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UICDS keeps you better informed so you can make better decisions. UICDS is information sharing middleware for NIMS incident management that continuously receives and shares standardized data among many agencies during an incident. Your everyday application gets from UICDS exactly the data you need to use, visualize, process, improve, decide, and then share back through UICDS to keep everyone informed.
Because UICDS is middleware, there is no new user interface to learn, no cost to obtain it, and you retain complete control over your data. You get notified when an agency has provided new or updated incident data and you share your data with whom you want instantaneously and in the background without any disruption to your operation.
With UICDS you are better informed, your partners are better informed, and together you all make better response decisions. |
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Get UICDS Free from the Department of Homeland Security
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Learn All About UICDS Interoperability Middleware in Just Two Minutes
Your time is valuable, so here it is in a nutshell.
UICDS is middleware to share information among applications used by all levels of government and critical infrastructure to manageincidents. UICDS has no end-user interface, so there is no training or new applications to buy.
You should care about UICDS if you manage emergencies or provide technologies to those who manage emergencies.
Click here for a two minute video introduction of UICDS from the UICDS.us website. |
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General Information
uicds@dhs.gov
DHS S&T Program Manager Michael B. Smith Email Now DHS S&T Program Support Tomi` Finkle Email Now UICDS Project Manager Chip Mahoney Email Now UICDS Outreach Director James W. Morentz, Ph.D. Email Now |
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UICDS Update
The Department of Homeland Security Information Sharing Technology Program
February 1, 2011 In this issue ...
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 ESRI™ ArcGIS™ UICDS Adapter: Newest UICDS Tool Tutorial February 3rd
Operational Applications and Example Code for Developers
You have your GIS with lots of data on it. And you have an incident. How do you share only the relevant information with all your responding forces? They do not want to know where all your resources are or every stream gauge reading. Rather, you want to give them the geospatial view that is useful to them and nothing more. The ESRI™ ArcGIS™ UICDS Adapter does exactly that. UICDS Tools were introduced at our last biweekly call and tutorial as applications that demonstrate the capabilities of UICDS and enhance our library of example code for developers. As we said on the call, these UICDS Tools are free, downloadable, and not intended to be long-term solutions to information management. Rather, they are small applications that illustrate a UICDS capability that should be incorporated into commercial, government, and academic emergency management applications. The February 3rd biweekly call will include a tutorial on the ESRI™ ArcGIS™ UICDS Adapter. The ESRI adapter enables the following capabilities: - Within ArcGIS desktop, a widget accesses the UICDS Incident Service and provides a list of all current incidents
- ArcGIS geospatial data near those incidents can be displayed from local sources or from remote web service-enabled sources
- Individual data items can be selected as relevant to an incident on ArcGIS
- The UICDS Adapter widget associates selected data with the UICDS incident
- The adapter publishes the selected geospatial data as part of the UICDS Map Work Product associated with the incident
- UICDS then notifies other applications that there is new geospatial data available and exactly the right information is shared to your emergency response partners
The next UICDS biweekly call and tutorial will take place Thursday, February 3rd and will feature the new ESRI ArcGIS adapter. Call 800-366-7242 and use code 735108 at noon ET. |
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UICDS Featured in Military-Civilian Interoperability Demonstration Video
A new video has been released by the Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey showing the UICDS middleware as their key component to enable information sharing among homeland security technologies developed by both commercial organizations from civilian use and military applications.
- Eteam™ from NC4
- IRRIS™ from GeoDecisions
- WebEOC™ from ESI911
- ESA Portal™ from NC4
- ESRI COP™ from Environmental Systems Research Institute
- Google Earth™ from Google
- CPOF, Command Post of the Future from the Army Battle Command Systems
- FBCB2, Force XXI Battle Comand Brigade and Below from the Army Battle Command Systems
- WebPuff from the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
- JSIF, Joint Situational Awareness Interoperability Framework from ARDEC
- RDDB, Resource Directory Database from the State of New Jersey
- iTeam, Information Technology for Emergency Management from Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity
The demonstration displayed the effectiveness of using UICDS by allowing disparate emergency management applications to interoperate for:
- Multi-agency Common Operating Picture (COP)
- Resource Messaging
- Chemical Release
- Event Correlation
The demonstration video is now on the UICDS Collaboration Platform and may be reached by following this link: View UICDS Military-Civilian Interoperability Demonstration Video. |
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Handling Binary, Link, and Shapefiles
Example Code and Tutorial Now Available
During our biweekly call and tutorial on January 20, we introduced three tools that help to add information to the UICDS Tree of Incident Knowledge. UICDS Tools are part of a "starter kit" of application example code that all UICDS Technology Providers can access to speed their way to full UICDS conformance. The audio and video demonstration and discussion of the tools is now available on the UICDS Collaboration Platform under UICDS Tools Binary, Link, Shapefile Tutorial. The tools introduced on the January 20 tutorial are:
- Link and Binary Work Products Submitter used to associate links and binary files to an incident.
- Shapefile Submitter used to associate ESRI Shapefiles to an incident.
- Link/Binary/Shapefile (LBS) Viewer which reaches into the UICDS Core, identifies all the incidents that have link, binary, or Shapefiles associated with them, and then enables the viewing of those files through the appropriate program.
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Become a UICDS Pilot - Yours from DHS
Tired of watching and want to get involved? Are you a government agency that knows you shoud share information better? Critical infrastructure owner/operator in need of coordination with governments? Technology provider who wants to better serve emergency management and response organizations? |
Use the UICDS Development Kit To Win Contracts that Require UICDS Conformance
Recently, the State of California and the State of West Virginia both issued requests for proposals that called for UICDS compliance as a condition of the contract. Feeling left behind?
If this is you ... and you don't want to be excluded from future bids ... just answer a few questions to get the UICDS Development Kit and example code to build your UICDS Adapter today. Get started by clicking here. |
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