Department of Homeland Security Incident Management Simulation Workshop
	May 12-13, 2004 The Westin Grand Hotel Washington, DC

The purpose of this workshop was to gain understanding of key elements of incident command by bringing together professionals from all levels of the incident management community.  The “ground truth” information gathered at this workshop will be critical in the development of next generation simulation software for incident management.  This software could provide a virtual representation of a community or region, including detailed infrastructure descriptions, demographic information, location and capabilities of emergency responders/resources, and allow incident command decision makers to test the impact of decisions during a hypothetical crisis.  Ultimately, this could develop into a fully interactive national resource to facilitate effective catastrophic event response planning. Some related links of note: National Incident Management System (NIMS) NIMS website NIMS document (PDF) (also available here) Incident Command System (ICS) Web pages ICS home page ICS National Training Curriculum Update: The Final Report for this Workshop (PDF format, 415 kBytes) is now available. Click here to download the report.   This site is maintained by the Krell Institute. Questions/Comments: webmaster@krellinst.org