White House Situation Room
The White House Situation Room ( German " situation room of the White House " ), usually only Situation Room or short SITROOM called, is a Situation Room in the White House and the main center for encrypted communications of the President of the United States . It is comparable to the British Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBR / COBRA), although the COBR is nowhere near as well known as the Situation Room. It should not be confused with the Presidential Emergency Operations Center , which is also located in the White House, but has a different function.
Contrary to what the name suggests, the Situation Room consists not only of a single room, but of several rooms on a total of 513 m². It is believed that due to its size, it consists of three to eight rooms.
The room was furnished by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs invasion failed , after the lack of real-time information transmission was blamed for the failure.
occupation
The room is manned around the clock by five alternating so-called watch teams who monitor national and international events. Each of these teams generally consists of three officers, a communications assistant and an intelligence analyst. Depending on the shift, requirements, workload or events, the staff can vary, the aforementioned staff is only a guide . The hand-picked members of these watch teams are selected from a pool of around 30 people from the intelligence community and the armed forces after thorough and thorough examination.
Trivia
The news channel CNN has named its format The Situation Room after the White House Situation Room .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/situation-room.htm "5000 square foot" corresponds to approx. 500 m²