GITA 2006 Interoperability Demonstration
Introduction
NOTE: This is a Ficticious Scenario
The International Olympic Committee has just announced that do to many violations in Olympic Committee reporting, the IOC has decided to pull the hosting of the 2012 Olympics from the city of London. Although this is a severe blow to London and the United Kingdom, it might become a tremendous windfall for whomever is chosen to replace London as the site to host the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012. Multiple billions are dollars in revenue and goodwill will follow the site of this Olympics. The catch: a full proposal, including an environmental impact study, a sports venue study, a transportation study and a security assessment are due to the IOC evaluation committee within one month.
The main players:
- The City of Tampa
- Hillsborough County
- The State of Florida
- Tampa DOT
- Emergency Operations Center
- TECO - Tampa Electric
- Peoples Gas
- Florida DOT
- US DOT, US EPA (specifically Region 4), US Homeland Security, US Coast Guard, NOAA, US Army Corps of Engineers
Focus areas for both the Environmental Impact and Security Treat Assessment:
- Tampa’s Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is a 3 billion gallon water storage system
- Petroleum and natural gas storage and delivery systems
As there is not enough time for one group to complete such a daunting task, the Mayor and Governor have asked that all responsible parties take politics out of the mix and share information freely to allow for this mammoth task to be accomplished in a distributed manner. This will be accomplished through a comprehensive Multi-Party Agreement (MPA), which sets forth a sharing of assets and responsibilities between:
The United States Government (Homeland Security, etc.), the State of Florida, Hillsborough County, the City of Tampa, local utilities and municipal support organizations, the United States Olympic Committee, and the Tampa 2012 Olympic Committee.
In establishing the MPA these organizations saw forth to establish guidelines for the sharing of geospatial services outside of just the Olympic reporting, but for use in natural or man-made disasters, civic and police planning or event execution.