Advanced consequence management program: challenges and recent real-world implementations

Tom Graser; K. Suzanne Barber; Bob Williams; Feras Saghir; Kurt A. Henry

doi:10.1117/12.479324

14 August 2002 Advanced consequence management program: challenges and recent real-world implementations

Tom Graser, K. Suzanne Barber, Bob Williams, Feras Saghir, Kurt A. Henry

Proceedings Volume 4708, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479324
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The Enhanced Consequence Management, Planning and Support System (ENCOMPASS) was developed under DARPA's Advanced Consequence Management program to assist decision-makers operating in crisis situations such as terrorist attacks using conventional and unconventional weapons and natural disasters. ENCOMPASS provides the tools for first responders, incident commanders, and officials at all levels to share vital information and consequently, plan and execute a coordinated response to incidents of varying complexity and size. ENCOMPASS offers custom configuration of components with capabilities ranging from map-based situation assessment, situation-based response checklists, casualty tracking, and epidemiological surveillance. Developing and deploying such a comprehensive system posed significant challenges for DARPA program management, due to an inherently complex domain, a broad spectrum of customer sites and skill sets, an often inhospitable runtime environment, demanding development-to-deployment transition requirements, and a technically diverse and geographically distributed development team. This paper introduces ENCOMPASS and explores these challenges, followed by an outline of selected ENCOMPASS deployments, demonstrating how ENCOMPASS can enhance consequence management in a variety real world contexts.

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Tom Graser, K. Suzanne Barber, Bob Williams, Feras Saghir, and Kurt A. Henry "Advanced consequence management program: challenges and recent real-world implementations", Proc. SPIE 4708, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement, (14 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479324

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