Direction and control communications to support crisis relocation planning.

Final report

This report (a product of Task 5) presents the results of our study of direction and control communications. First, in chapter II, we discuss the methodology followed by the study team in developing prototype communications plans for Colorado. Next, in chapter III, we present the general requirements for direction and control communications and then formulate, in prototype fashion, specific requirements for the Colorado Springs risk area and associated host areas, as well as for the state organization. These requirements are presented in the form of matrices that depict the required communication links between the participating agencies. Chapter IV presents a communications concept for Colorado based on our general requirements for direction and control and on the real-life environment that we found in the test-bed areas. Chapter V explores a broad range of implementation considerations, which should be considered by decision makers and planners in the course of developing communications capabilities to support CRP. These considerations include technical, political, and economic factors .550.