Using Integrated Synthetic Environments to Train the Command and Control of Military Assistance to Civil Emergencies

摘要

A research programme has been initiated to develop an integrated SE for training the Command and Control of civil emergencies. The focus for this work is on the UK Military Assistance to the Civil Authority (MACA) activities. Events such as the fuel crisis, strikes by fire and ambulance services, and the increasing demands generated following the World Trade Centre attack, have all required the deployment of MoD assets. The SE research community in the UK has long wished to see its applications migrate from military use to the civil domain. Therefore this study seeks to identify where existing SE tools and techniques can be used to support This paper discusses the research programme, sponsored by the UK MoD Corporate Research Programme (SSS Domain) and describes the work carried out to date. Research conducted so far includes a stakeholder analysis of recent national crises. This analysis led to a generic model of crisis development, which identifies five phases ranging from prevention through containment to a review phase at the end. The application of SEs to support these phases is then described. In parallel to the stakeholder analysis, a survey of simulation tools that have the potential to support crisis management was performed and is described here. Finally some prototype architectures are illustrated and an overview of future work in this programme is discussed.