Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management (EMWS09) UC Irvine, CA November 5-6, 2009 Dr. Nabil Adam (nabil.adam@dhs.gov) Fellow/Senior Program Manager Infrastructure & Geophysical Division Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security 1

- Interoperability and Expandability Data Analysis Standards Emergency Management – Incident, Resources, and Supply Chain Management Basic Pillars - Information Sharing - Incident Management - Interoperability and Expandability Data Analysis Standards Information sharing GIS and maps Alerts and incident reports Sensor Plumes Data Analysis Incident management– planning, execution, and monitoring Incident command system organization and structure Resource management – discovery, allocation, and status monitoring Interoperability and Expandability Information Sharing Incident Management Interoperability & Expandability Data Analysis

Information Sharing Intelligent - Policies, security, privacy, etc.) GIS based – Geo-spatial standards Sharing of Alert data Sharing – CAP Sensors (numerous types) Data – OGC-SOS Documents/data related to Incident Management and Planning Information sharing in an intelligent way UICDS Information is shared based on: Roles and responsibilities and relevance of the information to the recipients Policies of the information/data owner Characteristics of the recipient device GIS Data Sharing Follows OGC (e.g., WFS, WMS, SLD, WCS), ISO, FGDC standards for sharing of any GIS data Data can be received/provided from/to external applications Does not provide a GIS data viewer Enables alert data Sharing Follows CAP standard for alert data management Alerts can be received/sent from/to any external application that can transmit or receive CAP alerts Enables Sensor Data Sharing UICDS allows external sensors that are Open Geospatial Consortium Sensor Observation Specification (OGC-SOS) compliant to be registered as UICDS resources. Observations or measurements made by these sensors are used to support incident related activities. The information required to retrieve sensor observations is stored as UICDS work products that are associated with the incident. Provides operations to–Create, update, delete Sensor Observation Information UICDS allows external sensors to be registered as UICDS resources Observations/measurements made by these sensors are used to support incident related activities Other documents/data related to Incident Management and Planning Incident action plan; incident command system (ICS) forms; resource management data (EDXL-messages) Interoperability & Expandability Information Sharing Incident Management Data Analysis

Incident Management Incorporates incident command structure, incident action plans, and ICS forms Provides reasoning capabilities to assist IC for identifying: 1-Appropriate response plan 2-Required resources and their location 3-Response agencies that can be assigned to the various response activities Provides functionalities, data, and tools for Incident response planning, execution, monitoring/tracking UICDS incorporates the functionalities for incident management Incident command structure The response personnel to view and manage their tasks and resources Incident action plan and ICS forms status reporting Resource request, allocation, and tracking coordination among agencies – task assignment Provides reasoning capabilities to assist IC for identifying: 1-Appropriate response plan 2-Required resources and their location 3-Response agencies that can be assigned to the various response activities Provides functionalities, data, and tools for: -Incident response planning (e.g., loading and viewing appropriate response plan for a given area and for a specific incident) -Execution (coordination among agencies for response execution, assigning tasks to agencies, identifying regions where response activities need to be carried out ) -Monitoring/tracking (e.g., tracking activity status) Information Sharing Incident Management Interoperability & Expandability Data Analysis

Interoperability & Expandability Built on industry standards (SOA), to enable interoperability with external applications, e.g. Resource management, analytical tools/simulations Provides the building blocks (data, basic functionalities & tools) for composing new applications Service-based framework and adoption of standards enable interoperability with external applications of any sort plug & play approach External applications can be added or replaced with more advanced applications Provides the building blocks (data, basic functionalities & tools) for composing new applications Example of a Composite Application -- Get incident Data from UICDS Core -- provide Weather and Hazmat Data to UICDS Core -- This data is used by another application connected to UICDS to generate Plume Model -- Pass the Plume Model to a Traffic Service for Identifying alternate routes to Hazmat traffic. Interoperability & Expandability InforInformation Sharing Incident Management Data Analysis Data Analysis

Interoperability & Expandability Data Analysis Data Analysis Not necessarily includes an internal data analysis component Provides plug and play support to external data analysis applications Data Analysis UICDS core does not include and internal data analysis component Provide plug and play support to external data analysis applications Any external application can retrieve data from UICDS Core, process/analyze data, and send the results back to UICDS Core, which can be stored in the UICDS situational awareness DB Depending on the incident scenario, location, and requirements, the external analysis applications can be added or replaced with more advance applications Information Sharing Incident Management Interoperability & Expandability Data Analysis

Interoperability & Expandability Standards Complies with and Supports: NIMS, NRF and ICS standards and others Industry standards Data Analysis UICDS core does not include and internal data analysis component Provide plug and play support to external data analysis applications Any external application can retrieve data from UICDS Core, process/analyze data, and send the results back to UICDS Core, which can be stored in the UICDS situational awareness DB Depending on the incident scenario, location, and requirements, the external analysis applications can be added or replaced with more advance applications Information Sharing Incident Management Interoperability & Expandability Data Analysis

Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) A Basic Framework to build on A “middleware foundation” for Enabling information sharing and decision support among commercial and government incident management technologies Follows a standards-based service-oriented architecture Enables information sharing, e.g., geospatial data, sensor feeds, alerts, plumes, security and privacy policies Provides functionalities, data, and tools for Incident response planning, execution, monitoring/tracking, and adaptation Coordination among agencies Task assignment and status monitoring Resource discovery, allocation, and tracking