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1 Strong Angel II: Designing the Edge

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3 “ Let your hypothesis die in your stead. ” - Karl Popper Photo by Mark Maybury

4 Kosovo (S-M), 1999 - US Army soldiers - German food - Russian helicopter - NATO leadership - Civilian support - United Nations mission

5 Cultural insight

6 Koran published in Zulu funded with $1 million through a personal donation from Osama bin Laden through the Islamic Propagation Center in Durban, South Africa Regional perspectives… Osama viewed by others

7 Human Rights issues…

8 Complex traumatic injury …

9 And languages… (always languages…)

10 A complex refugee management problem… Strong Angel

11 From Strong Angel to Iraq…

12 “The area of interest was perhaps more complicated than we first thought.” -- COL John Graham, RAMC

13 Laptop from LTC Susanna Roughton, RAMC Physician-Epidemiologist British Royal Army Az Zubair, Iraq 05/12/03 Critical tools failed…

14 MERPI Medical Evacuation and Repatriation Program for Iraq

15 No military in the design No staff No training logistics No authority No funding No communications No civ-mil network And yet no other option.

16 Distributed collaboration… Secure file encryption at 192-bit threshold Voice-Over-Internet (encrypted) Bandwidth optimized Alerting cues Import-Export as XML with any database Web download for free if needed Transparent – all organizations Adaptive architecture (instantly flexible) Distance learning (and teaching) Remote presentations “Distributed collaboration inside CENTCOM won the war” Statement from CENTCOM and the Army Lessons Learned Lab Quoted by an OSD official, 11 July 03 Reference library of pubs and docs Logistics delivery calendar Instant Messaging (encrypted) Secure chat (encrypted) Annotated maps Annotated satellite photos Who’s available, instantly Immediate feedback on comms Sends only binary changes Peer-to-peer, so no ownership

17 Strong Angel II - Designing the Edge Kona, Hawaii 17-22 July 2004 "Design and implement a far-forward capacity for rapid and appropriate humanitarian information management from global resources within and across civil-military boundaries.” Tasking: The Office of the Secretary of Defense Principle Investigator: CDR Eric Rasmussen, MC, USN Exercise proximity: RIMPAC 2004, Third Fleet, US Navy

18 Topic Areas Translation Collaboration Communication Cultural awareness Sustainable footprint Civil-Military trans-boundary design Information collection, analysis, reporting

19 Participation: OSD ( Office of the Secretary of Defence ) DARPA ( Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) DHS ( Department of Homeland Security) ARC ( American Red Cross) BBN ( Bolt, Baranec, and Newman) Buckminster Fuller Institute CENTCOM ( US Central Command ) Coalition Provisional Authority (Baghdad) Engineers without Borders George Mason University Groove Networks IRC ( International Rescue Committee) Mindtel ( Syracuse University) MITRE Corporation ( Mass Inst Tech Res & Eng) National Interagency Civil-Military Institute National Virtual Translation Center NATO New York Times Physicians for Human Rights Rocky Mountain Institute (Aspen) San Diego State University SPAWAR Systems Center - Europe Third Fleet (US Navy) TIDES World Press Reports (DARPA) UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK Royal Navy UNICEF ( United Nations Children’s Fund) USAID ( US Agency for International Development) US Army Civil Affairs (352 nd ) US State Department WFP ( World Food Programme) National Representatives Australia Denmark Djibouti Ethiopia Greece Japan Kenya Malaysia Romania Serbia and Montenegro

20 Strong Angel 2

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22 Pelco fix from Australia

23 Remote surveillance

24 Courtesy…

25 Panasonic Toughbook CF-73

26 Community support

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28 Ethical consultation

29 FotoNotes

30 Collaborative evaluation

31 Open-source collaborative website Plone to Zope to Groove to Zope to Plone

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38 Phraselator

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41 GeoFusion

42 GPS on 38-meter LANDSAT, free off the web

43 KGVAD-1 ToucanNavigate

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47 Done.

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49 Pony Express

50 Groove Mobile Relay Server

51 Pegasus

52 NATO contingent

53 MEGABEAM search PACOM Joint Frequency Management Office And Melanie Cultural integration allowed success…

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57 Emergency notification

58 Police Blotter

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62 VSee

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64 Library

65 Flexible solar array

66 Questions?


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