needs and get those resources to victims is critical. Resource management coordination among all federal, state, local, tribal, private sector and non-governmental personnel is guided by the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Furthermore, the plan that establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents is based on the National Response Framework which assigns responsibilities for identifying, obtaining, and delivering resources to victims. While NIMS provides a structure for organized effective execution of emergency response functions this can only be accomplished in an environment where all response units can share information in an effective and efficient manner. Challenges in meeting victim needs arise from the magnitude and geographic setting of the disaster, the level of coordination required across heterogeneous organizations at the federal, state, local and tribal levels as well as the number of people involved in the operation. Effectiveness of response is incident specific and a function of providing the needed support when it is required at that particular time in the incident. For example, a several hour delay in initiating some response actions could increase dire consequences in terms of human life, property damage and general state of confusion that would impede critical response operations. One fundamental cause for high response latency is the lack of effective resource delivery systems and resource management methodologies for information sharing among all stakeholders and their respective data management applications. This latency cause is further magnified by a lack of essential integration among vital functions. Notable among these vital functions is: Incident management at local and national levels and, resource/service and supply chain management. These functions resemble stovepipes. The delivery of resources is locked in these three stovepipes of information with each having its own stakeholders and applications, generally unconnected. There is a need to explore how advanced technologies can be effectively used to identify the next generation of resource information sharing in order to improve overall emergency management. Workshop Goals and Objectives The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for i) representatives from various government agencies and commercial resource suppliers to present their strategic vision of incident management, resource management, and supply chain management as intersecting disciplines not as separate stovepipes; ii) researchers from academia, industry and national laboratories to assess the state-of-the-art in logistics, identify related R&D challenges, and propose solutions to address these challenges; iii) subject matter experts, practitioners, state and local representatives to discuss their perspectives on the current state of resource management; where should the technology and science be in 5-10 years from now; why we are not there now - What are some of the challenges that are in the way of to be there now?; and why do we need to be there? That is, what legitimate case can be made to justify the needed R&D investments? The results of the workshop will help DHS-S&T formulate near and long term investment decisions as well as research strategies, plans and objectives for next generation emergency management and response. Workshop General Chair Lawrence Skelly, DHS-S&T (lawrence.skelly@dhs.gov) Program Chair/Co-chair • Nabil R. Adam, DHS-S&T (nabil.adam@dhs.gov) (Chair) • Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine (sharad@ics.uci.edu) (Co-Chair) Program Committee • Vijay Atluri, Rutgers U • Ron Cabrera, Chief, LA County Fire • Soon Ae Chun, CUNY • Louise Comfort, Univ. of Pittsburgh • Jerry Couretas, Lockheed Martin • Bruce Davis, DHS-S&T • Edmund H. Durfee, U of Michigan • Ron Eguchi, CEO, ImageCat Inc. • Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue U • Lei Lei, Rutgers U • Mike Macedonia, Forterra Inc. • Paul Matheis, Newport Beach Fire Dept • James W. Morentz, SAIC, Inc. • Michael B. Smith, DHS-S&T • Steve Sellers, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services • Basit Shafiq, Rutgers U • Nancy Suski, LLNL • Bhavani Thuraisingham, UT Dallas • Kathleen Tierney, Hazards Center and UC Boulder • Jaideep Vaidhya, Rutgers U • Linda Vasta, DHS-S&T • Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine • Brent Woodworth, SAHANA Software Foundation Board Classification The workshop will be conducted as Unclassified. Format for the workshop * Keynote Speakers * Panels, position papers, and posters presentations. The presentations and panels will be discussing background useful for the breakout sessions * Breakout sessions and reports Submission Requirements Presentations at the workshop will be by invitation. If interested, please submit 3-page position paper (excluding references). Papers not selected for presentations at the workshop will be considered for a poster session. The major themes of the workshop will focus on technologies that enhance: 1. Information Sharing among incident management, resource management, supply chain management applications 2. Resource Data Analytics for the purpose of more quickly assessing requirements 3. Interoperability among existing systems and how to achieve it 4. Standards, existing and emerging, and what can be borrowed from the commercial business sector which moves goods everyday Sub-topics areas include: * Infrastructure vulnerability; resilience to attacks and disruptions * Multimodal transportation as a key component of supply chain * Trust and privacy issues in organizational information sharing * State-of-the-art incident logistics tools for data collection and sharing (such as barcode and RFID) * Protocols and frameworks for scalable and reliable logistics information exchange * Resource situational awareness and decision support technologies * Information integration challenges for dynamic virtual supply chain organizations that form in crises * On-site, rapidly deployable multi-networks for reliable asset management data collection * Agent-based coordination technologies; Multi-agent systems; Computational tools for distributed planning, scheduling, and control * Virtual environments to support collaboration, planning, and operations * Social networking for Incident Management team building and situational awareness Paper Submission Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emws09 Important Dates * October 12, 2009 Deadline for submission * October 23, 2009 Author notification * November 5-6, 2009 Workshop Registration Workshop attendance is open subject to space availability, with October 26 as the cut-off date. Workshop registration is free. For registration detail and for an up-to-date copy of this workshop write up, please visit: https://www.enstg.com/signup/passthru.cfm?ConferenceCode=WOR77476 Workshop Venue This workshop is scheduled for November 5-6, 2009 at the Center for Emergency Technologies (CERT) at University of California, Irvine. Funded by National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security, CERT has a relatively long history of exploring the application of advanced information technologies for crisis response in close partnerships with the first responder community. The Center is completing a five-year, multi-institutional research study for the National Science Foundation focusing on radically transforming the ability of responding organizations to gather, manage, use, and disseminate information with emergency response networks and to the general public. This project ? RESCUE (http://www.itr-rescue.org) - is being performed in conjunction with another NSF grant that is enabling RESCUE research by providing a large equipment infrastructure for testing and evaluating information technologies for crisis response. In addition to these two grants, CERT is also in its second of a two-year project for DHS FP&S where the focus is on developing the next-generation, end-to-end situational awareness systems for firefighters, incident commanders and emergency/department operations center staff (SAFIRE Project www.cert.ics.uci.edu/SAFIRE). Through each of these projects, CERT has been able to create government/industry partner support groups that participate in these efforts. Below is a partial list of these groups: Government Los Angeles County Fire, Orange County Fire Department (OCFA), City of Ontario Fire Department UCI Police, Newport Beach Fire Department, UCSD Police Department, California Emergency Mgt (formerly OES) Anaheim Fire Department, City of Inglewood, City of Ontario, City of LA, City of San Diego MST San Diego, Caltrans, EH&S at UC Irvine, City of Champaign, IL Academia University of California at San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Brigham Young University, Colorado (Natural Hazards Center), University of Maryland National Univ. of Singapore, ICSI, SRI, CAlIT2 Industry ImageCat, Inc, Raytheon , Masimo , Deltin Corp., 5G Wireless, Boeing , Apani Networks AMD, Canon, D-Link , Cisco, Ether2, IBM, Vital Data Technology, Walker Wireless, School Broadcasting Co. Hotel Accommodation http://www.hiltonirvinehotel.com/ Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport 18800 MacArthur Blvd., Irvine, California 92612 Tel: 1-949-833-9999 Fax: 1-949-833-3317. The hotel offers a block of rooms at the discounted rate of $109.00 per night, with October 20, 2009 as the cut off date. Travel To get here from the John Wayne airport [SNA]: At the exit, turn right on to MacArthur Blvd. Follow for about two lights, then turn left on Campus Dr. Take Campus Dr. SE for about 2-3 miles. Turn right when you get to East Peltason/Berkeley. Stop and buy a visitors parking permit ($4.00), then drive along East Peltason Drive (past 1 signal and 3 stop signs) until you reach the Anteater Parking Structure. Turn right into the parking structure. To get here from LAX: Take Century Blvd. to the 405 South. Follow 405 south for ~45 miles until you get to the Culver exit. Exit Culver, turn right (SW) towards the UCI campus. When you get to Campus Drive, turn right. Follow Campus Drive to the second stoplight, then turn left on to East Peltason Drive/Berkeley. Stop and buy a visitors parking permit ($4.00), then drive along East Peltason Drive (past 1 signal and 3 stop signs) until you reach the Anteater Parking Structure. Turn right into the parking structure. Parking Permits: You will need to purchase a parking permit on campus. A one day general parking permit is $7. For more information, please reference the UCI parking page: http://www.parking.uci.edu/ 1