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COMCARE’s E-Safety program supports the deployment of attainable technologies and charts a new, aggressive course for emergency communications and information technologies used by the emergency response community. Designed to focus on technology and operations aspects, the program provides expertise, guidance, resources and tools to national emergency response agencies, elected officials, state administrators and local leaders to deploy integrated safety and security communications and information technologies.
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THE NEED
Until now, the emergency response community has had limited success coordinating response due to inadequate, insecure, and incompatible training tools and information technologies. Current systems don’t work, break down, or are not scaleable. Incidents demand a more integrated information technology framework that meets the needs of all emergency responders for all types of emergency events.
COMCARE’S APPROACH
COMCARE and its members continually work with leading organizations and the information technology industry to ensure that the emergency response community has access to modern technologies and has the ability to communicate effectively before, during and after an emergency event. Ideas are continually formulated and incorporated into the E-Safety Vision as new advances and approaches are identified.
The E-Safety Vision represents a unified emergency Web services information architecture that ties together the various data systems used by law enforcement, fire, emergency management, public health, emergency medical, transportation, and homeland security and others. It treats the entire emergency response community as one extended enterprise, providing a framework within which each entity can operate. It is open, platform-neutral, and standards-based to enable flexible interoperability across organizations, technology platforms, and implementation methods.
The vision is a collection of technologies and best practices that enable data interoperability across the emergency response spectrum. The diagram below represents the components needed to achieve this vision. These components have been identified and incorporated into the emergency communications report authored by the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council, Focus Group 1D of the Federal Communications Commission in which COMCARE participated. Contents of future reports from Focus Group 1D will include the transition issues for the recommended target architectures and a proposed resolution of these transition issues along with a timeframe for their implementation.
FROM VISION TO REALITY
Currently COMCARE is involved in a number of initiatives to advance the E-Safety program. All of these initiatives are highlighted in this section and summarized under the corresponding interoperability component.
- Transport
- Data Standards
- Enterprise Services
- Agency Applications
- Policies and Protocols
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