http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/04/25/las-vegas-uasi-decision-garbage-in-garbage-out/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:33:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/04/25/las-vegas-uasi-decision-garbage-in-garbage-out/comment-page-1/#comment-2551 Homeland Security Watch » Blog Archive » UASI grant decisions: garbage in, garbage out? Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:24:30 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=637#comment-2551 [...] I think this decision on NYC could be another example of the garbage-in, garbage-out (GIGO) problem, which I argued in April was a factor in the decision to cut Las Vegas from the list of high-risk cities. Some of the metrics on the one-page fact memo seem flawed in one way or another; for example, using the “quantity” of various asset types in these calculations fails to quantify their symbolic values, and using the quantity of threat reports from cities fails to account for different levels of discernment across cities about what constitutes suspicious activity. [...] [...] I think this decision on NYC could be another example of the garbage-in, garbage-out (GIGO) problem, which I argued in April was a factor in the decision to cut Las Vegas from the list of high-risk cities. Some of the metrics on the one-page fact memo seem flawed in one way or another; for example, using the “quantity” of various asset types in these calculations fails to quantify their symbolic values, and using the quantity of threat reports from cities fails to account for different levels of discernment across cities about what constitutes suspicious activity. [...]

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/04/25/las-vegas-uasi-decision-garbage-in-garbage-out/comment-page-1/#comment-755 William R. Cumming Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:37:22 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=637#comment-755 It really is not so amazing. After DHS/FEMA leadership did not know for days that the New Orleans Convention Center and the Super Bowl were two different facilities with resulting catastrophe for non-evacuees in the city. All of this critical information is available from cheap easy to use GIS maps and data sources but somehow that escaped DHS/FEMA's contracting capability and also the State and local governments that should have these systems ready to go. and available to "Outsiders" when they arrive to help. It really is not so amazing. After DHS/FEMA leadership did not know for days that the New Orleans Convention Center and the Super Bowl were two different facilities with resulting catastrophe for non-evacuees in the city. All of this critical information is available from cheap easy to use GIS maps and data sources but somehow that escaped DHS/FEMA’s contracting capability and also the State and local governments that should have these systems ready to go. and available to “Outsiders” when they arrive to help.

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