[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future crisis management.] Crisis management refers to the use of command, control, communications, and intelligence information systems to support decision makers in anticipating threats, formulating plans, and executing these plans through coordinated response.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future crisis management.] Crisis management refers to the use of command, control, communications, and intelligence information systems to support decision makers in anticipating threats, formulating plans, and executing these plans through coordinated response. This sub-element will support work in crisis management that deals with a variety of large-scale, time-critical, resource-limited problems, including nuclear monitoring, disaster operations, and riot control.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Crisis Management
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: 3.5 National Challenges
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
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