I527-290 ESRIF Final Report (WEB).indd - European Commission

4 STRATEGY AND TACTICAL
SIMULATION
5 INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS
FOR MANAGEMENT
6 SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
AND DECISION MAKING
The need for “intelligent” planning and
decision support on the strategic and
tactical level is noticeable.
Capabilities aspects comprise:
Simulations used in the planning
process
Assumed behaviour of public and
critical infrastructures
Service levels of intervention forces
Long term eff ects of an incident
Simulations to be conducted during
operations to support the decision
making process
Flow of goods and persons, merging
of data from diff erent sources into one
operational picture
The idea of innovative concepts is that
the changing security environment with
its inherent uncertainties and emerging
new challenges for security forces require
not only improved strategic planning
capabilities, but also continuous reviewing
of current Crisis Management concepts.
Capabilities aspects comprise:
Trust in information
Management tools and work fl ow
Dynamic organisational developments
Motivation
Network enabled operations
With the increasing amount of available
information coming from more and more
sophisticated sensor systems on the one
hand and by means of information sharing
with other organisations on the other,
research on Crisis Management processes
and workfl ows together with human factor
issues shall improve the eff ectiveness and
effi ciency of the crisis managers.
Capabilities aspects comprise:
Integration of structures and technologies
that provide sensor/surveillance data
Geo-referenced information space
Data fusion
Information representation
Information fl ows
Near real time aspects
Network centric capabilities
Information distribution to fi eld
Dependability of systems
Decision Support Systems
Early indications for warning
Research and innovation activities
in the security sector dedicated to
M&S-based supporting tools need
to be continued having a close
look at the emerging technologies
in particular on the interoperability
issues for M&S tools.
Research and innovation should
support the process of adaptation of
these concepts to the new challenges
two-fold: on the one hand, modern
management concepts and tools
and their possible use for innovating
Crisis Management concepts should
be assessed, understood and
exploited (e.g. adaptive complexity
management). On the other hand,
novel system of systems approaches
like the NEC (network enabling
capabilities) concept should be
analysed for civil security applications
and related capabilities should be
developed.
Research and innovation shall focus
on new ways of off ering information to
the user. The rapidly increasing amount
of data available needs accurate
compilation depending on processes,
workfl ows and most importantly the
individual needs of the user. Each
person develops a very personal
model to cope with information
overfl ow. “One size fi ts all” will not
be appropriate for future amounts of
data.
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