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EL SEGUNDO, CA - November 27, 2007
– NC4,
Inc., a leader in situational awareness, incident
monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration,
today announced that Dallas County’s Office of Security and
Emergency Management, in conjunction with the Dallas Urban
Area Security Initiative (UASI) has deployed E Team to
enhance emergency preparedness throughout the region. This
deployment allows counties and jurisdictions within the UASI
to extend their crisis management capabilities and ensures
information-sharing among Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs)
throughout North Central Texas.
“During a disaster, it is imperative that we move from
response to recovery as quickly and seamlessly as possible,”
said Robie Robinson, director of security and emergency
management, Dallas County, Texas. “To expedite the
response/recovery times, we decided to implement a common
incident management software program that enables vital
information sharing across the region – thus increasing the
efficiency and accuracy of threat, incident, and recovery
information.”
Funded via a Department of Homeland Security grant, Dallas
County implemented six locally-hosted systems which work
together with a series of Application Service Provider (ASP)
implementations to allow the UASI to share critical
information in real time. E Team provides users in North
Central Texas with a common operational picture through
standardized summaries, reports, requests, notifications,
directives, and annotated maps, as well as a resource
tracking utility.
E Team also provides the region with a complete set of
Web-based incident management tools such as geographic
information system capabilities, instantaneous sorting and
prioritizing of critical data, as well as a common framework
for information sharing.
“E Team empowers cooperation, coordination, and
collaboration,” Robinson said. “It has the right
functionality, usability, and robust design, all rolled into
one easy-to-use platform. It is the right solution for
Dallas County and the surrounding areas. E Team allows us to
deliver on our mission – to protect citizens from all
hazards by providing and coordinating resources, expertise,
leadership, and advocacy through a comprehensive, risk-based
security and emergency management program of prevention,
mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.”
E Team Connect
Considering the requirements of smaller organizations that
have little to no IT support, NC4 offers the E Team Connect
incident management solution – an entry-level version of E
Team delivered through the ASP. Affordably priced, E Team
Connect provides the necessary modules for incident
management and is ideal for agencies with little to no
internal information technology support. The solution
empowers agencies to share information with surrounding
jurisdictions during an area-wide crisis.
E Team Demonstration
NC4 will demonstrate E Team and E Team Connect December 3-7
in San Antonio, Texas at the Texas Homeland Security
Conference. Sponsored by the Governor’s Division of
Emergency Management, the conference is one of the premier
training events for emergency management and homeland
security professionals in the United States. The Texas
Homeland Security Conference provides over 100 workshops and
classes on topics such as border operations, technical
training, and emergency management. NC4 representatives will
be available at booth #407 for demonstrations and
interviews.
About NC4
NC4, through its incident monitoring centers, improves the
Situational Awareness to both business and government
clients by providing real-time, global, 24x7 proactive
incident information and alerts. NC4 issues timely,
relevant, and personalized alerts covering incidents near an
organization’s key locations that may impact life and
safety, physical assets, and continuity of operations. This
includes incidents such as transportation, severe weather,
hazmat, law enforcement, fire, terrorism, and other
incidents that have the potential to cause disruption.
Additionally, NC4 provides Situational Response through its
E Team offering, which provides sophisticated software and
planning tools to enable emergency managers to effectively
process the massive amounts of information generated during
a major event, crisis, or disaster. E Team’s Windows-based,
browser-accessible software has been used for project
management during events ranging from 9/11, multiple
Olympics, and political conventions to hurricanes and other
natural disasters.
NC4 also provides Secure Communications and Collaboration
through its ESP offerings. ESP is an application service
provider that provides government agencies and corporations
with a common platform for secure communication and
collaboration. ESP provides a thorough security solution for
diverse organizations to share Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU)
information through highly secure, compartmented,
web-accessible portals.
For more information, see
www.nc4.us
For More Information, contact: O’Keeffe &
Company, Inc. (703) 883-9000
info@nc4.us
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