Using Amateur Radio's Traffic System to Relay ICS 213 Messages

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Viable modern radio communication service requires the ability to capture, route, and deliver structured information from one arbitrary place to another. As emergency management has matured in the United States, standards for information management have emerged in the form of Incident Command System (ICS) formats, such as the General Message, known as ICS-213. Transmission of the ICS-213 by radio is essential but remains a challenge. Just as local telephone circuits tie into the public switched telephone network and computer networks tie into the global public Internet, radio nets can tie together with common standards for message structure and interchange. We will show how ICS-213 forms can be effectively relayed from station to station, whether across town, across the country, or anywhere in the middle using longstanding message handling standards for amateur radio.

Presenter:
C. Matthew Curtin KD8TTE
The creator of the BLACK SWAN exercise series and Warrant Officer in the Signal Section, Headquarters, Ohio Military Reserve. He is AUXCOMM qualified, trustee of the Radio Relay International amateur station license, and has past appointments as ARRL Ohio Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator, Franklin County Emergency Coordinator, and Net Manager of Central Ohio Traffic Net. As a computer scientist at Interhack Corporation, he leads the firm's forensic computing and cybersecurity practices. BLACK SWAN exercise and training can be found at www.blackswancomex.org.
[From W1LEM: This is the process being adopted by C&I ARES. I arranged for this presentation.]