"Common operating pictures, also known as common operational pictures, are computer displays created to provide multiple users with a real-time view, also called situational awareness, of a series of events, such as rescue activities following an attack or natural disaster. DHS' national common operating picture uses National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency mapping capabilities and is incorporating dynamic, real-time data.... The Homeland Security Department earlier this year [2006] activated its Common Operating Picture for the National Operations Center. The agency rushed creation of it immediately after Hurricane Katrina to create situational awareness. Over the following months, those efforts became the national system..... A source of data for the DHS national common operating picture is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its Palanterra application, a map-based common operating picture. It includes overlays for critical infrastructure, including transportation, medical centers, water plants, power facilities and some financial and IT infrastructure...." (Lipowicz, "Fine Tuning Needed," Washington Technology, October 16, 2006; See also: White House, National Strategy for Information Sharing, October 2007, p. 21) )