What are the DSS/IS/IT issues?
The Incident Command System is bureaucratic, detailed and specific. To support response and management of an “incident”, some transaction processing is necessary and much of this is done today on paper forms, as an emergency grows in scale accounting issues emerge that require an accounting information system, and as more responders participate and the scale of an incident increases there is an increasing need for decision support. Maps are common decision support representations in emergencies, but Incident Commanders and their staffs make use of other tools, data and models.Information technology must scale up and down as appropriate to an incident, DSS/IS/IT can serve particular responders on the scene of an incident, for example supporting triage by a medical professional, and DSS/IS/IT can be used in a permanent Command or Operations Center for multiple tasks.And some more specific issues:Is commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) or specialized, customized software more appropri
