A Failure of Initiative¶
United States House of Representatives, & Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. (2006). A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.
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- Common-Operating-Picture Breakdown
- Federal officials worked from status reports lagging the ground by many hours; agencies kept their own divergent situation logs; and critical facts — the extent of the levee breaches, the conditions and populations sheltering at the Superdome and Convention Center, where usable assets actually sat — were held differently by different responders
This sourceThe House Katrina committee's finding that degraded communications and a lack of warning left officials without situational awareness of the levee breaches and of conditions at the Superdome and Convention Center.
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“this instance, blinding lack of situational awareness and disjointed decision making needlessly compounded and prolonged Katrina's horror.”
- Federal officials worked from status reports lagging the ground by many hours; agencies kept their own divergent situation logs; and critical facts — the extent of the levee breaches, the conditions and populations sheltering at the Superdome and Convention Center, where usable assets actually sat — were held differently by different responders
- Mutual-aid mismatch
- Aid that was present and willing could not be coordinated where it was needed, and the interoperability breakdown became a central finding of the after-action investigations
This sourceCommunications interoperability failure among converging federal, state, local and National Guard responders as a central after-action finding on Hurricane Katrina.
- Aid that was present and willing could not be coordinated where it was needed, and the interoperability breakdown became a central finding of the after-action investigations
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