Advanced Operational Concepts for Information Sharing and Coordination Centers.

摘要

The Federal Government has been working to increase the security of U.S. ports including the supply chains that move goods and materiel that pass through these ports. This is especially true in the case of war materiel moving between forts and depots in the United States and theaters of operation. The Delaware River Maritime Enterprise Council (DRMEC) has developed a facility, called RAPID Center, to support this effort. Beginning in 2004, DRMEC tasked IDA to initiate the design, development, and demonstration of a pilot version of an online system to support RAPID Center, which in the beginning was housed in a fixed facility. However, given local as well as world conditions, it was deemed prudent to develop alternatives to the fixed faculty approach. Two alternatives seemed to have significant potential; distributed and virtual modes. In the distributed mode, personnel can conduct the center s operations from multiple locations that are distant from the site of the operation. In the virtual mode, the center s personnel can operate while on the move. This document provides a detailed discussion of these two approaches. It also describes other operations where these approaches may be useful.