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This study assessed middle and high school students' knowledge of potential risks, appropriate use, and their behaviours on the internet and social networking sites, especially regarding behaviours that may lead to cyber bullying or contact with potential internet predators. A total of N = 4,215 middle and high school students were assessed in a northeast state using the 47 items and five dimensions of the 'Survey of knowledge of internet risk and behaviour' (SKIRB). The instrument assesses students' knowledge of internet safety with social media, cyberbullying, and internet predator risks. Descriptive statistics and a t-test were generated. Major findings revealed students do not recognise the risk associated with electronic forms of communication with low appropriate responses for the knowledge dimension. An alarming number of students have admitted to being bullied in school, N = 1,200 students, n = 786 middle school students and n = 414 high school students. Finally, parental involvement overall is low; middle school 33%, high school 17%, with regard to monitoring of internet activities.

Future joint force and coalition mission and strike planning activities will be distributed seamlessly over reconfigurable networks. These networks will adapt to specific mission requirements and various mixes of multi-force and coalition partner participants. Decision support applications will be required to operate in a virtual environment with full sharing and collaboration among participants across a wide range of platforms. To accomplish these objectives will require laboratory testing and evaluation of Command and Control (C2) decision support applications in a flexible, collaborative framework that enables rapid insertion of a variety of both legacy and emergent decision support applications.These collaborative environment solutions of the future must not only provide communications and knowledge management, but also must provide seamless access to resources and information, product and process models, as well as advanced decision support tools. With the explosive growth of Internet technology, virtual collaboration is moving towards a web environment. In addition, new software technologies such as the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Platform and Application Programming Model have enabled previously impractical integration and interoperation of computer and human resources.The Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Center for Space Technology, Mission Development Branch and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, are developing a Virtual Collaboration Testbed (VCT) as a distributed computing framework that supports the gathering of human and computer-based assets to collaborate for mission planning and campaign battle management activities.The NRL, VCT will provide a means to judge the effectiveness of C2 decision support applications and to develop a strategy to maximize the return on investments. In this paper we discuss the design and contiguration of VCT to meet the Navy's requirements for decision support, such as campaign-level battle management and joint force mission planning.Hi 1 inpec$,ball .coni (703) 917-9125