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PACOM Strengthens Relationships with Allies and Partners Using APAN PACOM Strengthens Relationships with Allies and Partners Using APAN Exercises Workgroups Conferences HADR Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN Building partnerships using APAN 2015-16 PACOM 20 10 Locations of Exercises and Conferences 0 Conferences Exercises Senior Leader Engagement Events Exercises Number of Number of Participating Participating Conferences Host Nation Nations Exercises Host Nation Nations Asia Pacific Intelligence Brunei 27 Balikatan Philippines 8 Chiefs Conference Bersama Warrior Malaysia 2 (APICC) Carat Brunei Brunei 2 Asia Pacific Military Vietnam 30+ Carat Indonesia Indonesia 2 Health Exchange (APMHE) Cobra Gold Thailand 8 Cope North Guam 8 ASEAN Regional Forum Malaysia 26 Daring Fox Japan 3 Chiefs of Defense United States 24+ Dugong Australia 7 (CHOD) Garuda Shield Indonesia 2 Military Operations and Canada 26+ Gema Bhakti Indonesia 2 Law Conference (MILOPS) Kakadu Australia 15 Keen Edge / Keen Sword Japan 2 Pacific Area Senior Brunei 28 Officers Logistics Keris Strike Malaysia 2 Seminar (PASOLS) Mahi Tangaroa (ASEAN) Brunei 22 Pacific Armies Manage- Indonesia 34 Pacific Dragon South Korea 3 ment Seminar (PAMS) Pacific Endeavor Philippines 20 Western Pacific Naval Indonesia 14 Pacific Partnership United States 5 Symposium (WPNS) RIMPAC United States 22 Southern Katipo New Zealand 9 Talisman Saber Australia 4 Tempest Express Nepal 18 Trident Warrior United States 8 USMC Lrg-scale Exercise United States 3 Vigilant Guard (DSCA) United States 2 Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN PACOM Building partnerships using APAN 2015-16 20 10 Locations of HADR 0 Workgroups HADR Communities Enabling Multi-lateral HADR Shared Situational Approaches and Security Cooperation Awareness Groups Communities 2015-2016 HADR Affected Areas (ISC) 2 Hawaii Chapter Cyclone Pam Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, ARF/ASEAN Bio-Preparedness Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Tuvalu Asia Pacific Defense Forum Magazine Nepal Gorkha Earthquake Nepal Asia-Pacific Aviation Safety Typhoon Koppu/Lando Philippines, Northern Mariana CFE-DMHA: Health Emergencies in Large Populations Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan CFE-DMHA: Vietnam HADR Synchronization Working Group Cyclone Winston Fiji, Vanuatu, Queensland, Tonga CNRH Emergency Management Hawaii National Guard Joint Operations Center (JOC) Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATF-W) Past HADR Operations Joint Master Scenario Event List Operation Unified Assistance Operation Damayan MH370 Search 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Operation Unified Response Operation United Assistance NIU-PACOM International Fellows Program 2015 2010 Haiti Earthquake 2014 Ebola Response Office of Defence Cooperation - Kuala Lumpur Operation Tomodachi Operation Sahayogi Haat Okinawa Public Health Partners 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and 2015 Nepal Earthquake Pacific and Indian Oceans Shipping Workgroup (PACIOSWG) Tsunami Pacific Theater Education Council Pacific Transnational Crime Network (PTCN) PACOM Pandemic, Infections, Disease and Bio PACOM NGA - Imagery and Maps Pivot to the Pacific: Framing Synthetic Environments for Non- Kinetic Scenarios Public USPACOM HADR Community QUADS: (USA, AUS, FRA, and NZL) Group Addressing Issues of Illegal Unregulated and Unreported Fishing, HADR, Search and Rescue, and UXO Removal USPACOM Energy Partnership and Strategy Council Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN Usage of APAN capabilities 2015-16 PACOM 21 SharePoint Sites 457 Community Groups 20 21 345 Discussions Calendars Blogs 136 SP Lists 913 Content Pages 425 Forums 673 Document Libraries 484 291 Custom Lists Wikis 1160 142 Media Galleries Task Lists 313 Real-Time Collaboration Rooms 21806Community Posts 203 200 20000 16638 150 15000 110 100 10000 50 5000 1738 1452 291 0 0 Connect Rooms Chat Rooms Blog Posts Forum Posts Media Gallery Wiki Posts Posts 25735 Active Community Members Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN Growth of CCMD usage of APAN 2015-16 30 Significant increase in 2015 of CCMD’s use of APAN for multinational exercises with coalition partners and state agencies AFRICOM 20 CENTCOM EUCOM NORTHCOM PACOM 10 SOUTHCOM SOCOM 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Projected Growth of APAN Membership 2016 144896 Projected growth of APAN 140000 Membership based on first quarter 2016 120000 113220 100000 87184 Avg 80000 46% 60000 62184 increase of registered members per year 43940 40000 27286 20000 12158 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN Strengthening relationships using APAN PACOM Optimizing coherence among diverse organizations USPACOM further strengthens relationships with allies and partners when using APAN to provide tools used in real-world crisis events and training exercises. During RIMPAC, exercise controllers use APAN to provide collaborative simulation environments by organizing operations and scenario events through blogs, wikis, forums and RSS feeds. During RIMPAC 2012 and 2014 multi-national participant’s used APAN to produce over 2,000 incident reports that were added to maps which provided immediate situational awareness within simulated training events. Strengthening readiness in the Asia-Pacific region The Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP) brings together partner nation militaries and HADR experts from around the world to develop, test, and improve communication systems across the Pacific. MCIP uses APAN to promote humanitarian communication for its planning workshops to modernize and strengthen partnerships. Part of the Pacific Endeavor 2014 exercise included Nepalese amateur radio operators who reported earthquake aftershocks to USPACOM using APAN forum posts. This practice proved successful as partners around the world knew how to communicate during the 2015 Nepal Earthquake using the bulletin board established on APAN. Through these exercises, USPACOM provides a centralized location to share information, increase situational awareness while decreasing response time. Planning with multinational partners The Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT), a cooperative program with 30 partner nations, is essential to the Asia-Pacific nations who work together through collaborative planning to facilitate the rapid and effective establishment and/or augmentation of a multinational task force headquarters. To coordinate events and workshops, such as their TEMPEST EXPRESS series, APAN is used for registration, coordination and planning in an effort to promote multinational crisis response and capabilities by MPAT nations. MPAT uses APAN wiki’s to develop a common set of procedures that assist to improve interoperability of coalition combined forces and to host Multinational Force Standing Operating Procedures. Providing collaborative environments for HADR During Typhoon Haiyan Response, USPACOM coordinated relief activities in accordance with its Theater Campaign Plan to collect and disseminate information that needed to be shared with the Philippine government, foreign militaries and NGOs participating in the response effort. USPACOM was able to remove information silos for first-respond- ers who did not have access to information. USPACOM increased situational aware- ness by using APAN as a centralized location to share information allowing responders immediate updates on events, reducing the duplication of efforts. Partnership Readiness Presence empowered by APAN.
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