National Preparedness & Response Programs
Peter Miller
Acting Director, Mission Support Office, HSARPA
[email protected]
202-254-6144
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November 1st, 2005
S&T National Preparedness & Response Programs
Unified Incident Command and Decision
Support (UICDS)
Innovative New Materials for Personal Protective
Equipment
Regional Technology Integration Initiative
IMACC - Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric
Assessment Center.
NIMS-based Training and Exercise
SBIR – Advanced Cooling Garments,
Methods to Determine Structural Stability
RTAP (Rapid Technology Application Program)
(3 topics)
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UICDS Definition
UICDS will provide the ability to manage personnel, direct
equipment, and seamlessly communicate, gather, store,
redistribute, and secure any mission critical information
needed by incident commanders and emergency responders
during an emergency situation.
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UICDS Background
ƒ The emergency responder community has a
need to acquire, synthesize, communicate and
share critical information.
ƒ These abilities are key elements in an effective
response to any emergency situation.
ƒ This need is even more critical for large-scale,
complex events such as terrorist threats or major
natural hazards where a more coordinated
response to emergency situations is key to
saving lives and restoring infrastructure
ƒ It is crucial to establish a unified command
structure that ensures all information flowing into
and out of the focal point of incident command is
managed properly to ensure optimal use in
supporting command and control and decision
support.
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UICDS Goals
ƒ Dramatically enhance the information management and information sharing
capabilities of incident commanders and emergency responders as
emergencies increasingly demand more highly coordinated responses.
ƒ Support the implementation of the NIMS.
ƒ Utilize an open architecture capable of supporting multi-media components.
ƒ Improve the response quality, and overall interaction among federal, state,
and local incident commanders and emergency responders.
ƒ Interoperable & compatible with COTS-based information management
systems and existing legacy systems.
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UICDS Sources of Requirements
ƒ National Incident Management System (NIMS)
ƒ Incident/emergency management
processes
ƒ SAFECOM
ƒ Interoperable communications architecture
ƒ Project Responder
ƒ User needs/requirements
ƒ National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
ƒ Data/information standards
ƒ National Preparedness Goal
ƒ Universal Task List (UTL)
ƒ Target Capabilities List (TCL)
Office of Domestic
Preparedness
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UICDS Capabilities
UICDS systems will combine capabilities in four major area
Information
Sharing &
Interoperability
Information
Integrity/Assurance
UICDS
Multi-media/-modal
Communications
Comprehensive
Information
Management
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UICDS Strategy
ƒ No single system solution will work for everyone
ƒ Stakeholders and user community must be engaged in the
development process
ƒ Develop a common UICDS reference architecture compliant
with the NIMS
ƒ Develop and test (prototype/pilot) systems based on the
architecture
ƒ Publish the architecture
ƒ Support purchase of UICDS-compliant systems via grant
guidance
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UICDS Program Outline
ƒ Phase I – Architecture Studies
ƒ Phase II – Prototypes & Pilots
ƒ Phase III – System Components
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UICDS Status
ƒ Phase I – Architecture Studies – closed
ƒ Four teams awarded – SAIC, Northrop Grumman, Quantum
Leap Innovations, Alion Science and Technology
ƒ Initially focused on developing a common set of Operational
Views (DoDAF)
ƒ Common Operational Views will be extensively reviewed and
published
ƒ Phase II – Prototypes & Pilots – upcoming
ƒ BAA in FY’06
ƒ Develop system prototypes & pilots utilizing the published
Operational Views
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Personal Protective Equipment Technology
Innovative New Materials for Personal Protection
Equipment (BAA 05-01) – closed
• Four efforts underway – Gentex, K&M
Environmental, Auburn University, Thomas
Jefferson Laboratories
• Focus is on revolutionary CBR protection
Improved and Innovative Cooling Garments for
Emergency Responders
• Two Phase II SBIR efforts (Nanopore, Aspen
Systems)
Possible electro-textiles and revolutionary SCBA
solicitations.
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Regional Technology Integration Initiative
• Goal : Infuse and integrate new HS technologies into four
representative urban areas (Anaheim, Cincinnati, Memphis, Seattle)
to evaluate operational effectiveness and life cycle costs.
• Technology assessments have been completed.
• Timeframe: FY’06 & FY’07
• Solicitations will most likely be RFPs.
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Interagency Modeling & Atmospheric
Assessment Center (IMAAC)
ƒ Integrates the best and brightest
scientific capability with the vast
emergency response capacity of the
federal government
ƒ Distributes atmospheric hazard
predictions to federal, state, and local
response agencies to assure a
common operating picture
ƒ Provides expert interpretation of
results
ƒ Supports national exercise program
ƒ Eliminates confusing and conflicting
hazard predictions
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Structural Stability SBIR
Methods to Determine Structural
Stability
ƒ Awards to be made
Q1-FY’06
ƒ www.HSARPASBIR.com
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NIMS-Based Training & Exercise
ƒ Strategy includes systems architecture concept development
and rapid deployment of existing technologies
ƒ Simulation-based
ƒ Fully interoperable with UICDS architecture
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RTAP (Rapid Technology Application
Program) Topics
ƒ Resource Awareness Data Portal
ƒ Geospatial Modeling of Homeland Security Capabilities
ƒ Advanced 3-D Locator System
BAA published on or around 1 November 2006.
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