After several years of developing APAN , in January 2010 , the Defense Information Systems Agency ( DISA ) setup an APAN Community to assist more than 500 organizations looking to coordinate efforts for the 2010 Haiti earthquake within USSOUTHCOM . APAN was utilized to support Operation Unified Response to coordinate NGOs , foreign governments . private individuals and humanitarian assistance . Users utilized APAN to share situation reports , imagery and other crucial statistics with the humanitarian aid community . Over 1,400 users , including the Red Cross and smaller relief organizations communicated with one another using APAN . to relieve the suffering in Haiti . In an interview conducted with the CTO of DISA by Defense Systems , Dave Mihelcic , states " One of the things we learned ... is that you ca n't always understand who your partners are . One night I was on APAN , watching Haiti relief being coordinated by a U.S. Southern Command operator , and someone popped in and said , ' I 'm the owner of a construction business in Biloxi Miss. and I have four qualified bulldozer operators , and if you can arrange transportation to Haiti , they can participate in the relief . ' And they were able to coordinate that . " In 2011 , the US DOD announced a new Unclassified Information Sharing Service ( UISS ) as an enterprise service centrally funded for all Combatant Commands ( COCOMs ) to use with mission partners in their respective AORs
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
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