Dr. Imes Chiu, chief of applied research for the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, was joined by Armed Forces of the Philippines Col. Restituto Padilla, Republic of the Philippines liaison officer to U.S. Pacific Command, Luke Beckman, situational awareness manager for the American Red Cross, Charles Devaney, a graduate student specializing in geospatial technologies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Dr. Thomas Chandler, associate research scientist at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, to discuss civil-military coordination at the Student Workshop on Civil-Military Operations at West Point’s Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations, April 28. The group demonstrated how the use of expendable unmanned aerial vehicles provided desperately needed situational awareness after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in November 2013.