Bulding 557 is the main SA-III event site
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The other main facility is at San Diego State University VizLab
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Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP

Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy
Director Strong Angel III

Dr. Eric Rasmussen spent seven years enlisted in nuclear submarines before leaving the Navy to receive his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. He worked in Haiti with the State Department and on the graduate research staff as a molecular biologist for Los Alamos National Laboratory before completing a Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas in Dallas. He returned to the Navy as Chief Resident in Medicine at the Naval Medical Center in Oakland, California and continued there as assistant program director for the Internal Medicine teaching program. Since then he has held several positions, including Director of Surface Fleet Medical Programs at the Navy’s Medical Institute in Florida, and as Fleet Surgeon for the US Navy’s Third Fleet.

Q. What is Strong Angel III

A. Strong Angel III is a week-long series of demonstrations and experiments conducted by volunteers from the private and public sectors to trial and exhibit how integrated technologies and techniques can improve information flow and cooperation across civil and military boundaries in delivering humanitarian relief efforts to victims of disasters and conflicts.

Q. Where is Strong Angel III taking place?

A. Strong Angel III’s core operations center is the San Diego Fire Department Fire Rescue Training Facility site, located at the former Naval Training Center near downtown San Diego. The site will host the demonstration participants throughout its buildings, grounds and parking lots during the event. SDSU’s Visualization Center, the secondary site of operations, will be the central point for information processing, mapping and incoming visual footage and data from remote cameras at the Fire Rescue Training Facility and from satellite sites throughout San Diego County.

Overview

Strong Angel III is a low-key demonstration of globally relevant methods for improving resilience within any community under pressure. As an ad hoc demonstration Strong Angel III has no dedicated staff, no official funding source, and no policy or tasking legitimacy, and that has generally been true of each of the previous Strong Angel demonstrations as well. Historically, however, the Strong Angel series has a modestly successful record of effective civ-mil interaction and interesting solution sets to vexing problems. We can also note that each prior demonstration has altered some aspect of corporate or governmental behavior over the long-term.