Pearl Harbor, 9–11, Katrina, Virginia Tech shootings, Deepwater Horizon planning deficiencies: A sense-respond information-sharing solution

The deficiencies of leadership and planning documented in the 1946 Congressional investigation of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack are also evident in evidence presented at the investigations of 9/11, Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, Deepwater Horizon, the Columbine shootings, and Exxon Valdez. Even day-to-day incidents in a major Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) region with massive technology investment suffers from these deficiencies. Mitigating and eliminating these deficiencies requires detailed information-sharing planning to replace the legacy ad hoc publish-and-subscribe methods pervasive today in public safety and emergency management, which - for many reasons - sustains the causes and effects of these planning deficiencies. This paper presents a conceptual sense-respond information-sharing architecture driven by a nonmonotonic-reasoning-based intelligent kernel. The process of implementing this proactive decision-support capability for day-to-day as well as major incidents/events as well as the use of the tool itself will together mitigate and eventually eliminate the Pearl Harbor deficiencies.