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Overview and HA/DRAll Partners Access Network

Ty Wooldridge, Division Chief

Tim Gramp, APAN

Pacific Warfighting Center

US Pacific Command

Jerry Giles, Branch Chief

What Does APAN Provide?

• Communities and Working Groups • Internet Accessible

• Mobile and Low Bandwidth

• Security

Internet

Information Sharing

Shared Situational Awareness

Collaboration

What Does APAN Do?

Partners Nations Non-MilitaryAgencies

Non-Government Organizations

Non-Traditional

Data Sources Other Systems

Internet

Information Sharing


Collaboration

What Does APAN Do?Calendars and Events

Collaborative DocumentsMultilingual Text Chat

Online DiscussionsSocial NetworkingWeb Conferencing

File SharingInformation Feeds

Language TranslationPersonalized Dashboard

NotificationsSearch

Data FeedsData Visualization

Information and Data ContextGeospatial Views (Maps)

Integrate with External SystemsStructured Data

What is APAN Used For?

• Humanitarian Assistance

• Security Cooperation

• Training and Exercises

Where is APAN Used?

Asia-PacificEurope

AfricaSouth America

USG

Support Provided By APAN

• Helpdesk • Training

• Consulting

• Software Development

Communities of Interest

Communities of Practice

Communities of Responders

Partners Interagency

NGONon-Traditional

HA/DR Model

Data Sources Other Systems

Future Focus Areas for APAN

• User Experience• Situational Awareness• Unstructured to Structured Data• Geospatial Capabilities• Data Visualization• Integration with External Systems• Mobile and Low Bandwidth• Language Translation• Enhanced Profiles and Context• Inference and Discoverability Engine• Incorporation of Common Methodologies

Demonstration

http://community.apan.org/

Operation Unified Response: Haiti

Timeline of Events

Jan 10 Jan 12 Feb 1 Apr 1st

• APAN representatives arrive to SOUTHCOM for exercise planning discussions

• Haiti earthquake occurs• USSOUTHCOM designated lead for US military response (in support to USAID)• USSOUTHCOM declares APAN the official point for unclassified coordination• More than 1,000 responders join APAN and begin coordinating within 48

hours• APAN establishes 24/7 technical and user support and extends onsite

presence

• More than 1,900 responders are coordinating on APAN• Onsite support at USSOUTHCOM returns to USPACOM• 2,185 responders on APAN

Who Coordinated on APAN?

• Countries Represented = 56• Organizations Represented:

• US military and agencies• International military and agencies• Non-Government Organizations

• Average active or concurrent users = ~400• Average time spent on the site per session:

• 20.3% at 20 min – 1 hour• 30.76% at 5 min – 20 min

The First Two Weeks:• RFI Threads = 88 and 302 Responses• RFA Threads = 51 and 115

APAN

Information Sharing


Collaboration

How Did Members Participate?Technologies.

Technologies • Blogs• Email Gateway / Mobile• Geo/RSS Data Feeds• Files• Forum Discussions • Google Earth• Metadata & Tagging• Micro-Blogging• Notifications• Profiles and Reputation• Sub Groups• Systems Integration• Text Chat

APAN

Information Sharing


Collaboration

How Did Members Participate?Activities.

Activities • Focus Groups• Imagery• Operational View• Mission Update Briefs• Requests for Assistance • Requests for Information• Significant Events• Situational Reports• Situational Updates

Everything is a Situational Update

“Hospital Sacre Coeur in Milot Haiti is appealing for patients. NEED COORDINATION TO GET HELOS TO HOSPITAL”

2-Days Later• 112 new patients from 20• 12 Helo landings• 17 new foreign doctors

4-Days Later• Expanded into nearby school• Expanded capacity by 100• New COTS and equipment• Coordinated resupply

Mobility and Metadata Supporting Situational Awareness

Lessons Learned: What Worked?

• Initial Communication • Simplicity

• Profiles • Mobile and low bandwidth support

• Integrating data and systems

Lessons Learned: Challenges

• Releasability of Information

• Too Much Information

• Structured vs Unstructured • Unified Approach and Methodology

Road Ahead for APAN

• More Mobility Support• Improved Language Support• Improved User Experience• Automatic Tagging and Context• Contextual Operational View• Interactive Operational View (GeoWiki)• Enhanced Profiles and Discoverability• System and Data Integration • Preconfigured for a Methodology

Backup Slides

Unclassified

Accredited

Non .mil

DISA Gig Waiver

PACOM Funded

Operated by PWC

PACOM Owned

DAA Oversight

what is APAN

Security Cooperation


Open Source Research

Information Distribution

Joint Training

Humanitarian Assistance

Disaster Response

Coalition Exercises

what APAN

supports

Complete Integrated Suite

Focus on Personalization

Focus on Communication

Focus on Collaboration

Industry Driven

4th Evolution of APAN

Stakeholder Driven

Technology Refresh

What is APAN

v4

Structured Collaboration

Working Groups

Specific Events

Organizational

Operations

Projects

Structured Content

Document Management

Records Management

Closed Membership

Temporal

Personalization

Context and Relevancy

Connections

Dashboards

Discovery

Profiles

Dashboards

Monitoring

Blend of Content

Content Syndication

Following Connections

Self-Focused

Ongoing

Unstructured Collaboration

Communities

Information Sharing

Lessons Learned

Cross-Organizational

Research and Analysis

Unstructured Content

Forum Discussions

Networks of People

Collaborative Documents

Open Membership

Ongoing


Information Discovery

Communication

Situational Awareness

Disseminate Knowledge to the Right People

Enable Effective Collaboration

Capture Knowledge

Build Network of SME’s

OperationalObjectives

RSS Syndication & Aggregation

XMPP Chat

User Personalization

File Management

Search

Communities

Blogs, Forums, Wikis, and Profiles

Accessibility

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