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Special information needs.
A crisis can cause unusual demands both for information flows to and from the crisis area and for consolidation or fusion of information to meet responder needs. The CSTB report identifies and elaborates on research needs motivated by crisis management. Crisis management testbeds. Such testbeds provide a venue for government, academic, and industrial researchers to work with application users, such as federal, state, and local crisis managers, to test and validate technologies by subjecting them to realistic applications. This was the principal finding relating to the process of collaboration between the two communities.