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Precision Information Environment for Collaborative Emergency Support (PIECES)

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Homeland Security 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
94754 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
1011078 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
H-SB010.1-003 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Charles River Analytics Inc.
625 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Precision Information Environment for Collaborative Emergency Support (PIECES)
Agency: DHS
Contract: N10PC20202
Award Amount: $99,737.08
 

Abstract:

Decision makers responding to homeland security incidents must rapidly integrate and manage dynamic, time-sensitive information from a large number of heterogeneous and multimodal information sources accessed through a variety of software applications, all while collaborating in real-time as efficiently as possible. To address these issues, we propose to design and evaluate a Precision Information Environment for Coordinated Emergency Support (PIECES). Four core components characterize our approach. First, we will streamline access to multiple information resources by building PIECES on a software framework that can fuse heterogeneous information sources and present these sources through a single access point. Second, we will support the manipulation, understanding, and exploitation of correlated data sources by providing users with an integrated view of the data through advanced, human-centered, multimodal display tools within a fully tailorable environment. Third, we will support collaboration between teams of local and distributed personnel by providing a collaborative work environment that lets teams share and manipulate data sources in real-time, then digitally capture collaborative output. Fourth, we will assess the feasibility of our approach by leveraging existing in-house technology and other systems to rapidly design and prototype conceptual information display tools and collaborative capabilities for the PIECES system.

Principal Investigator:

Ryan M. Kilgore
6174913474
rkilgore@cra.com

Business Contact:

Ninos E. Hanna
6174913474
nhanna@cra.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Charles River Analytics Inc.
625 MOUNT AUBURN ST CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138

EIN/Tax ID: 042803764
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
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