Mass Conflagration: An Analysis and Adaptation of the Shipboard Damage Control Organization

Abstract

The author presents an analysis of a typical shipboard Damage Control (DC) organization, with emphasis placed on the general failure of the organization to cope with the variety generated by a mass conflagration. Two environmental scenarios, the Main Space Fire and the Mass Conflagration, are compared using an Environmental Analysis Framework. The organization is then discussed in terms of its applicable command and control characteristics, and how each of these contributes to the overall ability to cope with these two scenarios. After all analyses have been performed, the author then presents recommended adaptations to the organizational technology and command and control characteristics of the DC organization, with the goal of expanding variety handling capacity to meet the more complex environment posed by a mass conflagration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA243565

Entities

People

  • James M. Leist

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Onboard
  • Personnel Management
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Shipboard
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers