Situational Awareness
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Situational Awareness
The following sets out to provide a high-level overview of situational awareness (SA). This page will describe:
- What is "situational awareness"?
- What does it do?
- How many people are in it?
- What is its budget?
- Who leads it?
- Where was it before it was moved to DHS?
- Are there any controversies or interesting things you identified? This could be
used to elicit contributions from other students
What is Situational Awareness
Situational awareness refers to the collection and analysis of environmental elements and events, to understand those critical elements of information to maintain a mission or operations. Situation management is commonly bridged to incident management, in that a key element of understanding those critical elements of information is to identify potential threats that may disrupt that mission or operations.
Situational awareness has broad application across different types of organizations. In government, situational awareness is utilized in military command and control, air traffic control, police, fire & emergency services. In business settings, situational awareness is applied in areas such as telecom network operating centers, and corporate security management. On an individual level, we all leverage situational awareness in common day activities such as driving an automobile, or being aware of our personal security in our setting.
What Does Situational Awareness Do?
their being aware of
being aware of one's surroundings and identifying potential threats and dangerous situations ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to the team with regards to the mission. More simply, it’s knowing what is going on around you.
is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status after some variable has changed, such as time, or some other variable, such as a predetermined event. It is also a field of study concerned with understanding of the environment critical to decision-makers in complex, dynamic areas from aviation, air traffic control, ship navigation, power plant operations, military command and control, and emergency services such as fire fighting and policing; to more ordinary but nevertheless complex tasks such as driving an automobile or riding a bicycle.
refers to a collection of methods that managers use to analyze an organization's internal and external environment to understand the organization's capabilities, customers, and business environment.
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