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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. |
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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@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
June 22, 2011 In this issue ...
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 UICDS Pilot in Richmond Featured on Biweekly Tutorial Call This Thursday, June 23 at Noon ET
One of the "early adopter" UICDS Technology Providers, Intergraph®, in cooperation with Augusta Systems and the City of Richmond, has made UICDS the center of information sharing between the Intergraph computer-aided dispatch used by Richmond and other Virginia organizations. The progress of this UICDS Pilot is summarized below and will be the featured discussion on the June 23 UICDS Biweekly Call.
In making the announcement of the pilot, Intergraph said: "Intergraph is the first computer-aided dispatch (CAD) provider to implement a pilot interface for UICDS."
"Coordinated information-sharing is the key to critical incident response," said Patrick Esposito, president and chief executive officer of Augusta Systems. "EdgeFrontier from Augusta Systems acts as a bi-directional interface between the UICDS core and Intergraph's Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, monitoring incidents from each system and updating the other as necessary. We are proud to work with Intergraph and SAIC on this important project for the Richmond area."
"The City of Richmond and Intergraph have a successful history of partnering on standards-based interoperability initiatives," Intergraph reports. "Richmond's two-year pilot External Alarm Interface Exchange project, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, automated the communications between alarm companies and public safety answering points (PSAPs) to reduce calls from residential and commercial security companies by approximately 6,000 annually."
"The City of Richmond is excited to reach new heights in the world of mission critical information sharing across the emergency management and public safety domains. Richmond has enjoyed its partnership with Intergraph as evidenced by the outstanding and continued success of the External Alarm Interface Exchange project, which is now an American National Standard," said Bill Hobgood, Project Manager, City of Richmond. "With the UICDS project, we look forward to another joint success made possible by the Intergraph, SAIC, and Augusta Systems team."
"Intergraph places a high priority on driving industry standards that enable interoperability across agencies and jurisdictions," said John K. Graham, president, Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure. "Intergraph will continue to work with SAIC and the Department of Homeland Security to ensure our customers can support National Incident Management System (NIMS)-compliant interoperability. "
Please join the UICDS call to learn more about progress on UICDS deployment in Richmond. And, as always, we will have our popular "open mic" session on our Thursday call where you can ask anything about anything. And get answers from the UICDS Team experts.
To join the tutorial and our biweekly 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 Enhanced Administrative Console Tutorial and Biweekly Call Now Available on UICDS Collaboration Platform at UICDS.us
On our last UICDS Tutorial and Biweekly Call we learned about the new UICDS Enhanced Administrative Console. The call is now available on the UICDS Collaboration Platform.
The UICDS Administrative Console allows System Adminstrators to manage their local UICDS Core. Improvements to the Administrative Console have been made to enhance the ability of System Administrators to manage their UICDS connections, view the Work Products currently active on the UICDS Core, and understand the current health and status of the UICDS Core.
A new version of the UICDS Admin Console will be released shortly. The UICDS Admin Console has always shown what was happening on the Core. Here is a view of administering Agreements. The new Work Product view includes not only the Digest and Metadata but also now all the fields in the Fractional Data payload. The biggest improvement to the new UICDS Admin Console is the Health and Status view giving a look at all the components of a complete UICDS implementation.
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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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