Reposted from EMR-ISAC

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a report, Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research: Landscape Assessment.

The report offers a summary of peer-reviewed research in emergency management (EM) from 2018 to 2023. The report was compiled in support of the Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research (EMOTR) Program, which is administered by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with support from DHS S&T.

The purpose of this report was to identify current EM research, elicit capability needs from EM practitioners, and identify where technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), may benefit the future of EM and emergency operations centers. As part of the EMOTR Program, the findings of the report will support DHS S&T in exploring future investment options for technology used by emergency management practitioners.

Some notable findings of the report include:

• A need persists to improve existing information management systems, particularly during large-scale events with multi-jurisdictional responses that require the activation of mutual aid agreements.
• Information technology professionals are missing or underrepresented in the emergency operations center.
• PNNL identified several research areas of high interest among academic institutions, national laboratories, and research centers, where opportunities for research collaboration may exist: social media analytics, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML), community resilience, satellite technology, emergency response solutions to power grid issues, evacuation response, Smart City applications and informatics ecosystems, and critical infrastructure damage assessments.

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