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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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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 15, 2011 In this issue ...
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 UICDS Tools: Incidents, Mapping, Sharing Tutorial, Demonstation, and Biweekly Call Thursday March 17 at Noon ET
An incident from one application, a location from a GIS, and see the combination on another application.
See the UICDS Tree of Incident Knowledge grow before your eyes.
The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate some of our current UICDS Tools and example code. You will see how an incident created without a location, say from an RSS feed or an application, can be shared with a GIS application which adds its own special information to the incident. In this case, adds a location.
Then, when another application looks at the incident, it sees not just the incident but the incident and location.
Not only is information shared, it is improved by the composite of all applications, each sharing their specific data to form incident knowledge.
Join us on this call to see how the Tree of Incident Knowledge grows and how UICDS delivers two-way, one-to-many collaboration among incident management applications.
Following the tutorial, we will have our always popular "open mic" session where you can ask anything about anything. And get answers from the UICDS Team experts.
To join the tutorial and our biweekly "open mic" call:
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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UICDS Compliance Overview Tutorial Now Available on UICDS.us
What it means to "comply" with UICDS - An overview of UICDS Web Services and Data Exchange Standards
This tutorial is designed for a manager who wants to tell his or her technical people what to do with UICDS.
The 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.
The tutorial covered:
- 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.
View the UICDS Compliance Overview tutorial.
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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