On November 30, "This Week in Defense News"on WUSA (channel 9, CBS, in the Washington, DC area) ran a piece about some of the charitable organizations that participate in, and share ideas with STAR-TIDES on ways to provide support in emergencies and disasters. See link for the video clip:
http://www.defensenewstv.com/index.php?o=true&i=mostrecent.xml
"Vago's Notebook, November 30."

If you'd like to learn more about the organizations that Vago mentioned, and some other charities that provide humanitarian support to help reduce instabilities and mitigate stresses on populations, please read on.

Here are links to the recent news articles about the demos.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/fast-cheap-and.html,

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51523

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=169&sid=1500332

Figure 1 presents an overview of the STAR-TIDES research approach.  Wherever possible, STAR-TIDES should leverage work being done in other areas and related projects.  There is no intent to duplicate other efforts, or funding.

This is a brief overview of TIDES.