FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Summary and Recommendations -- 1 Introduction and Context -- 2 The Potential to Enhance Disaster Management: Key IT-Based Capabilities -- 3 Improving Acquisition and Adoption of IT for Disaster Management -- 4 Elements of a Research Agenda -- Appendixes -- A Illustrative Fictional Narratives of IT Use in Disaster Management -- B Review of Interoperability Initiatives -- C Workshop Agenda -- D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits -- E Biographies of Committee Members and Staff.