Jan Allbeck and Michael Hieb
Receive Funding from
Tridium, CACI, and the U.S. Dept. of the Army
Duminda Wijisekera Receives Funding
from US Dept. of
Transportation
Kris Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps
Receive Funding from
McQ, Inc. and the U.S. Dept. of the Navy
C4I
Seminar: Friday, Mar 8, 1:30 pm,
room 4705
Speaker:
Mr. Jim Dear, MITRE Corporation
Citizens
Emergency
Response Portal System Simulation Experiment: After-Action
Review Abstract:
Real-time citizen interaction has the potential to transform
society’s response
to crisis situations. New systems and processes must be developed
to support
citizen involvement and first responders must be trained in their
use. The
Citizens’ Emergency Response Portal System (CERPS) Simulation
Experiment (CERPS
SIMEX) examined the role of public interaction through social
media during
emergency situations. The SIMEX was conducted over five days in
October 2012 at
the Net-Centric C4ISR Experimentation Lab (NCEL) housed at The
MITRE
Corporation’s McLean, Va., headquarters and on the George Mason
University
(GMU) campus in Fairfax, Va. No actual emergency activities
occurred on the
campus; the SIMEX was conducted behind a firewall to avoid
unintentional public
panic. The SIMEX brought together emergency response personnel
from federal,
state, county and city jurisdictions in the National Capital
Region of
Washington, D.C. Emergency operators used real command and control
systems with
simulated reporting and sensor systems. Citizen participants were
volunteers
recruited from the GMU student body. The primary purpose of the
SIMEX was to
examine the hypothesis that citizen participation via social media
in crisis
response decision-making can improve the outcome of a crisis. This
SIMEX was
intended to establish a baseline for future research on crisis
response
decision support employing citizen participation.
Speaker information:
Jim Dear is Senior Principal Staff at the MITRE
Corporation and the
Project Leader for the Net-Centric C4ISR Experimentation Lab
(NCEL). The
technologies and concepts behind the CERPS SIMEX were developed
and integrated
in the NCEL. The government uses NCEL to conduct simulation
experiments
(SIMEXs) that place actual military and civilian operators in
various
crisis-based scenarios. During the SIMEXs, operators use real
command and
control systems linked to simulated reporting and sensor systems.
In the last
10 years, sponsors and customers from the Department of Defense
(DoD) and the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have used these SIMEXs to
develop
concepts of operations (CONOPS) and tactics, techniques and
procedures (TTPs)
around the use of emerging technologies. Since 2002, NCEL has
conducted 43
SIMEXs.
Beginning
March 18, 2013, the NSF FastLane system will begin automated
compliance
checking of required sections of full proposals. This will bring
NSF systems in
line with long-standing proposal preparation requirements as
outlined in the
NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide.
A webinar on the changes will be held
on March 8th 2:30-4pm.See the above URL for
further details.
Huzefa
Rangwala Receives CAREER Award
from NSF
Huzefa
Rangwala of the Computer Science Department received $550K as a
CAREER award
from the National Science Foundation for his project “CAREER:
Annotating the
Microbiome using Machine Learning Methods”.
Jan
Allbeck and Michael Hieb Receive Funding from Tridium, CACI, and
the U.S. Dept.
of the Army
Jan
Allbeck and Michael Hieb of the C4I Center received $15K from
Tridium, CACI,
and the U.S. Dept. of the Army for their project “Army NVESD”.
Duminda
Wijisekera Receives Funding from US Dept. of Transportation
Duminda
Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department received $330K from
the US Dept.
of Transportation for his project “Mapping GSM-R into US Wireless
Frequency
Intervals for High-Speed Rail”.
Kris
Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps Receive Funding from McQ, Inc. and the
U.S. Dept. of
the Navy
Kris
Gaj and Jens-Peter Kaps of the Electrical & Computer
Engineering Department
received $10K from McQ, Inc. and the U.S. Dept. of the Navy for
their project
“Distributed Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks”
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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