Authors:John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, David R. Frelinge
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: publicly, available, geospatial, information, implications, security, risks, assessing, homeland, mapping
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035479
ISBN-13: 9780833035479

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, many agencies within the federal government began restricting some of their publicly available geospatial data and information from such sources as the World Wide Web. As time passes, however, decisionmakers have begun to ask whether and how such information specifically helps potential attackers, including terrorists, to select U.S. homeland sites and prepare for better attacks. Under the direction of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, researchers at the RAND Corporation sought to clarify how geospatial information can be exploited by att

Authors:Beth E. Lachman, Peter Schirmer, David R. Freling
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sharing, geospatial, data, assets, barriers, benefits, mapping, enables, missions, installation
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040340
ISBN-13: 9780833040343

This report assesses the effects of using and sharing installations and environment geospatial data assets within and across the business, warfighting, and intelligence mission areas of the Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid. The authors found that the assets have diverse beneficial effects and support a wide range of missions, including installation and environmental management, training, homeland security, military health, and warfighting operations and planning. Common benefits include time savings, cost savings, cost avoidance, improved situational awareness, more effectiv