Pacific Disaster Center

Abstract

The Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has been in operation since February 1996. The PDC is a public/private partnership managed by the University of Hawaii (UH) under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense. It is functionally within the organization of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) (OUSD(AT&L)) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The PDC is a world-recognized authority and leader in science and information technology applications relating to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR). PDC develops new and innovative technologies to operate an (unclassified) integrated multi-hazard hazard monitoring, early warning and decision support system, called RAPIDS, for the department.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0708012S_7_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
FY2018 and FY2019, the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Technology Transfer Research tax amounted to $0.065 million.
Service Agency Name
Defense Logistics Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Logistics Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Big Data
  • Costs
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • High Resolution
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Situational Awareness
  • Small Business
  • Task Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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