Projects to Date

Submitted by cglusky on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 20:43.
  • Demos
    • National Defense University (NDU) (Oct 5-19)
    • Pentagon center court (Nov 19-20)
    • Camp in western Virginia for long-term exposure testing
  • Over 600 visitors:  
    • GEN Ward (AFRICOM), John Grimes (ASD/NII), Ryan Henry (PDUSDP), DoD and DHS leaders, CoCom reps, AMCROSS, Thomas Jefferson HS, many others
  • Follow-on support to SOCAL fires & Bangladesh relief
  • Now examining low-cost shelters for FEMA
  • Less than $20K govt funds generated over $800K in private sector engagement
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Activities Update

Submitted by linwells on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 04:43.

During 2008, STAR-TIDES has participated in:

  • Demonstrations and Conferences
    • Capitol Yacht Club, Washington DC--use of waterborne assets in emergency planning
    • AFCEA West conference, San Diego CA
    • Crisis Management Experiment III, Honduras
    • NDIA Logistics Conference, Miami
    • Africa Command Exhibit, Stuttgart, Germany
    • FA-Hum (Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias), El Salvador
    • AFCEA Joint Warfighting Conference, Virginia Beach
    • Golden Phoenix, multi-stakeholder first responder training, San Diego area
  • Different kinds of STAR-TIDES shelters completed six months of exposure testing in western Virginia, with the principal damage being UV delamination of tape and attacks by bears
  •  Support was provided to requests for infrastructures suitable for the Canadian Arctic and victims of cyclone Nargis in Myanmar
  • Extensive work has been done in Nangarhar Province in Eastern Afghanistan supporting increased bandwidth for NGOs and Afghan citizens and the installation of a Fab Lab  from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.  
  • Efforts are underway to make more US government imagery available to business, government and civil society stakeholders who are participating in humanitarian assistance, economic capacity- building and related missions
  • Planning is underway for a "field demonstration" (off the power grid) in the Washington, DC area during the week of October 6.

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