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Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Response
Institute
Integrating Solutions Facilitating Real Time
Decisions
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Opportunity

• National priority
• prevent, detect, respond, recover
• State economic development priority
• Battelle ST Roadmap
• Substantial new funding
• 4.43B DHS information technology (FY05)
• 1.2B DHS RD budget (FY05)
• 987M science technology research (FY05)
• 79M DHS Centers of Excellence (FY04)
• HS research portfolio in most agencies

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Urgency

• No established national leaders
• UMass is competitive
• Fluid research agenda
• UMass can influence research priorities
• Multi-disciplinary research
• UMass can integrate campus expertise
• Multi-dimensional response
• UMass can provide research, education, and
  training

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Mission

• To develop a revolutionary new paradigm for the
  design, operation, and verification of emergency
  response systems

Applications
Training
Acquisition
Computer Science
Psychology
Processing
Engineering
Sociology
Fundamental Research
SEPRI
Decision Making
Food Science
Public Health Nursing
Polymer Sc. Chemistry
BioSystems
New Technologies
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Emergency Response
Effective, coordinated response
Real-time intelligence/ threat info
Data
Data
Info
Decision/policy layer
Transportation network
Info
Health-care network
Data
Coasts and harbors
Application layer
Hardware layer
Data
Data
Vulnerability Simulator
Emergency Response Grid
Regular operations coordination
Training personnel
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Institute Organization
SEPRI
CLIENTS Local, State Federal Agencies
FUNDING Federal, State Corporate Research Labs
RESEARCH
SERVICE
EDUCATION
PARTNERS
First Responders State Federal Emergency
Planning DoD, DoE Government Labs Non-Profit
Organizations
Medical Healthcare Providers Emergency Response
System Developers Technology Integrators Industria
l RD Centers Universities Training and Outreach
Providers
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Functional Organization
Medicalpartners
University partners
NIH Projects
IGERT
DHS Center of Excellence
NEHSC
MAPC
Training Group
Federal Appropriation
Federal Lab partners
Corporatepartners
SEPRI
State Local Agency partners
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UMass Amherst Emergency Response Research
2001-2204 Federal Grants 38M
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Campus HS Profile

• Faculty representing 6 colleges
• 160 faculty have HS related interests
• Significant recent funded research
• 38M funded research in past 3 years (30
  PIs, 90 projects)
• Nationally prominent programs
• Sensors sensor network, communication
  networking, complex systems, etc
• Leveraging current success
• CASA ERC

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Faculty Initiatives

• Faculty Leadership - Clarke, Deshmukh, Fisher,
  Henneman, Hird, Reckhow, Rotello
• DHS Center of Excellence in Emergency Response
  (18M over 3 years) - Clarke, Deshmukh (12 UMass
  faculty, 4 NE universities, 5 industrial
  partners, 3 government labs, 2 hospitals and 5
  state agencies)
• Mass EOPS Center for Information Integration
  (3-4M per year) - Clarke, Deshmukh, Fisher,
  Osterweil, Jensen
• Medical Emergency Response Infrastructure -
  Clarke, Corkill, Deshmukh, Henneman, Levine,
  Osterweil
• NIH Emergency Response Training Methods -
  Corkill, Woolf

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Faculty Initiatives (cont.)

• US-Israel Collaboration (150K) - Corkill,
  Deshmukh, Rosenberg, Zilberstein
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council - Corkill,
  Oppenheimer, Hilton
• Mass DOT Variable Message Signage - Fisher,
  Shuldiner
• FDA Food Safety - Levin, McLandsborough
• DARPA Knowledge Discovery - Jensen

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Center Goals

• Funding - 5-6M/year in 3-5 years
• Recognition - DHS Center of Excellence
• Research - integrate technological, cognitive and
  social aspects of emergency response
• Service - focal point for MA research,
  development and training related to HS
• Teaching - new multi-disciplinary educational
  programs in HS/ER
• Commercialization - transitioning research into
  products

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Research Themes

• Hardware Layer
• Biological chemical detectors
• Protective composites and polymers
• Energy efficient sensors
• Ad-hoc wireless networks

• Application Layer
• Distributed inferencing and knowledge
  acquisition
• Process languages
• Dynamic data-driven analysis
• Enhanced middleware services

• Decision Layer
• Distributed coordination
• Public policy-technology interactions
• Cognitive models of risk
• Shared mental models in teams

• End-User Domains
• Healthcare systems
• Coasts and harbors
• Transportation systems
• Energy infrastructure
• Communication networks

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Bacterial Biosensor
UNPOLYMERIZED MONOMERS
The detector, after being prepared to detect E.
coli does not respond to non-target cells.
Change in Frequency (Hz)
Time (seconds)
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Energy Efficiency
Goal Minimize overall energy consumption for
prolonged sensor network operation

• Approach
• Low power hardware variable f and VDD (lt3V, sleep
  modes, PCpvfVDD2)
• Energy harvesting from environment
• Computational vs. communication energy

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Enhanced Middleware

• Integration of Heterogeneous Systems in the Grid
  Environment
• Small hand held devices for emergency response
  personal
• portable SOAP version to access grid services
• ensure secure data transfer
• Interoperability of different grid software
• common protocols among grid cluster
• share resources
• common database interface

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GIS Emergency Response Tools Springfield
Population/plume overlay
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Ant Algorithms

• Goals
• Develop search algorithms based on pheromone
  deposition methods used in ant food foraging for
  combinatorial optimization problems
• Parallelize the algorithms on the grid
• Results
• Solved largest benchmark TSP problems in orders
  of magnitude less compute times
• Applications in dynamic packet routing

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Evacuation Highways and Biways
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Shared Mental Models

• Goal
• Determine what and how collaborators share
  information
• Preliminary Results
• Individuals mental models converge over time
• Mental model content shifts from general to
  specific over time
• Cognitive agreement positively impacts team
  performance

Teamwork SMM
Orientation
Differentiation
Integration
YES
Taskwork SMM
NO
Changes or
adjustments
required?
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Major Funding Sources

• DHS Center of Excellence
• Emergency Response Management
• NIH
• Information Management in Disasters
• NSF
• Cyber Infrastructure Initiative
• DOD
• MURI - DURIP Program

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HS-CENTERS Program

• Network of complementary centers
• Different from ERC
• Emphasis on end-to-end solutions
• Multidisciplinary, industry/end-user involvement
• Three DHS center awarded
• USC, Minnesota, UTexas
• Several more contemplated this year
• DHS Centers budget 79 Million FY04
• 5-6 Million/year for 3 years
• With follow-on funding possibility

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Other Funding Avenues

• State HS Offices
• EOPS
• State Public Health Programs
• Rhode Island HEALTH Initiative
• DOT
• ITS Program
• Several targeted RFPs from DOD branches, DARPA,
  DOE and NASA

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Service and Outreach

• Technology Assessment Testbed
• Computational grid (400 nodes)
• Proof-of-concept capability
• Unbiased evaluation - team with MITRE
• Emergency Response Roundtable
• Venue for government, non-profit, industrial and
  academic partners to exchange concepts
• Emergency Response Conference
• Environmental Terrorism Panel

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Education and Training

• Multi-disciplinary Curriculum
• NSF-IGERT
• Emergency response undergraduate minor
• First Responder Programs
• UMass Online platform

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Economic Impact

• New Products and Industries
• Sensors and sensor networks
• Biological and chemical sensors
• Ad-hoc sensor networks
• Computational grids
• Grid services
• Large scale system integration
• Healthcare systems
• Transportation
• Borders and coastline
• Information aggregation
• Data mining and knowledge discovery

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Economic Impact

• Technology Assessment Testbed
• Collaborate with Hanscom and MITRE
• Competitive resource for small businesses
• Risk Mitigation
• Reduction in economic and human losses in
  emergencies
• Lower risk rating resulting in substantial
  savings for small communities

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Next Steps

• Proposal for UMass Presidents ST initiative
  funds
• DHS Center proposal
• FY05 Federal and State legislative appropriations
• Mass EOPS initiative
• Develop and foster partnerships
• Support inter-disciplinary proposals

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Industrial Partners

• IBM
• Raytheon
• Lucent - Bell Labs
• MITRE
• Geo-Centers - EAI
• Court Square
• BAE Systems
• General Dynamics
• Partners Healthcare

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Academic Partners

• Baystate Medical Center
• Dartmouth College
• MIT
• Harvard
• University of Maine
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Rhode Island

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Federal/State/Local Partners

• Sandia Labs
• Natick Army Labs
• Lincoln Labs
• Mass DOT, DPH, DEP
• MassPort
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council
• Boston EMS
• Western Mass Regional LEPC