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Strong Angel Project

Humanitarian Assistance Through
Civilian/Military Collaboration

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The Center for Really Neat Research and the Strong Angel Exercise

The Center for Really Neat Research (CRNR), in Syracuse, New York, has been invited to contribute to a project that will test and help enhance the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance efforts.

The project, called Strong Angel, will take place in June of 2000 as part of the RIMPAC 2000 Military Exercise, an international event, being coordinated by the US Navy's 3rd Fleet. The main site for Strong Angel will be in the northwest region of the Big Island of Hawaii, in particular a barren lava field at Puu Paa that will house a mock refugee camp.

The World Health Organization, the International Red Cross, the United Nations, and many other international organizations are participating in Strong Angel. The exercise will encourage collaborative efforts between military forces and private-sector entities, with a goal of improving methods and matrices during disaster relief efforts.

What is the Strong Angel Project?

Strong Angel is an international exercise on the provision of humanitarian assistance through collaborative efforts between civil and military organizations.

The exercise is being conducted by RIMPAC, with US efforts being coordinated by LCDR Eric Rasmussen, Fleet Surgeon of the US Navy's 3rd Fleet.

RIMPAC is a collaborative effort of the following six Pacific Rim countries, as well as Great Britain: Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Korea, and the United States, to promote joint and combined task forces between their military and civil agencies. This large scale exercise, which simulates a realistic event requiring rapid cooperative response, occurs every two years to test and measure the effectiveness of methods and matrices.



The Center for Really Neat Research

The Center for Really Neat Research is operated by the not-for-Profit Institute for Interventional Informatics (I3), and is home to the Pulsar Project.

The CRNR Mission

To improve quality of life by intelligent use of information and communication technologies in the fields of healthcare, communication, education, and recreation.

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