Science & Technology Directorate

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1 Science & Technology Directorate Unified Incident Command Decision Support (UICDS) Overview Michael B. Smith Science and Technology Directorate U.S. Department of Homeland Security Sept 12,

2 Unified Incident UICDS is the middleware foundation that enables National Response Framework (NRF) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) information sharing and decision support among commercial and government incident management technologies used across the country to prevent, protect, respond, and recover from natural, technological, and terrorist events 2 2

3 The Goal of UICDS Is. Cross-domain Cross-role Cross-function Cross-echelon Cross-hazard Cross-application Information sharing and decision support for all individuals, teams, and organizations in the National Response Framework (NRF) and National Information Management System (NIMS), including Incident Command System (ICS) 3 3

4 UICDS Information Sharing and Decision Support Middleware Foundation UICDS creates user agents that talk to application agents to drive the right information to the right people at the right time UICDS UICDS adds intelligent connectivity to all compliant applications App Agent App Agent App Agent Individual applications continue to support users as before Dispatch Data Health Data Geospatial Data 4 4

5 The Result Is a UICDS Foundation That Replaces Information Chaos and Stovepipes With Information Sharing UICDS Modeling, Forecasting, and Geospatial Intelligence Data Interoperability UICDS Operations, Logistics, Assets, and Intelligence Data Interoperability Common Operating Picture Social Network Incident Logs Dispatch Resources SOPs UICDS Back-Office Records, Finance, and Administration Data Interoperability Warrants Accounting Personnel Preplans Permits Investigations Lessons UICDS Physical Security and Surveillance Data Interoperability 5 Maritime Sensors Detection Unmanned Aerial Biometric ID Iris Scans Video Analytics 5

6 What the UICDS Project Delivers The UICDS architecture specification that describes the standards and data model for technology providers to adapt their products and share information A prototype reference implementation that is a real-world, operational test environment that results in sample code for technology providers to use to adapt their products A national outreach program to expand awareness of the role of technology in homeland security 6 6

7 A UICDS Core Connects to External s to Gather Information 7 7

8 UICDS and Aggregators Information Source Visualization Visualization Information Source Aggregator Visualization Information Information Source Information Source Information Source Source 8 8

9 UICDS Incident Command and Decision Support System DHS S&T Program Manager: Michael B. Smith DHS S&T Technical Lead: Dr. Nabil R. Adam DHS S&T Program Support: Tomi` Finkle UICDS Project Community Outreach Director James W. Morentz, Ph.D UICDS Project Project Manager Chip Mahoney

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11 UICDS is an open-architecture middleware that allows multiple responding organizations to use their own applications to share information to jointly manage personnel, direct equipment, and seamlessly communicate, gather, store, redistribute, and secure mission-critical information needed by incident commanders and emergency responders during an emergency. (2) In the UICDS Core, Infrastructure Services move Fractional Data and Domain Services apply data to your specific needs by creating UICDS Work Products which will be exchanged among applications (3) When a Work Product is created or updated, all the applications interested in that specific content are alerted (4) Each Work Product has Fractional Data that provides key information on an incident provided by the originating application plus a Digest (Who, What, When, Where) automatically created by UICDS (1) UICDS Adapters connect applications to a UICDS Core and share a fraction of their detail data in standard formats through the UICDS Web Services (7) As data gets changed or improved in an application, the UICDS Adapter updates the incident Work Products, sharing the latest information with everyone permitted by UICDS Sharing Agreements (6) Each application visualizes data received from UICDS in its own interface, allowing users to process the data in their own familiar applications (5) Each UICDS Core has Agreements with other cores that allow data owners to share Work Products with other applications among agencies and across jurisdictions 11 11

12 Prototype Architecture Concept, CAP UICDS Web Services Enabled Via WSDL Interfaces 12 12

13 Technical Overview UICDS Is a Network of Peer-to-Peer UICDS Cores 13

14 Conceptual Relationship Between UICDS and External s External s External Dataset External Alerts or Records or Monitors or Models or Other Provider/Consumer Standards Agent Users of External s User Is a UICDS Subscriber UICDS Fractional Data References to External UICDS accumulates Fractional Data from many sources into UICDS situational awareness work products Publish 14 14

15 UICDS Provides Situational Awareness Through Fractional Data from External Systems External applications are always the ultimate source for the entire dataset available to external application users A subset of that data a fractional dataset can be exposed to UICDS by an external application that is a provider/consumer Fractional Data may include a reference (link) to the available external applications and source data The composite of the fractional data becomes the UICDS situational awareness information for an incident which UICDS publishes for use by external applications and users The user s agent understands when fractional data is sufficient and when to pull (given appropriate permissions) the additional external data from the external application Situational awareness sharing is enabled by work products, which are well-defined, logically grouped, and autonomous sets of data about an aspect of an incident 15 15