Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research: Artificial Intelligence Landscape Assessment

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) partnered with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to  identify current emergency management research, elicit capability needs from practitioners, and identify where technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), may benefit the future of emergency management and emergency operations centers.

The PNNL team performed a landscape assessment of AI technologies. The assessment began with an extensive literature review and tagging exercise to capture ideas, then curated and validated those ideas through discussions with emergency managers, university faculty, college students, national laboratory researchers, and federal staff. This report summarizes the methodology, analysis, and insights of the AI landscape assessment, highlighting an in-depth review of AI technologies and their potential applications to emergency management.