ACADEMIA
SPADAC to Participate in Strong Angel III Integrated Disaster Response Demo
SPADAC today announced its participation in Strong Angel III, a collaborative demonstration of civil and military cooperation and communication capabilities put together by a partnership of private companies, government agencies, humanitarian and relief agencies and universities. Hosted by San Diego State University and taking place in San Diego August 21-26, Strong Angel III will field test effective means of delivering life-saving humanitarian relief and rapidly deployable communications systems in the wake of major disasters. 
The central site for Strong Angel III will be the operations center at the San Diego Fire Department Fire Rescue Training Facility site, located at the former Naval Training Center near downtown San Diego. San Diego State University's Visualization Center will be a secondary location. The Strong Angel III demonstration will be conducted within the context of a simulated lethal worldwide pandemic caused by a highly contagious virus, which is further complicated by a wave of simulated cyber-attacks inflicted by hypothetical terrorists that cripple critical local infrastructure and systems. Strong Angel III team members will conduct field trials and demonstrations of solutions that address 49 specific humanitarian relief challenges -- both technical and social -- that have not yet been adequately overcome in real disaster relief efforts. SPADAC will support the Strong Angel III demonstration, applying our patent-pending geospatial analytical technology and processes to evaluate the primary threats and secondary consequences of a pandemic threat on critical infrastructure. SPADAC will provide decision makers and leaders insight into resource allocation, mitigation alternatives, and response & recovery priorities. Focusing on communication and interoperability, SPADAC will deliver visual models that assess the breadth of infrastructure classes (transportation, emergency services, medical-health, defense, energy, etc.) or particular risk areas such as defense and border security. "We are honored to participate in Strong Angel," explained Mark Dumas, SPADAC's CEO and Chairman. "The mission and objectives are a perfect expression of an inter-connected world -- one in which we strive to answer critical challenges collectively. We are thrilled to consider SPADAC's contribution to Strong Angel as a mirror of our own vision -- empowering owners of the world's critical decisions with actionable intelligence." Strong Angel III sponsors include Bell Canada, Cisco Systems, CommsFirst, Microsoft, Save the Children, Sprint Nextel, Google and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The central site for Strong Angel III will be the operations center at the San Diego Fire Department Fire Rescue Training Facility site, located at the former Naval Training Center near downtown San Diego. San Diego State University's Visualization Center will be a secondary location. The Strong Angel III demonstration will be conducted within the context of a simulated lethal worldwide pandemic caused by a highly contagious virus, which is further complicated by a wave of simulated cyber-attacks inflicted by hypothetical terrorists that cripple critical local infrastructure and systems. Strong Angel III team members will conduct field trials and demonstrations of solutions that address 49 specific humanitarian relief challenges -- both technical and social -- that have not yet been adequately overcome in real disaster relief efforts. SPADAC will support the Strong Angel III demonstration, applying our patent-pending geospatial analytical technology and processes to evaluate the primary threats and secondary consequences of a pandemic threat on critical infrastructure. SPADAC will provide decision makers and leaders insight into resource allocation, mitigation alternatives, and response & recovery priorities. Focusing on communication and interoperability, SPADAC will deliver visual models that assess the breadth of infrastructure classes (transportation, emergency services, medical-health, defense, energy, etc.) or particular risk areas such as defense and border security. "We are honored to participate in Strong Angel," explained Mark Dumas, SPADAC's CEO and Chairman. "The mission and objectives are a perfect expression of an inter-connected world -- one in which we strive to answer critical challenges collectively. We are thrilled to consider SPADAC's contribution to Strong Angel as a mirror of our own vision -- empowering owners of the world's critical decisions with actionable intelligence." Strong Angel III sponsors include Bell Canada, Cisco Systems, CommsFirst, Microsoft, Save the Children, Sprint Nextel, Google and the U.S. Department of Defense.