All working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the institutional relationships and getting beyond the scenario. Its not just about the heavy equipment operators, its about city of San Francisco staff and departments understanding how the military works and giving the military a chance to work with the civilian authority in a noncrisis environment so that when they have to do it anywhere in the world, theyve got one
Network. And with that brings the promise of new challenges for sure in interoperatability and new capabilities that we have never had before. In fact, no other country is as far along as we are, even though were just starting. What we see is the opportunity there to interoperate in many different ways than just voice as we have in the past. The challenge for us in the future will be the challenge of connectivity where we can connect wide band or narrow band voice or data or video across different systems. Again, all of this is based on using internet protocol. One of the things that we at our company does is provide a relay in an unmanned vehicle to fly in the vicinity of a ship like this and provide over the horizon communications. Very high level communications. But importantly, it also integratings and interoperates narrow band, broad band, voice, data and video. And so the challenges of the new systems that are coming out and will be coming out over the next few years are great, b
That are working together with us. Thank you very much for being here, happy fleet week. When people ask me about our mayor, i tell them, he gets it. You can see that from his remarks just now. He knows what this is about. And a lot of other people get it, too, and i want to tell you after fleet week the Senior Leaders seminar last year, the word got around. And in november there was a massive earthquake in have an, turkey, and the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco fleet Week Association were asked to send a team to do an assessment of their earthquake and their preparations or lack of preparation. So the word is getting out. Seattle invited us to come up and talk to them about incorporating that, this program, into their fleet week. So the word is getting out. Id like to tell you just a story that ive told before to some of you but it relates very much to the next panel that we have here. Back in april of 1992, i was commanding the First Marine Division and we had been to th
Width and video feed that im not qualified to talk about, im strictly a push to talk guy. We know as a city when the earth moves, things fall, we get a lot of rubble. Thats going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. We have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre g
With that, im going to bring up dejon and take over the panel and ill talk to you shortly. Thank you, rob. The panelists we have represent a broad group of participants, some of them participated themselves and some of them had individuals in their organizations participate. And i want them to start with an introduction of who they are, a little bit about their own background, so you understand the lens they were looking through when they were providing some of their answers today. Starting with our 3 panelists that were part of our command and control exercise then well hear from our 3 panelists that were in our communications drill. Lieutenant commander mike kress, Operations Officer at Naval Beach Group 1, i was a coach during the exercise. We supported the exercise with 3 subject Matter Experts from amphibious construction battalion 1, their expertise is in route clearance, they actually played in the exercise and i was the coach for the exercise. Good morning, im colonel alley, ma