Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] says it has successfully deployed the Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) system to the cloud during the National Level Exercise for 2011. UICDS is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology branch with SAIC as the prime contractor. The system enables police, fire, emergency medical and management, and other response organizations to use incident management technologies to share information and collaborate to help protect, respond, and recover from natural disasters, and other technological and terrorist incidents. “Deploying UICDS to the cloud for the UICDS NLE 11 Technology Showcase demonstrates the flexibility of the system’s architecture,” says Chip Mahoney, SAIC’s UICDS project manager. “Cloud deployments can be very helpful to first responders and emergency managers, providing scalability during large scale events such as earthquakes as well as access to UICDS information sharing to those who lack the IT infrastructure but have a need to collaborate with their counterparts.”
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