Human collaboration in homeland security / Robert Irving Desourdis and Kuan Hengameh Collins (Fairfax, Va, and others), editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desourdis, Robert Irving, editor.

Collins, Kuan Hengameh, editor.

Series:

Law, crime and law enforcement.

Law, crime and law enforcement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Law and legislation--United States.

National security.

Civil defense--Law and legislation--United States.

Civil defense.

Computer security--Law and legislation--United States.

Computer security.

Cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (703 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

Why are the same planning failures that led to the loss of 2,400 Americans at Pearl Harbor apparent in the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina response, Virginia Tech shootings, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? Why are we surprised when cyber-attacks disrupt our IT systems, internal spies publish our protected information, mentally ill or volatile individuals attack police and innocent people, and trusted state or federal employees turn out to be untrustworthy and release critical secrets to enemies or the world? These are all attributable to failures in the ability of people to work together, or collaborate, for our protection. The failure is not that of the first responders or warfighters, to whom this book is dedicated. On the contrary, these heroes must show superior initiative and risk self-sacrifice while the stove-piped-organization system planners and vendors with no skin in the game risk nothing. These leaders, planners, scientists, engineers, managers, administrators, salespeople and others are wholly responsible for the technological innovation, processes and products used, but these people are almost never on-scene when an incident occurs.Part I of our book explains to both the general reader and homeland security experts alike, what individual and organizational factors are needed to establish a collaborative environment. These factors include organizational trust, knowledge management, organizational structure, organizational culture, and leadership. These collaboration factors provide the basis for Part II, where we look at the important contributions of actual homeland security practitioners. These practitioners describe the role of human collaboration in making peace, bombing the Third Reich (by a member of the Greatest Generation), disaster management, public safety communications interoperability, electric power restoration, medical support for mass sheltering, government healthcare, cybersecurity, science diplomacy, technology innovation, government acquisition, systems engineering, and intellectual property litigation. Finally, in Part III, we describe a methodology for comprehensive collaboration planning (CCP) to optimize planning for day-to-day or rare "grey swan" or unexpected "black swan" events.In the end, we show that achieving these five collaboration factors ultimately requires direct interaction between the people involved in any homeland security endeavor, and not the technology they envision, develop, buy, sell, deploy, operate and sustain. It does not matter what you buy if the people who use it - or with whom they must collaborate in a crisis as well as day-to-day unexpected events - do not have their act together. The bottom line is that how well people do together in any homeland security (or other) domain depends exclusively on the success of human-to-human interoperability and interaction. This interaction is governed by long-known and waning (in an e-world) rules of civility, such as George Washington documented and practiced some time ago.With Forewords by renowned historian Edwin Bearss, experienced homeland security practitioner Ken Born, and mental health professional Anthony Rogers, the emphasis of this book ("it's the people, not the stuff") demonstrates the success of our homeland security ? and everything else, including the technology utilized ? is solely dependent on how well the people work together.

Contents:

Understanding collaboration (Kuan Hengameh Collins, Doctor of Management, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA)

Building a collaborative culture (Kuan Hengameh Collins, Doctor of Management, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA)

A conceptual model for collaboration (Kuan Hengameh Collins, Doctor of Management, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA)

Collaboration factors and i-collaboration: virtual trust in the connected world (Kuan Hengameh Collins, Doctor of Management, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA)

Analysis of human collaboration for homeland security (Robert Irving Desourdis and Kuan Hengameh Collins, Solution Architect, Master, Desourdis Collaboration, LLC, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, and others)

Collaboration practice in homeland security

Preface to part II. a failure of men

Human collaboration in making a peace to prevent all wars (Robert Irving Desourdis, Solution Architect, Master, Desourdis Collaboration, LLC, Fairfax, Virginia, USA)

Human collaboration in bombing the third reich (Bernard Thomas Nolan)

Human collaboration in disaster response (Walter Michael Kurgan, Cape Charles, Virginia, USA)

Human collaboration in communications interoperability (David J. Mulholland, CEO and founder, Rylex Public Safety Consulting, Huntingtown, Maryland, USA)

Human collaboration in speeding power restoration (Thomas Moran, Executive Director, all hazards consortium, Frederick, Maryland, USA)

Human collaboration in medical support for mass sheltering (Lisa Karin Jackson, Medical Reserve Corps Director-Coordinator, President of Preparedness Specialty Services, Emergency Management Director, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA)

Human collaboration in government health care (Jason Michael Reese, United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD), Bethesda, Maryland, USA)

Human collaboration in cybersecurity (Timothy Andrew Flynn and Tor MacLeod, Cybercore Security, INC, Riva, MD, USA, and others)

Human collaboration in science diplomacy (Sally Daultrey, Geopolitical Analyst, Cogency Research, London, United Kingdom)

Human collaboration in technology innovation (Robert Irving Desourdis, Theodore Manakas, Kristina Lynn Tajchman and Andrew Lawrence Spector, Solution Architect, Master, and others)

Human collaboration in government acquisition (Evelyn Depalma, owner, EMD Proconsulting, LLC, Woodbridge, Virginia, USA)

Human collaboration in systems engineering (Robert Irving Desourdis and Kristina Lynn Tajchman, Solution Architect, Master, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, and others)

Human collaboration in intellectual property litigation (Carmine R. Zarlenga, Litigation and Trial Attorney, Washington, DC, USA)

Improving collaboration in homeland security

Preface to part III. Achieving collaboration in homeland security

Comprehensive collaboration planning for hastily formed networks (Jean-François Cloutier, collaboration planners LLC, Principal, Portland, Maine, USA)

Software-assisted comprehensive collaboration planning (Jean-François Cloutier, Collaboration Planners LLC, Principal, Portland, Maine, USA)

Web technology to support collaboration planning (David Kamien, Michael Kelly, Tope Omitola, and Gary Wills, CEO & Founder, Mind-Alliance Systems, LLC, Roseland, NJ, USA, and others).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-1956-3