Federal emergency workers in the field will get their own mobile communications systems.
The Department of Health and Human Services is equipping vans for Emergency Response Teams. About eight to 10 experts from NIH, CDC and FDA can be deployed across the country within 24 to 48 hours of an incident using laptop, handheld computers and satellite communications. The concept is part of the Federal Response Plan.
E Team’s Web-based, enterprise-level collaborative solution has been designed for key players at every level - federal, state, and local - to create, share, and update in real time the critical information needed to prepare for, respond to, and recover from major incidents.
Customers include:
- First responders
- Emergency operations managers
- Public health officials
- Facility and event security managers
- Managers in other public agencies, corporations, and non-profit organizations
- Public information officers
E Team is designed to assist organizations whenever there are multiple entities (departments/agencies) involved in managing a problem. It handles any incident, planned or unplanned, including the small and large incidents that companies, organizations, cities and jurisdictions face every day.
Numerous cities and counties including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Houston, Phoenix, Oakland, Orlando and Clark County (WA), use it. Washington, D.C., will activate a citywide emergency response network next month. The fiber-optic communications network, called DC-NET, is modeled after similar systems in Portland, Ore., and Chicago.
Washington DC is also utilizing Wi-Fi in its collaborative CapWin wireless network (FAQ).
XML-based collaborative software is used by Homeland Security by CapWin and E-Team. But why not take E-Team’s feature set and make it relevant to 13-18 year olds:
- Incident reports (hot dates & gossip)
- Duty logs (class & work schedules)
- Call logs (voice messaging)
- Hospital status reports (messages from home)
- Security incident reports (ex boy & girl friends)
- Alarm incident reports (new CDs & Videos at Hollywood)
- Store incident reports (sales on checked clothing & accessories)
- Asset management (bank account)
- Resource requests (road trip)
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