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“$2,000,000 to The New School-Parsons Institute for Information Mapping for Parsons Institute for Information Mapping for Defense Health Program's TRICARE System and the AHLTA”

Sponsor: Rep. Nadler (D-NY)  

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dogear wrote:

Here are the 4 projects being pursued:
1. BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) Visualization
The 2005 BRAC recommendation describes in great detail the flow of troops, civilian jobs and military equipment that will occur over the next ten years in response to a massive base realignment and closure scheme. This information, however, is spread over many hundreds of pages that obscure the interdependencies between states as well as economic and environmental ramifications.

2. Emergency Operation Center
Shared Situational Awareness (EOC) Tool
This desktop-based visual platform is an integrated, intuitive environment for enabling situation awareness, in use by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The EOC allows users to "drill down" for further information about narrative event data, and to share and exchange such information.

3. Network Analysis & Visualization
Network visualizations are proving to be critical tools in the arsenal of understanding massive, yet incomplete and potentially unreliable data. Networks can be represented in a multitude of forms. Node-link diagrams can expose network vulnerabilities, highlight optimal paths, and cluster nodes for analysis. Radial formats provide alternate ways of layering, integrating, and navigating networks. Quantitative icons can help to explore the dynamics of interacting subnetworks.

4. SOURCE
Do We Know What We Don't Know?
Source is a proposed software environment where a community of researchers will be able to contribute information at any temporal or spatial resolution, and at varying levels of detail and formality. The tool will highlight data that are consistent across datasets with regard to data format, resolution and availability. The tool will also highlight those aspects that remain incommensurable. Additionally, the researchers will be provided a set of visualization tools that will allow them to analyze and reason with both quantitative and qualitative information as well as gauge what areas of the information space are still poorly defined, thus fostering future work and data gathering.

posted November 10, 2007 at 9:18 p.m.