Israel Home Front Command Overview and R&D programs Early Warning and Informa?on Systems

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Israel Home Front Command

Overview and R&D programs

Early Warning and Informa?on Systems

Maj. Alex Blekhman, Ph.D.

Head of Development Sec?on

[email protected]

LTC Ido Orlov

Head of Opera?ons Branch

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Overview and R&D Programs

Early Warning and Informa?on Systems

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Israel Home Front Command -‐

Overview

• Israel Home Front Command holds the

responsibility for

civil defense and

support

, popula?on guidance and large-‐

scale opera?onal response in emergency

scenarios.

• The Home Front Command belongs to

the Ministry of Defense and operates

under a legal status deﬁned in the

Civil

Defense Law (1951)

. This law speciﬁes

the mission of the

Civil Defense Service

(evolved into Home Front Command in

1992) as: "… to take all measures

required for protec?ng the civilian

popula?on … capitalizing on saving

lives".

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Home Front Command in brief

• First responders

: Search and Rescue, CBRNe response,

Civil Assistance

• ResponsibiliAes and RegulaAon

• PopulaAon guidance

(more details from Maj. Sivan

Inbar later…)

• Research and development

–

 

C&C systems, HFC Simula?ve Training Center

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Na?onal Informa?on System for Response and Resilience

research

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Interna?onal R&D partnering

• InformaAon, communicaAon and early warning

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HFC – First Responders

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Home front C2 Command post

Search and Rescue teams

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Na?onal Search and Rescue Unit

• Words of the Commander -‐ Col. RamAn SabaA

• “Since the establishment of the Na?onal Search

and Rescue Unit in 1984, NSAR unit has become

a professional unit of high quality and availability,

as a response team to events and disasters in

Israel and around the world. NSAR unit has

shown its special skills and abili?es in numerous

events, saving the lives of many in Israel and

abroad.

• The duty of the soldiers and oﬃcers of the unit

expresses the value of giving, mutual aid and

dedica?on by their willingness to volunteer to

serve in the unit, ready to be called up at any

moment, and to put their lives in danger in order

to save the lives of others”.

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NSAR -‐ Past InternaAonal OperaAons

•  1988 – Armenia (earthquake)

•  1994 – Argen?na (bombing of the Jewish Community Center)

•  1998 – Nairobi, Kenya (bombing of the American Embassy)

•  1999 – Greece (earthquake)

•  1999 – Turkey (earthquake)

•  2001 – India (earthquake)

•  2004 – Taba, Egypt (car bombing)

•  2006 – Kenya (collapse of a building)

•  2008 – Mumbai, India (earthquake)

•  2010 – Hai? (earthquake)

•  2010 – Columbia (humanitarian assistance)

•  2011 – Japan (medical assistance)

•  2012 – Ghana (collapse of a building)

•  2013 – Philippines (typhoon)

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5. Volunteers 4. HAZMAT 3. ProtecAon Plan 2. Training 1. Reference _Scenario

10. Quarters 9. Control _System 8. ExaminaAon _{and Guidance}7. InstrucAon 6. Special _Needs

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Research and Development at HFC

Command & Control Systems

Road decon Impact point and

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Research and Development at HFC

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Na?onal Informa?on System for

Response and Resilience

Network Technology for

Resilience

Research Report

May 2015

Israel Ministry of Defense Home Front Command

Israel Home

Front Command

Task lead:

Dr. Alex Blekhman

Network

Technology

for Resilience

Head Coordinator: Maj. Max Goldenberg

Head of Development Branch: LTC Ronnen Avny Research Report May 2015

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Partnering in internaAonal R&D

programs

• The Home Front Command is involved in numerous research

projects, local and foreign.

• We welcome the involvement in mutual R&D projects and see this

as a tool the development of state-‐of-‐the-‐art technology and

building mul?-‐partner network for knowledge and concept

exchange.

• In technological projects, our classical roles are:

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Analysis and speciﬁcaAon

of needs, technologies, products and

interoperability -‐ based on prac?cal knowledge and opera?onal

experience.

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System engineering and project management

-‐ with close rela?on to

opera?onal end users, bringing in the input from the ﬁeld at early

stage of the project.

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Large scale operaAonal end-‐user evaluaAon and tesAng

of products

and technology -‐ in diverse scenarios and training facili?es as needed.

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Informa?on, communica?on and early

warning systems:

Early Warning mission

• Mul?ple threat detec?on and assessment

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Man made [Ballis?c threats, hazardous materials, terror]

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Natural Disasters [Earthquake, tsunami]

• Alert distribu?on

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Selec?vely relevant to threatened zone

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In ?me to facilitate eﬀec?ve self-‐protec?on

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To everyone, everywhere via mul?ple plaoorms

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Reliable + dependable – Minimal FAR

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Early Warning Opera?onal Concept

Threat Assessment

Threat Detec?on

Return to

Rou?ne Consequence Management Instruc?ons Ongoing

Target Zone EW AcAvaAon Self Protec?ve Measures

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EW Psycho-‐physiology

15 Icons Text Colour Sound Speech Changes Prior experience Knowledge Understanding threat Understanding EW Tac?le vibrate

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Correct, appropriate & ?mely execu?on of procedure

Fight or Flight mechanism

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EW Plaoorms in Israel

Siren Systems Cell Broadcast _{Pager Systems}

Regional Radio Na?onal TV

Integrated mul? channel system

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Phase 1 –

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Phase 2 –

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Predeﬁned Zone Ac?va?on

vs.

Threat Impact Speciﬁc Ac?va?on

-‐ 92 Sirens -‐ 800,000 people

-‐ Irrelevant to most -‐ 7 Sirens _{-‐ 33,000 people}

-‐ Relevant to those threatened

Made possible by Improved accuracy and selec?vity

of EW distribu?on technologies.

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EW resources and

pladorms

1.  Exis?ng resources in ﬁeld 2.  Grid overlay

3.  Grid associa?on of new resources 4.  Threat zone

5.  Ac?vated areas and resources

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Cell broadcast ﬁeld test results

Arava Test

Ramla Test Afula Test

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In the past

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• Man in the loop

• Mul?ple interfaces

• Diﬀerent systems, diﬀerent methods

• Delays, probability of error, slip-‐ups

• Single interface, mul?ple outputs

• Rule governed EW dissemina?on

• Backed-‐up, robust CI systems

• Online, real ?me

• Operator as supervisor, ready to

act if required

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Lessons Learned –

C&C

systems

• One buson = “n” plaoorms

• One interface = ac?va?on and monitoring

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• User Concept –

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EW User -‐ Distributer user

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District \ Regional user

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A new user Proﬁle – “Informa?on Distributor”

• Crea?ng automa?c and semi automa?c ac?va?on modes.

• Rule governed EW dissemina?on.

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Lessons Learned

• Selec?vity = Resilience = Eﬀec?veness

• EW infrastructure is a na?onal asset

• Bringing EW to end-‐user on

their

exis?ng and varied plaoorms

• EW only works if popula?on are trained what to do

• Eﬀec?ve siren radius in urban sevng – 500-‐700 m.

• Widening scope of responsibility to man-‐made & natural disasters

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Future Direc?ons

•  Adopt FEMA Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) principles

–  Modular and open architecture (CAP), mul?layer end-‐to-‐end solu?on, mul? channel dissemina?on. hsps://www.fema.gov/integrated-‐public-‐alert-‐warning-‐system

•  Real ?me alert distribu?on

–  Automa?c ac?va?on upon immediate emergency situa?ons.

•  Uniﬁed and integrated plaoorm

–  Mul?ple threat detectors.

–  Integrate legacy EW systems with new EW technologies.

–  Distribu?ng EW and informa?onal messages.

•  Collabora?ng with external C systems – “Na?onal asset”

–  Emergency Organiza?ons, Municipality, etc.

Israel Home Front Command Overview and R&D programs Early Warning and Informa?on Systems

Israel Home Front Command

Overview and R&D programs

Early Warning and Informa?on Systems

Maj. Alex Blekhman, Ph.D.

Head of Development Sec?on

[email protected]

LTC Ido Orlov

Head of Opera?ons Branch

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Israel Home Front Command -­‐

Overview

•

Israel Home Front Command holds the

responsibility for

civil defense and

support

, popula?on guidance and large-­‐

scale opera?onal response in emergency

scenarios.

•

The Home Front Command belongs to

the Ministry of Defense and operates

under a legal status deﬁned in the

Civil

Defense Law (1951)

. This law speciﬁes

the mission of the

Civil Defense Service

(evolved into Home Front Command in

1992) as: "… to take all measures

required for protec?ng the civilian

popula?on … capitalizing on saving

lives".

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Home Front Command in brief

•

First responders

: Search and Rescue, CBRNe response,

Civil Assistance

•

ResponsibiliAes and RegulaAon

•

PopulaAon guidance

(more details from Maj. Sivan

Inbar later…)

•

Research and development

–

C&C systems, HFC Simula?ve Training Center

–

Na?onal Informa?on System for Response and Resilience

research

–

Interna?onal R&D partnering

•

InformaAon, communicaAon and early warning

Israel Home Front Command -‐

, popula?on guidance and large-‐

Words of the Commander -‐ Col. RamAn SabaA