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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
March 29, 2011 In this issue ...
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 "UICDS The Movie" Features an Operator's View of How Applications Benefit from Data Sharing Through UICDS in Our Biweekly Call Thursday March 31 at Noon ET
UICDS The Movie is a short summary of UICDS featuring more than a dozen different applications that serve the needs of the emergency management community sharing information. If you are an emergency management operator, this is your chance to see the UICDS Tree of Incident Knowledge grow before your eyes.
UICDS Technology Providers - companies, governments, and universities -demonstrate the integration of their application with UICDS.
This presentation of UICDS consists of a two-minute introduction to UICDS from the perspective of content - what information moves through UICDS and how it combines to provide what is needed to make collaborative decisions in an incident command or emergency operations center.
Then, more than a dozen different technologies are quickly described in their interactions with UICDS. You will see how UICDS delivers two-way, one-to-many collaboration among incident management applications beginning with dispatch, moving through resources, including geospatial data including effects of a chemical plume, and concluding with a common operating picture. All the different ways individual agencies look at information today - but with UICDS all those agencies are sharing standardized data so everyone has the current view of what is needed to resolve the problem.
Following the premiere of UICDS The Movie we will be asking for your ideas on what more you need to learn about UICDS and what we need to provide to best explain the benefits to the non-technical user. We are looking to get your needs and input through a question and answer session.
And, as always, we will have our popular "open mic" session where you can ask anything about anything. And get answers from the UICDS Team experts.
To join the UICDS The Movie premiere and our biweekly "open mic":
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 Tools: Incident and Map Sharing Tutorial now on UICDS Collaboration Platform at UICDS.us
On the March 19 UICDS Tutorial and Biweekly Call we saw the UICDS Tree of Incident Knowledge grow before our eyes.
The demonstration illustrated some of our current UICDS Tools and example code that you can download and use in your own applications. The demonstrations included how UICDS is being used in a pilot being conducted by Direct Relief International in California. Their need for tsuanmi and earthquake information to support their international relief efforts brought them to UICDS and the rapid implementation of the UICDS Tool RSS Injector.
In the tutorial you will see not only is information shared, it is improved by the actions of many applications, each sharing their specific data to form incident knowledge through two-way, one-to-many collaboration among incident management applications through UICDS.
You also 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 geospatial 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.
View the UICDS Incident and Map Sharing 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? |
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Use the UICDS Development Kit To Win Contracts that Require UICDS Compliance
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?
Now there is a guide to what it means to "comply" with UICDS. Get the new UICDS Compliance Overview report to see the details. And you can see and listen to the UICDS Compliance Tutorial about compliance with UICDS v 1.1 on the UICDS Collaboration Portal. 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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