Pearl Harbor, 9–11, Katrina, Virginia Tech shootings, Deepwater Horizon planning deficiencies: A sense-respond information-sharing solution

Abstract

The deficiencies of leadership and planning documented in the 1946 Congressional investigation of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack are also evident in evidence presented at the investigations of 9/11, Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, Deepwater Horizon, the Columbine shootings, and Exxon Valdez. Even day-to-day incidents in a major Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) region with massive technology investment suffers from these deficiencies. Mitigating and eliminating these deficiencies requires detailed information-sharing planning to replace the legacy ad hoc publish-and-subscribe methods pervasive today in public safety and emergency management, which - for many reasons - sustains the causes and effects of these planning deficiencies. This paper presents a conceptual sense-respond information-sharing architecture driven by a nonmonotonic-reasoning-based intelligent kernel. The process of implementing this proactive decision-support capability for day-to-day as well as major incidents/events as well as the use of the tool itself will together mitigate and eventually eliminate the Pearl Harbor deficiencies.