Coping With Crisis Communications

摘要

Rapidly deploy able, reliable and secure communications are helping sort through the inherent communications chaos surrounding emergency situations. The technology was instrumental in providing communications capabilities after the terrorist attacks and also was useful in debris recovery operations after the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Current homeland security efforts call for cooperation and collaboration among various emergency response organizations from all levels of government. These groups assess a crisis situation then help coordinate an effective response. However, they face the challenge of communicating with each other using different types of equipment.