DTRA: Social behavior modeling system can help response planning before catastrophe strikes

dvidshub.net - March 7th, 2013 - Deveney Wall

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency introduced a social behavior modeling system that may make Joint Task Force Civil Support’s response to a natural or man-made disaster more efficient.

Members of DTRA visited JTF-CS last week to discuss how the Comprehensive National Incident Management System – or “CNIMS” - can assist with planning efforts to “reduce, eliminate, counter, and mitigate” the effects of threats within the United States.

The system, which is a Virginia Tech research program, uses a collection of interoperable simulations of societal infrastructures, coupled with individual-based social networks, to simulate up to 300 million individuals, 100 million locations, and temporal scale of minutes and a spatial scale of a few meters.

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