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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
Apply to be a UICDS Pilot and get your own complete UICDS installation, including support, to improve your information sharing. Make your request now. |
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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UICDS is now on LinkedIn, the premier business-related social networking site. The site is self-described as the "unofficial UICDS discussion group" among Technology Providers and End-Users. To join the discussion group,  |
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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
March 1, 2011 In this issue ...
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 UICDS Conformance Overview Tutorial and Biweekly Call Thursday March 3 at Noon ET
What it means to "comply" with UICDS - An overview of UICDS Web Services and Data Exchange Standards
The purpose of this tutorial is to describe what it means to "conform" with UICDS for a manager who wants to tell his or her technical people what to do with UICDS.
At this time there is no formal compliance testing program for UICDS. However, this tutorial and the accompanying documentation can be used by a potential purchaser of incident management technology to specify what UICDS compliance means to their specific Request for Proposal.
The tutorial and documentation also can be used by Technology Providers to plan their integration efforts to achieve maximum match between their applications and the many forms of UICDS information sharing.
The tutorial covers:
- Required and Optional Web Services
- Data Elements in Work Products, Required and Optional
- Standards Employed in UICDS Data Exchanges
At the conclusion of the tutorial, and by using the documentation, you will be able to describe to your colleagues how you will be using UICDS to share information in a way that complies with the UICDS objective of two-way, one-to-many sharing.
To join the tutorial and our biweekly "open mic" call where you can ask anything about anything:
Call 800-366-7242 and use code 735108 at noon ET. Web Collaboration: Click here and enter Conference Reference: 601203 Attendee PIN: 1143 |
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See the Popular Military-Civilian UICDS Interoperability Demonstration Video
The UICDS Collaboration Portal has be humming with people looking at the video of a military-civilian informaiton sharing demonstration conducted by t he Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Anytime you can share information among a dozen different, incompatible applications it attracts attention. So, in case you missed it, here are the homeland security technologies in current civilian and military use that were interconnected through UICDS.
- 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 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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UICDS Tools: The RSS Injector Tutorial Now Available on UICDS.us
The UICDS Tutorial on February 15 is now available for viewing on the UICDS Collaboration Portal. This tutorial showed an application and example code for UICDS output via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to provide a "feed" of data that can be subscribed to by an application. This allows point-to-point, application-to-application one-way delivery of data.
We also showed the common variant of the RSS feed, GeoRSS, which enables the channel to carry content that includes geographic locations, plus some related feature descriptions, that receiving applications can use to display on maps.
The UICDS Tool, RSS Injector, is designed to show adapter developers how to create adapters to ingest RSS and GeoRSS feeds. The reason for doing this in UICDS is to (a) create a one-to-many relationship for important feeds so that they are shared among UICDS applications without each application having to separately consume the feed and (b) to allow applications to select feeds to associate with an incident and select items from a feed to associate with an incident.
Version 1 of the UICDS Tools RSS Injector was released last month.
This UICDS Tool is intended to illustrate the capabilities of UICDS to ingest RSS and GeoRSS feeds; however, the most important role of the tool is to provide example code for developers to employ in their own applications and adapters.
To view the demonstration and tutorial on the RSS Injector UICDS Tool go to the UICDS Collaboration Portal.
If you do not have access to the portal, go to www.UICDS.us and register either as a Technology Provider or a potential UICDS Pilot site (in the boxes at the bottom of the home page) and by answering a few questions we will get you login information. |
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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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