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Revision of Goals and Participants from Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:05

STAR-TIDES has three goals:

  • Leverage Global Network!
  • Promote Integrated Approaches!
  • Sustain Through the Private Sector!

Desired Capabilities

  • Fast. Delivery, set-up, using local materials wherever possible.
  • Agile. Multi-use, Reconfigurable.
  • Effective. Sustainable, secure, low-cost.

Key Infrastructures

  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Power
  • Integrated Combustion and Solar Cooking
  • Cooling/Lighting/Heating
  • Sanitation
  • Information and Communications Technology

Participants include (both past and present):

  • American Red Cross www.redcross.org
  • Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at National Defense University http://www.ndu.edu/ctnsp/home.html
  • Engineers Without Borders http://www.ewb-usa.org
  • Hexayurt Project http://hexayurt.com
  • Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) http://instedd.org
  • Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) www.effectivestates.org
  • Johns Hopkins University www.jhu.edu
  • Nanyang Technological University—Lien Institute for the Environment (LIFE) http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/CEE/life/index.html
  • MITRE www.mitre.org
  • National Institute for Urban Search & Rescue, Readiness, Response, Resilience, Recovery (NIUSR) http://www.niusr.org
  • San Diego State University www.sdsu.edu
  • United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/
  • United States Marine Corps www.usmc.mil

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    About STAR-TIDES

    TIDES stands for Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support. This research project is coordinated at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU), which is part of the Department of Defense. All Information is intended to be in the public domain. All Information on this website is free, open source, and in the public domain. Ideas expressed, or products displayed, on the website, or in other TIDES or STAR-TIDES activities, should not be considered as endorsed by anyone else, Including the US government, nor should they be considered any form of commitment.

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