Government agencies show off their new radiological information sharing system

Posted by Larry Neumann on Aug 24, 2011

In the past, we’ve issued a couple of press releases (here and here) about some of the work we have done with the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We’ve been working together for the past 18 months or so to deliver cross-agency sharing of real-time information about radiological activity from sensors in major cities,...
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Filed under Geospatial Routing, Government, Messaging, Sensor Networks
Tagged with DHS, DNDO, ISE, niem, radiological, sensor network

Evolving the Digital Nervous System

Posted by Hans Jespersen on Oct 5, 2010

Metaphors in enterprise architecture are a dime a dozen and I find that many of them just don’t work for me.  However, I have always liked the concept of the digital nervous system. Despite the term getting extensive use in Bill Gates’ 1999 book Business @ The Speed of Thought, it is unfortunate that the concept remains largely that – a concept – more than a decade later. The idea is...
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Filed under Geospatial Routing, Government, News Release
Tagged with command and control, digital nervous systems, emergency response, niem, SCTA, sense and respond

Come See us at TCIP 2010

Posted by Larry Neumann on Feb 1, 2010

For the next few days our government team will be immersed in the world of emergency messaging and alerting at the Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness conference in Philadelphia. We’ll be in booth #505, so please stop by if you’re in the neighborhood. We look forward to discussing the announcements we made last week (DHS/DNDO as a customer, Thermo Fisher as a partner, and our new...
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Filed under Geospatial Routing, Government
Tagged with cap, eas, EDXL, niem, tcip

An emergency response demo that was a real train wreck

Posted by Hans Jespersen on Oct 7, 2009

Standards body meetings aren’t usually all that exciting, but last week’s National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Training Event and OASIS Emergency Management Interop was an exception. The centerpiece of the Interop was a demo designed to show how NIEM, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) standards could help a dozen government agencies share...
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Filed under Geospatial Routing, Government, Messaging
Tagged with cap, dm-open, edxl-de, fema, niem, oasis