<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Velizar Shalamanov</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stoyan Avramov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruggedized Commercial IT Modules for Field C2 Posts in Coalition Operations and Emergencies</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advanced Technology Demonstrations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">C4ISR Architecture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Combined Operations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">COTS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emergency Management Scenarios</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multi-Agency Operations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multilateral Interoperability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Network-Centric Warfare</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">93-103</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The article describes a set of communications and IT modules that has been successfully tested in a number of emergency management exercises. The modules integrate advanced, commercially available technologies, and may serve as a pool of building blocks in the creation of advanced C4 systems for a variety of multinational, multi-agency operations, e.g. peacekeeping, stabilization operations, post-conflict reconstruction, disaster relief, humanitarian operations, etc. The authors argue that when this concept is combined with a smart approach towards development and management of a common architecture of the operation, it leads to cost-effective solutions to a number of interoperability, security and information sharing issues in coalition and emergency operations.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>