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GMU C4I Center Seminar
Citizens Emergency Response Portal System Simulation Experiment:
After-Action Review
Jim Dear
MITRE Corporation
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 1:30 PM
Nguyen Engineering building, Room 4705
ABSTRACT
Real-time citizen interaction has the potential to transform society's response to crisis situations.
New systems and processes must be developed to support citizen involvement and first responders must be
trained in their use. The Citizens' Emergency Response Portal System (CERPS) Simulation Experiment
(CERPS SIMEX) examined the role of public interaction through social media during emergency situations.
The SIMEX was conducted over five days in October 2012 at the Net-Centric C4ISR Experimentation Lab (NCEL)
housed at The MITRE Corporation's McLean, Va., headquarters and on the George Mason University (GMU) campus
in Fairfax, Va. No actual emergency activities occurred on the campus; the SIMEX was conducted behind a
firewall to avoid unintentional public panic. The SIMEX brought together emergency response personnel from
federal, state, county and city jurisdictions in the National Capital Region of Washington, D.C. Emergency
operators used real command and control systems with simulated reporting and sensor systems. Citizen
participants were volunteers recruited from the GMU student body. The primary purpose of the SIMEX was to
examine the hypothesis that citizen participation via social media in crisis response decision-making
can improve the outcome of a crisis. This SIMEX was intended to establish a baseline for future research
on crisis response decision support employing citizen participation.
BIO
Jim Dear is Senior Principal Staff at the MITRE Corporation and the Project Leader for the Net-Centric
C4ISR Experimentation Lab (NCEL). The technologies and concepts behind the CERPS SIMEX were developed and
integrated in the NCEL. The government uses NCEL to conduct simulation experiments (SIMEXs) that place actual
military and civilian operators in various crisis-based scenarios. During the SIMEXs, operators use real
command and control systems linked to simulated reporting and sensor systems. In the last 10 years, sponsors
and customers from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have used
these SIMEXs to develop concepts of operations (CONOPS) and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) around
the use of emerging technologies. Since 2002, NCEL has conducted 43 SIMEXs.
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