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DHS S&T Says Next-Gen Incident Command System Ready For First Responders

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, August 15th, 2016

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An information sharing tool for first responders that was developed by a team led by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is now operational and available worldwide, for free, the government branch said this month.The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS) is a mobile, web-based communication platform that has transitioned to the open-source community and is freely available for anyone interested, S&T said.Funding for NICS was led by S&T with contributions from the Coast Guard’s Research…

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