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Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Institute

SEPRI. SEPRI. Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Institute. Integrating Solutions Facilitating Real Time Decisions. Opportunity. National priority prevent, detect, respond, recover State economic development priority Battelle S&T Roadmap Substantial new funding

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Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Institute

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  1. SEPRI SEPRI Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Institute Integrating Solutions Facilitating Real Time Decisions

  2. Opportunity • National priority • prevent, detect, respond, recover • State economic development priority • Battelle S&T Roadmap • Substantial new funding • $4.43B DHS information technology (FY05) • $1.2B DHS R&D budget (FY05) • $987M science & technology research (FY05) • $79M DHS Centers of Excellence (FY04) • HS research portfolio in most agencies

  3. Urgency • No established national leaders • UMass is competitive • Fluid research agenda • UMass can influence research priorities • Multi-disciplinary research • UMass can integrate campus expertise • Multi-dimensional response • UMass can provide research, education, and training

  4. Mission To develop a revolutionary new paradigm for the design, operation, and verification of emergency response systems Applications Training Acquisition Computer Science Psychology Processing Engineering Sociology Fundamental Research SEPRI Decision Making Food Science Public Health & Nursing Polymer Sc. & Chemistry BioSystems New Technologies

  5. Emergency Response Effective, coordinated response Real-time intelligence/ threat info Data Info Data Decision/policy layer Transportation network Info Data Health-care network Coasts and harbors Application layer Hardware layer Data Data Vulnerability Simulator Emergency Response Grid Regular operations coordination Training personnel

  6. Institute Organization SEPRI FUNDING Federal, State & Corporate Research Labs CLIENTS Local, State & Federal Agencies RESEARCH SERVICE EDUCATION PARTNERS First Responders State & Federal Emergency Planning DoD, DoE Government Labs Non-Profit Organizations Medical & Healthcare Providers Emergency Response System Developers Technology Integrators Industrial R&D Centers Universities Training and Outreach Providers

  7. Functional Organization Medicalpartners University partners NIH Projects IGERT DHS Center of Excellence NEHSC MAPC Federal Appropriation Training Group Federal Lab partners Corporatepartners SEPRI State & Local Agency partners

  8. UMass Amherst Emergency Response Research 2001-2204 Federal Grants: $38M

  9. Campus HS Profile • Faculty representing 6 colleges • 160 faculty have HS related interests • Significant recent funded research • $38M funded research in past 3 years (30 PIs, 90 projects) • Nationally prominent programs • Sensors & sensor network, communication & networking, complex systems, etc • Leveraging current success • CASA ERC

  10. Faculty Initiatives • Faculty Leadership - Clarke, Deshmukh, Fisher, Henneman, Hird, Reckhow, Rotello • DHS Center of Excellence in Emergency Response ($18M over 3 years) - Clarke, Deshmukh (12 UMass faculty, 4 NE universities, 5 industrial partners, 3 government labs, 2 hospitals and 5 state agencies) • Mass EOPS Center for Information Integration ($3-4M per year) - Clarke, Deshmukh, Fisher, Osterweil, Jensen • Medical Emergency Response Infrastructure - Clarke, Corkill, Deshmukh, Henneman, Levine, Osterweil • NIH Emergency Response Training Methods - Corkill, Woolf

  11. Faculty Initiatives (cont.) • US-Israel Collaboration ($150K) - Corkill, Deshmukh, Rosenberg, Zilberstein • Metropolitan Area Planning Council - Corkill, Oppenheimer, Hilton • Mass DOT Variable Message Signage - Fisher, Shuldiner • FDA Food Safety - Levin, McLandsborough • DARPA Knowledge Discovery - Jensen

  12. Center Goals • Funding - $5-6M/year in 3-5 years • Recognition - DHS Center of Excellence • Research - integrate technological, cognitive and social aspects of emergency response • Service - focal point for MA research, development and training related to HS • Teaching - new multi-disciplinary educational programs in HS/ER • Commercialization - transitioning research into products

  13. Research Themes • Hardware Layer • Biological & chemical detectors • Protective composites and polymers • Energy efficient sensors • Ad-hoc wireless networks • Application Layer • Distributed inferencing and knowledge acquisition • Process languages • Dynamic data-driven analysis • Enhanced middleware services • Decision Layer • Distributed coordination • Public policy-technology interactions • Cognitive models of risk • Shared mental models in teams • End-User Domains • Healthcare systems • Coasts and harbors • Transportation systems • Energy infrastructure • Communication networks

  14. EC BM SA Bacterial Biosensor UNPOLYMERIZED MONOMERS The detector, after being prepared to detect E. coli does not respond to non-target cells. Change in Frequency (Hz) Time (seconds)

  15. Energy Efficiency Goal:Minimize overall energy consumption for prolonged sensor network operation Approach: • Low power hardware variable f and VDD (<3V, sleep modes, P=Cpv·f·VDD2) • Energy harvesting from environment • Computational vs. communication energy

  16. Goose Other Grid services GT3 data services GT3 base services GT3 security services GT3 core Enhanced Middleware Integration of Heterogeneous Systems in the Grid Environment • Small hand held devices for emergency response personal • portable SOAP version to access grid services • ensure secure data transfer • Interoperability of different grid software • common protocols among grid cluster • share resources • common database interface

  17. GIS Emergency Response ToolsSpringfield – Population/plume overlay

  18. Ant Algorithms Goals: • Develop search algorithms based on pheromone deposition methods used in ant food foraging for combinatorial optimization problems • Parallelize the algorithms on the grid Results: • Solved largest benchmark TSP problems in orders of magnitude less compute times • Applications in dynamic packet routing

  19. Evacuation: Highways and Biways

  20. Shared Mental Models Goal: Determine what and how collaborators share information Preliminary Results: • Individual’s mental models converge over time • Mental model content shifts from general to specific over time • Cognitive agreement positively impacts team performance Teamwork SMM Orientation Differentiation Integration YES Taskwork SMM NO Changes or adjustments required?

  21. Major Funding Sources • DHS Center of Excellence • Emergency Response Management • NIH • Information Management in Disasters • NSF • Cyber Infrastructure Initiative • DOD • MURI - DURIP Program

  22. Other Funding Avenues • State HS Offices • EOPS • State Public Health Programs • Rhode Island HEALTH Initiative • DOT • ITS Program • Several targeted RFPs from DOD branches, DARPA, DOE and NASA

  23. Service and Outreach • Technology Assessment Testbed • Computational grid (~400 nodes) • Proof-of-concept capability • Unbiased evaluation - team with MITRE • Emergency Response Roundtable • Venue for government, non-profit, industrial and academic partners to exchange concepts • Emergency Response Conference • Environmental Terrorism Panel

  24. Education and Training • Multi-disciplinary Curriculum • NSF-IGERT • Emergency response undergraduate minor • First Responder Programs • UMass Online platform

  25. Economic Impact • New Products and Industries • Sensors and sensor networks • Biological and chemical sensors • Ad-hoc sensor networks • Computational grids • Grid services • Large scale system integration • Healthcare systems • Transportation • Borders and coastline • Information aggregation • Data mining and knowledge discovery

  26. Economic Impact • Technology Assessment Testbed • Collaborate with Hanscom and MITRE • Competitive resource for small businesses • Risk Mitigation • Reduction in economic and human losses in emergencies • Lower risk rating resulting in substantial savings for small communities

  27. Next Steps • Proposal for UMass President’s S&T initiative funds • DHS Center proposal • FY05 Federal and State legislative appropriations • Mass EOPS initiative • Develop and foster partnerships • Support inter-disciplinary proposals

  28. Industrial Partners • IBM • Raytheon • Lucent - Bell Labs • MITRE • Geo-Centers - EAI • Court Square • BAE Systems • General Dynamics • Partners Healthcare

  29. Academic Partners • Baystate Medical Center • Dartmouth College • MIT • Harvard • University of Maine • University of New Hampshire • University of Rhode Island

  30. Federal/State/Local Partners • Sandia Labs • Natick Army Labs • Lincoln Labs • Mass DOT, DPH, DEP • MassPort • Metropolitan Area Planning Council • Boston EMS • Western Mass Regional LEPC

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