Situational awareness systems and methods

A method for organizing and managing an incident response comprising:

• providing a server computer running situational awareness software;
• providing a plurality of users, each user in said plurality having an associated endpoint device having application software for communicating with said situational awareness software;
• detecting the occurrence of a precipitating event;
• at said server computer, receiving precipitating event data about said detected precipitating event;
• at said server computer, beginning a session for said detected precipitating event, said session including said received precipitating event data;
• said plurality of users conducting an operational response to said precipitating event;
• during said conducting:
• generating a plurality of additional data sets about said precipitating event and said operational response;
• and
• said computer server communicating in real-time about said operational response with least some endpoint devices of said plurality of users;
• and
• after said operational response is completed, at said computer server:
• terminating said session for said detected precipitating event;
• and
• storing an archive comprising said precipitating event data, said communications, a timestamp for each of said communications, said plurality of additional data sets, and a timestamp associated with a time when each of said additional data sets was generated.