U.S. Army Casualty Assistance System

Author

Gutierrez, Thomas A. ; Stramara, Kevin P. ; Tanner, Christopher H. ; Wells, Caleb K. ; Sperling, Lieutenant Colonel Brian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng., US Mil. Acad., West Point, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

28-28 April 2006

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

185

Abstract

This paper researches improvements in the current Casualty Assistance Office and how it conducts its business. The purpose of the Casualty Assistance Office is to support the casualty assistance system (CAS). This system´s purpose is to help the families of the army´s casualties get through one of the toughest times in their lives. The casualty assistance officer (CAO) is the person assigned to each casualty to assist the survivors get through this troubled time. Since the commencement of the global war on terrorism, there has been a dramatic increase in casualties and there are indications of failure within the system. This research analyzes the CAS to identify possible (high payoff) improvements to the system

Keywords

military computing; terrorism; Casualty Assistance Office; US army casualty assistance system; casualty assistance officer; terrorism; Aerospace engineering; Content addressable storage; Design engineering; Helium; Meeting planning; Research and development management; Security; Statistical analysis; Systems engineering and theory; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Charlottesville, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0474-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0474-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIEDS.2006.278672

Filename

4055134