{"id":201173,"date":"2024-07-30T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=201173"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:51:00","slug":"pdc-support-at-rimpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/30\/pdc-support-at-rimpac\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC<\/abbr> supports humanitarian aid, disaster relief at RIMPAC<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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PDC<\/abbr>\u2019s Robert Kalei Miller briefs the room on DisasterAWARE\u2019s informational and analytical capabilities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pacific Disaster Center<\/a> (PDC<\/abbr>), a University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> applied science and research center based in Maui, provided technical assistance and expertise during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC<\/abbr>) 2024—the world\u2019s largest international maritime exercise. The U.S. government and 29 other nations, international organizations and interagency partners participated, and the theme was “Partners: Integrated and Prepared.”<\/p>\n

Held at Pearl Harbor, July 1–15, RIMPAC<\/abbr> 2024 included a large-scale humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HADR<\/abbr>) exercise involving eight countries, five ships, five landing craft, five aircraft, multiple land forces, and more than 2,500 total participants. The PDC<\/abbr> supported both the academic and execution phases of the HADR<\/abbr> exercise.<\/p>\n

U.S. Agency for International Development\u2019s Shawn Sippin, humanitarian assistance advisor to the military, said the PDC<\/abbr>\u2019s DisasterAWARE<\/a> system played a central role in the newly released task manager application for foreign militaries to use for the 2024 RIMPAC<\/abbr> exercise.<\/p>\n

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“It has been great to see how PDC<\/abbr>‘s contributions to supporting military involvement in HADR<\/abbr> activities have continued to expand and integrate into international systems in use by many foreign militaries looking to exercise their own disaster response readiness,” Sippin said.<\/p>\n

The first week of the exercise included an academics portion to enhance participant understanding of international guidelines and norms of foreign military support to disaster relief operations.<\/p>\n

Robert Kalei Miller, PDC<\/abbr> senior disaster services analyst and liaison to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, highlighted DisasterAWARE as an information sharing platform, and the center\u2019s real-time advanced analytics about potential disaster impacts and humanitarian needs. The academics course laid the foundation for the scenario and execution phase the following week.<\/p>\n

Hurricane scenario<\/h2>\n
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PDC<\/abbr>\u2019s DisasterAware system is used by a coalition of military and humanitarian agencies to assess disaster impacts in real time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The scenario for the exercise was a category two hurricane striking fictitious islands in the Pacific, modeled after the Hawaiian Islands, requiring foreign military aid. PDC<\/abbr> provided estimated impacts and realistic situational awareness products of damage assessments, needs assessments and critical lifeline infrastructure status.<\/p>\n

At the RIMPAC<\/abbr> HADR<\/abbr> Camp, the DisasterAWARE Exercise platform was used to provide real-time scenario information as the common operating picture. The PDC<\/abbr> also played a role in the Disaster Coordination Center, developing daily disaster coordination center briefs and updating data to feed into the DisasterAWARE Exercise platform.<\/p>\n

PDC<\/abbr> received high praise in the after-action follow up for information-sharing and its role in the exercise, and plans to integrate lessons learned into its long-term training and development program.<\/p>\n

—By Chani Goering and Alison Somilleda<\/p>\n

For more on this story, go to the PDC<\/abbr>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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