Common Operating Picture 11
Common Operating Picture 11 : "The COP is the principal situational awareness tool within the NOC [National Operations Center, DHS] and is the cornerstone of the National Reporting System. This real-time, web-based tool ties together key homeland security partners primarily at the Federal, State, and Joint Field Office (JFO) levels. The COP was the direct result of the Department's internal reviews following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the White House Katrina lessons learned report. It was initially available for the 2006 Hurricane season and has the following features: (1) Is accessible through the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) (2) Provides Federal departments and agencies with the capability to share critical information (3) Establishes an inter-agency common operating database (4) Develops a shared interagency understanding of the situation (5) Provides information integrity for reporting requirements (6) Facilitates timely decision making The COP includes functional screens that address the National and International Situation Summaries, executive actions, requests for information, responder status, chronology of events, critical infrastructure, mapping products, media reports, streaming video from the incident site, the latest incident updates, metrics, and other HSIN information. As part of our incremental approach, we are advancing the COP capabilities from natural disasters to all hazards and all threats. Our "next steps" are intended to further enhance the COP capabilities from exclusively an unclassified, hurricanes/natural disaster centric tool to include a classified, all-hazards capability. We are currently focusing on the "worst case" scenarios for nuclear/radiological incidents and will use national exercises and real world events to validate and continue its overall development". (DHS, Statement of Frank DiFalco, Director of the NOC, June 20, 2007, p. 4)
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