level of uncertainty in decision making, no increase in trust was observed. Methods of gaining situational awareness Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing, made possible by the rise of social media and ubiquitous mobile access has a potential for considerably enhancing situation awareness of both responsible authorities and citizens themselves for emergency and crisis situations by employing or using "citizens as sensors". For instance, analysis of content posted on online social media like Facebook and Twitter using data mining, machine learning and natural language processing techniques may provide situational information. A crowdsourcing approach to sensing, particularly in crisis situations, has been referred to as crowdsensing. Crowdmapping is a subtype of crowdsourcing by which aggregation of crowd-generated inputs such as captured communications and social media feeds are combined with geographic data to create a digital map that is as up-to-date as possible that can improve situational awareness during an incident and be used to support incident response. Cloud-based geographic information system display of structured data Since 2012 the National Information Sharing Consortium (NISC) has worked to provide "the right information to the right people at the right time" by use of common terminology among the emergency management community and first-responders with a mission of standardizing the structured geo-spatial data to be shared online over a variety of platforms. The result is to create a Common Operating Picture (COP) that generates accurate and timely information displayed visually, both at the strategic level for decision makers and at the tactical level for people on site. The NISC promotes the sharing of code, data widgets, and training in order to increase the quality of the situational awareness. Large scale exercises like the Capstone-14 week-long event coordinated by the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) and actual operational use of these data sharing methods have also advanced the work of NISC to expand the usability of GIS-based information sharing for enhanced situational awareness. Military training methods There are two training scenarios designed to increase the situational awareness skills of military professionals, and first responders in police and emergency services. The first, Kim's Game, has a more common place in the Marine Corps sniper school and police academies. The name is derived from the novel Kim which references the game to a spy school lesson. The game involves a tray with various items such as spoons, pencils, bullets, and any other items the soldiers would be familiar with. The participants