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UICDS™ is the “middleware foundation” that enables information sharing and decision support among commercial and government incident management technologies used to support the National Response

Framework (NRF) and National Incident Management System (NIMS), including the Incident Command Structure (ICS), in order to prevent,

protect, respond, and recover from natural, technological, and terrorist events – especially applied to the public-private interface.

Unified Incident Command and Decision Support™ (UICDS™) Middleware Enables Information Sharing Among Radiological Utilities and Government Responders – A DHS Project

www.UICDS.us Trademark Attributions are on slide 22 Acronym definitions are on slide 23

www.UICDS.us TM Trademark Attributions are on slide 22 Acronym definitions are on slide 23

Why We Can’t Share Information

• I won’t give anybody all the data I own • I’m too busy to take time to share • They won’t understand it and will misinterpret it • I need to trust the information I get and those I give it

to • Multiple sources of information will lead to

disagreements • We all use different formats • There is no way to share easily enough to make it

worth while


UICDS™ Program Background

• Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate, Infrastructure Protection and Disaster Management Division – Phase I – Four Contending UICDS Architectures – Phase II – Final Architecture and Reference Implementation – Phase III – Nationwide Pilots

• UICDS Architecture Specification describes the standards and interfaces

• UICDS reference implementation, software that is piloted in a real-world, operational environment and includes example code for technology providers to use to adapt their products


The Goal of UICDS™ Is ….

Information sharing and decision support for all individuals, teams, and organizations in the National Response Framework (NRF) and National Information Management System (NIMS), including the Incident Command System (ICS)

Potential UICDS users include police, fire, EMS, EOCs (local, state, tribal, federal), public works, health, transportation, infrastructure, NGOs

• Cross-domain • Cross-role • Cross-function • Cross-echelon • Cross-hazard • Cross-application


Basic Principles and Benefits of UICDS™

• Personnel • Facilities • Situation reports • Vulnerability analysis • Sensors and video • Mutual aid • Hazard forecasts • Geospatial mapping • Operations procedures

• Intelligence • Consequence assessment • Public information • Operations plans • Infrastructure • Finance and accounting • Science and technology • Maintenance status • And others

• Warnings • Dispatch • Analytical modeling • Lessons learned • Weather • Incident information • Training and exercises • Collaboration • Equipment and resources

• Share information according to agreements among applications that are already used by participating organizations

• No new user interfaces, training, or applications to purchase

• Never come between a system of record and a data owner, a data owner and its end-users, or an application and its customer

• Royalty-free software using open standards technology

• Continuously share more than situational awareness; UICDS™ enables collaboration among operational applications


Information Sharing: Not a Product, a Multi-part Process

• What is it? – Incident management means keeping multiple agencies informed

• Where is it? – The geospatial view

• Who’s in charge? – Organizing incident command or emergency support function

• Who should know? – Alerts from one authoritative source sending to many

• What’s the impact? – Understanding the environment by sharing sensors, cameras

• What’s happening? – Situational awareness or common operating picture aggregating many sources

into one for a shared view • What’s next?

– Action plans coordinate through the Incident Command System


Cycles of Information Sharing

What is it? Where is it? Who’s In Charge? Who Should Know? What’s the Impact? What’s Happening? What’s Next?

What is it? Where is it? Who’s In Charge? Who Should Know? What’s the Impact? What’s Happening? What’s Next?

Shared Knowledge

Shared Knowledge

Individual Agency Actions



UICDS™ Provides Continuous Information Sharing


Everybody Knows What They Need For Little Problems

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UICDS uses existing applications to visualize shared data – there is no UICDS user interface

UICDS adds intelligent connectivity to all compliant applications

Individual applications continue to support users as always

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UICDS™ Creates Information Sharing Among Existing Applications

Health Application

Awareness Application

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ICS Application

Dispatch Application

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Geospatial Application

Sensor Application


UICDS™ Is a Service Oriented Architecture With Standards-based Web Service Interfaces

XMPP via TCP Network


Data Standard

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Applications Are Connected to a UICDS™ Core

• Your Technology Providers write UICDS adapters for their applications that do two things:

(1) Translate application data into and out of UICDS data standards and

(2) Connect to UICDS web services to provide or consume data

• UICDS Cores can serve any set of organizations by using web services to connect and authenticate the application’s adapter

• Standardized data is distributed through the middleware based on sharing agreements

• Receiving applications consume the standardized data, visualize it, modify it

• The adapter provides the updated data back to UICDS middleware that distributes modified data to subscribing applications, and the sharing continues

UICDS™ Middleware Web Services

Web Services


Data Concepts and Standards

CAD Application

Detail Data

Metadata

Digest Data

Fractional Data

• The jurisdiction/end-user/application owns the Detailed Data to manage a response because the application user owns the response

• A UICDS™ Work Product (1) A “fraction” of the Detailed Data that is shared

through UICDS™ is enough to manage the relationship among response organizations

(2) UICDS automatically creates “Digest Data” based on the UCore standard that summarizes the who, what, where, and when

(3) Metadata provides the work product management information

• The Fractional Data is composed using defined data exchange standards –

• XML is the standard language • NIEM is the exchange dictionary • EDXL-DE, EDXL-RM, CAP, OGC WMS, OGC WFS,

OGC SOS, LEITSC, and others are the exchange formats

UICDS™ Middleware


• OGC Map Context • Map Feature • Binary File • Link

• URL • KML • GeoRSS • Core Feed

Incident Work Product

UICDS Map Work Product

• Role • Job • Accept

UICDS Task Work Product

Resource Management

(EDXL-RM) Request/Commit

OGC Sensor Observation

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• Section • Branch • Role

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Resource Person

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NIEM, CAP, LEITSC

Why Care? UICDS is All About Comprehensive and Actionable Content

UICDS Notification

Adapter Adapter

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Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

• ICS Forms

UICDS Incident Action Plan Work Product

• Applications create an Incident Work Product in UICDS by using their preferred message format

• UICDS notifies other applications with a UCore Digest of the incident (or update) plus details to obtain the work product

• UICDS creates an Incident Command Work Product to follow the “who” and “how”

• UICDS creates a Map Work Product to represent "where" and build a picture of the surrounding features

• UICDS provides and consumes CAP alerts • Tasking and dispatch applications assign

jobs to people and units • Sensor applications can contribute with

video, chem-bio, flood, whatever sensor is available to help explain the incident

• Resource applications use EDXL-RM to request and commit resources and EDXL-DE for routing

• The Incident Action Plan is created from ICS Forms describing “what” will be done


UICDS™ Is Deployed With Applications Sharing Information With Their Host UICDS Core


UICDS™ Core-to-core Sharing Agreements Allow Multi-agency and Multi-jurisdictional Sharing


UICDS™ Core-to-core Sharing Agreements Can Specify the Conditions to Include National Agencies


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Data Owners Control Who Gets What Data When

Detail Data

Detail Data

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Product End-User Access Control

End-User Access Control

Data Selection Control

SSL Authentication (HTTPS)

Data Ingest Control

SSL Authentication (HTTPS)

UICDS™ is as secure in data transfer as anything you do

UICDS™

Profile Service Controls Sharing

Bilateral Information

Sharing Agreements


Goal • The NJ Radiological Emergency Response Planning (RERP) Unit wishes to improve interoperability between the New Jersey State Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Operation Centers for PSE&G and Excelon Corporation, who are the critical infrastructure key resources (CIKR) owners and operators of New Jersey’s three nuclear power generating stations: Salem, Hope Creek and Oyster Creek. • The pilot will provide information sharing between the commercial emergency management applications NC4™ ETeam, used by NJ state OEM, and ESi® WebEOC®, used at the nuclear power station operation centers, at a minimum.

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New Jersey (NJ) RERP Pilot Planning Concept

Salem and Hope Creek

Oyster Creek New Jersey Office of

Emergency Management

Delaware Emergency

Management Agency


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PSEG WebEOC®

Coast Guard

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Excelon WebEOC®

UICDS Sharing: •PSEG Initial Message WebEOC® to State ETeam •Resource Requests and Commits •Hospital Availability •County Blue Force Tracking •Coast Guard JUMP

New Jersey Radiological Emergency Sharing Purpose: PSEG/Excelon WebEOC® Incidents Shared to State ETeam, Resource, and Local Sharing

UICDS™ Core

New Jersey ETeam Hippocrates/Health

Rutgers CIMIC Resources

Gloucester County

Drakontas

Rutgers CIMIC Hospital

Availability

Progress Key Current Effort Near-term Plan

Resource Management

Excelon = Excelon Corporation


UICDS™ Core

RERP Pilot Demonstration 1 Purpose: Originate WebEOC® PSEG Incident and Visualize in ETeam and Google Earth®

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UICDS™ is the Ideal Public-Private Interface

• UICDS shares information according to agreements so that the data owner retains complete control over data sharing

• UICDS is two-way collaborative information sharing, unlike COPs and situational awareness tools that are one-way, visualize-only

• UICDS is middleware that works with existing applications; there is no new user interface to learn, no application to buy, no cost to obtain it

• Your existing application can originate information to share, and it is notified when there is new or updated incident data from other organizations

• Your application uses the data, improves it, and adds related data that is shared 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


Comments and Discussions

UICDS™ Project Community Outreach Director

James W. Morentz, Ph.D. (703) 589-3706

[email protected]

DHS S&T Program Manager Michael B. Smith

[email protected]

DHS S&T Program Support Tomi` Finkle

[email protected]

UICDS™ Project Project Manager Chip Mahoney (917) 574-7356

[email protected]

DHS S&T Technical Lead Dr. Nabil R. Adam

[email protected]

TM


Trademark Attributions

• Unified Incident Command and Decision Support, UICDS, and the UICDS logo are trademarks of the United States Department of Homeland Security in the United States and/or other countries.

• SAIC is a registered trademark of Science Applications International Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

• Opensearch is a registered trademark of A9.com, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

• Intergraph is a registered trademark of Intergraph Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

• ESi and WebEOC are registered trademarks of ESI Acquisition, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

• NC4 is a trademark of NC4 Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

• Google is a registered trademark of Google Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Acronym Definitions

• CAP = Common Alerting Protocol • CIKR = Critical Infrastructure Key Resource • CIMIC = Center for Information Management, Integration and

Connectivity • COP = Common Operational Picture • DB = database • DEMA = Delaware Emergency Management Agency • DHS = Department of Homeland Security • EDXL = Emergency Data Exchange Language • EDXL-DE = EDXL Distribution Element • EDXL-RM = EDXL Resource Messaging • EOC = Emergency Operations Center • EMS = Emergency Management System • FD = fire department • FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency • GeoRSS = an emerging Web feed standard for encoding

location • GIS = Geographical Information System • HSIN = Homeland Security Information Network • ICMF = Initial Contact Management Form • ICS = Incident Command System/Structure • IEPs = Information Exchange Packages • IIMG = Interagency Incident Management Group • JDBC = Java Database Connectivity • JFOCG = Joint Field Office Coordination Group • LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol • LEITSC = Law Enforcement Information Technology

Standards Council

• MACS = Multi-agency Coordination System • MEMA = Maryland Emergency Management Agency • NGO = Non-Government Organization • NIEM = National Information Exchange Model • NIMS = National Information Management System • NOC = National Operations Center • NRF = National Response Framework • OEM = Office of Emergency Management • OGC = Open Geospatial Consortium • OGC-SOS = OGC Sensor Observation Service • PDA = Personal Digital Assistant • PSEG = Public Service Enterprise Group • RERP = Radiological Emergency Response Planning • RRCC = Regional Response Coordination Center • SAFECOM = a DHS communications program • SIOC = Strategic information and operations center • SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol • SOPs = Standard Operating Procedures • TCP = Transmission Control Protocol • UICDS™ = Unified Incident Command and Decision

Support™ • WFS = Web Feature Service • WMS = Web Map Service • WPS = Web Processing Service • WS = Web Services • WSDL = Web Service Definition Language • XMPP = Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

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