The Telecommunications Emergency Decision Support System as a crisis management decision support system

The Telecommunication Emergency Decision Support System (TEDSS) is an automated management tool to aid the government in the management of the nation's telecommunications resources during a national emergency. The current version of TEDSS uses conventional database technology which is rapidly becoming inadequate to entice the "computer naïve" manager to use the system under pressure. The National Communication's System which oversees TEDSS is very interested in opportunities to incorporate emerging technologies into its program. the purpose of this thesis is to consider TEDSS in the context of Crisis Management Decision Support Systems (CMDSS) in order to determine generic requirements for a CMDSS, survey the technology current implementations, and assess the potential for applying this technology to a revision of TEDSS. A further objective is to survey emerging technologies not found in CMDSS which can be transferred to TEDSS. The result of the research indicates that technology found in CMDSS is not much more advanced than TEDSS. Emerging technologies which would enhance crisis decision making for TEDSS includes geographical information systems, graphical user interfaces, optical storage and voice recognition.

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Administrative Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1992

Author dc:creator

• Carthon, Mitchel

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Dolk, Daniel R.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/28594

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/28594