Crisis responders face challenges that can be reduced by substantially improved monitoring, up-to-date situational awareness, and timely dissemination of data to responders. Information technology advancements will be leveraged to provide COTs driven solutions that greatly improve the monitoring and decision-making processes required for rapid response. Conversion of the vast amounts of data to knowledge is key to the scalable crisis management system architecture to be developed under Phase I. Components in sensor monitoring, situational awareness, and knowledge dissemination to facilitate rapid response under challenging conditions are addressed.ORINCON will develop a rapidly deployable, scaleable, crisis management system architecture using commercial technologies for shipboard, pierside, and land-based monitoring, and data dissemination to responders. This architecture will provide interoperability, integration with legacy systems, and built in reliability, performance and security. Users will benefit from context sensitive procedural reasoning and flexible displays that combine the vast amounts of data stored in data warehouses into information required by the response team. A sensor Interface Design Language will facilitate extensibility while knowledge dissemination, via a web-based architecture, will achieve a flexible system that provides coordination with multiple levels of responders at military, national, and local levels. ORINCON's system will contribute to homeland security objectives
