Strong Angel New Tasks from DoDD 3000.05
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Strong Angel
New Tasks from DoDD 3000.05
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACPDirector, Strong Angel Demonstrationsand Chairman, Department of MedicineNaval Hospital Bremerton, Seattle, WA
Special Operations Medical Conference30 November 2006
As we all know…
Win the Fight First
We’re enlarging our understanding of what that means.
Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction
( SSTR )
We went where the UN suggested we learn…
We learned the OTHER communications requirements
Talking with NGOs
Talking with each other
Talking with the US military
Talking with the Host Nation
Talking with UN relief agencies
Talking with expatriates in exile
Talking with the local population
Talking with subject-matter experts
Talking with international military partners
Talking with Contractors while developing reconstruction plans
Talking with the US government agencies supporting relief efforts
Bring superb and open comms…
…teach them to everyone…
…and leave them behind.
…use them daily across all boundaries…
We need to talk with a LOT of people.
So protect the data. Not the network.
Let partners share our assets.
( more on Hushmail later… )
Banda Aceh
Unlikely
colleagues
responded
with us
in the field…
And did good work.
KatrinaAnd lessons we recognized…
Comms x 6
Shared Situational Awareness is critical• Remote bridges were out
• Field meetings were missed
• Coordination failed
• Meth-based assaults went unreported
• Solutions were tried, and some succeeded
• More options are required
Position Tracking and GPS-based Navigation
• New Orleans had been evacuated. No streetlights at night, and no one to ask for directions.
• A USB GPS, in combination with laptop software, worked well for navigation while driving.
• Distributed, encrypted, peer-to-peer software was used for sharing position data through a Verizon Aircard with others in the field with us, as well as with headquarters.
● Mobile Worker coordination (FRS-GMRS radios)
● Contact information was as valuable as gasoline
● The “Persistent Identity” problem
● Spontaneous Virtual Teaming
● Lighting and Shelter
● And everyone was paying attention…
Other topics we found important in Katrina…
And soon new mandates appeared…
3000.05 and SSTR
Civil-military integration must now become routine…
And we were asked to try something…
Anticipating complexity
Exploring Responses
Cultivating Resilience
How could a community, anywhere, respond well in 2007?
Scenario● An urban community, somewhere in the world, is under pressure● Comms, lift, and power are compromised● Some are ill, and many more are at risk● No physical help from the outside
Goals● Create an extreme response laboratory to drive innovation● Avoid a domestic focus. Propose global solutions● Open source, open standard, and free are preferred● Produce tools deployable by the end of 2006
● Designed as a demonstration, not an exercise.
Exercise: “Training to Requirements”
Demonstration: “Striving toward Objectives”
● more points if your stuff works with their stuff
Laboratory for innovation
● All efforts toward optimizing a single goal:
Effective response to a population in need● Non-competitive
● Non-hierarchical (anarchy, initially…)
● Self-organizing, to a point
●Cooperative collaboration is mandated
Strong Angel III Tasks…
● Build key local relationships ( how does the neighborhood work? )
● Create an urgent work environment
● Establish effective multi-modal cross-agency communications
● Provide sustainable and independent power to the SA-III site
● Synchronize information flows across diverse tools
● Track key disaster response metrics
● Ensure rapid epidemiological assessment, analysis, and reporting.
● Perform comprehensive remote risk analysis.
● Integrate volunteers into the event effectively.
● Develop Harvard Kennedy School crisis leadership metrics
Designed carefully to reproduce reality…
● 800 participants
● 270 organizations
● 9 nations, 4 militaries
● 11 international NGOs
● One abandoned building
empty, dark, cold, unsafe
● $180,000 total funding
● ONE full-time staff for 90 days
● All volunteer coordination
Volunteers
And Suzanne Mikawa – Strong Angel
John CrowleyHarvard
Robert KirkpatrickGroove and MHS
Dr. Nigel SnoadUN and MHS
John Francis, PhD
UN Goodwill Ambassador on the Environment
Minimizing Agendas
• Political
• Personal
• Academic
• Religious
• Corporate
• Social
Unusual staff member…an Ethics Advisor, helping the focus
Recommended.
How did it go?
Civil-Military relationships expanded
Afghan NGO and Joint Forces Command, planning
Stimulus for multiple meetings…
Power options provedflexible and robust
GSM Smartphone• Voice• SMS Text• Speakerphone• International utility• 802.11 WiFi• Web• Email• Powerpoint, Excel, Word…• Camera• Voice recorder• VOIP (Skype)• IR-Bluetooth data exchange• GPS• Library (2 Gig card)• Maps• Power from solar, crank, USB
Overlooked assets…
GATR Inflatable Vsat
• Compact
• 65 pounds
• Highly reliable
T1-speed Internet access
NGO discovery
Now in use in Afghanistan
Amateur (HAM) radio
VoiceSMSEmailGPSPower from automobile outlets
Significant success.• Up in eight minutes• Constant comms
We’re advocating more.
So, interesting possibilities…
● Power (Skybuilt)
● Lighting (Carmanah)
● Sahana (Sri Lanka, Beirut)
● Contacts (Blueforce DD)
● Second Life (Strong Angel Island)
● PFIF and SSE standards (Yahoo and Microsoft)
● Secure email (Hushmail)
● All-Hazards Analysis (General Atomics)
● Social Fragility Indicators (Susan Cutter and UNC)
● USB drives (Toozl)
Toozl
The One Ounce
Laptop22 applicationsAll free, open source, and open standardsBrowserMailOffice SuiteWeb designSkypeGraphicsMedia playerAnti-virusMore…
• Runs off a USB drive• Never touches the registry• Never touches the hard drive• No trace of its use• Can run using Linux on the USB• Strong encryption• Free
Other areas of interest…
● Translation (GALE)
● Codespear (FDNY)
● Disaster Vehicles (GM)
● FM Comms (SPOT Watch)
● Community Journalism (Internews)
● Collaborative, peer-to-peer software (Groove)
Distributed Resilience example
● International Medical Corps researcher Dr. Lynn Lawry
epidemiologist and Harvard faculty, more than 20 deployments
Darfur Women’s Health Survey
● Toughbook CF-29
● Checkpoint challenge
● Laptop destroyed
● Groove space
on three continents
● Still on my laptop
Quick strategic thoughts…
For 3000.05
there is much to learn
Information flow is almost as vital as water
International expertise can be invaluable
Bring, share, and expand the network
Just to re-state the obvious to this crowd…
Comms, Lift, and Power
fail consistently in the field
and
The disconnected user is the norm
International Field Resources
● UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA)
● UN Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC)
● International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG)
● International Organization for Migration (IOM)
● International Medical Corps (IMC)
● European Masters in Disaster Medicine – Responders (EMDM-R)
● World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
“We need to figure out how to disseminate unclassified data with the same priority we do classified data – perhaps more…given our need to communicate with non-traditional actors.”
GEN Lance Smith, Commander, US Joint Forces Command, May 2006
Simple recommendation…
For information flow,
adopt the effective tools
already in use within the
humanitarian community.
Ask me about anything.
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
360 - 621 - 3592
www.strongangel3.org