| Deployment of sophisticated
homeland security systems at the federal, state and even the
municipal levels open new opportunities for simulation and training
and simulation companies. "Our overall objective is to
improve emergency management services for a community while
offering improved job satisfaction for first responders,"
said Marc Parent, CAE’s Group President, Simulation Products
and Military Training & Services. Traditionally the EMS
market has not been exposed to simulation for operations and
training. "We plan to develop a range of simulation-based
solutions that will support emergency management teams in planning,
testing, training, and deploying for response operations."
said Parent. (more...)
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Training solutions are being fielded with
first responders and at strategic levels of the homeland security
hierarchy, aiming to improve the quality and effectiveness of
decisions made at the various levels of command, and optimal
use and prioritization of available resources. Among the companies
demonstrating new simulators for homeland security, were CAE
which announced its 'Deploy' training system, designed to assist
decision-support with Emergency Management Service (EMS) organizations,
facilitating faster, more effective deployment of first responders,
such as police, fire departments, medical care, and NBCR to
better respond to emergencies and improve public safety and
security. The simulator integrates intelligent resource management,
traffic prediction, and simulation-based visualization tools
used for decision support. When integrated with existing operational
systems, CAE Deploy offers real-time team positioning data and
enhanced situational awareness. Using sophisticated scheduling,
optimization and prediction models developed by Actenum Corporation,
CAE Deploy will anticipate response times, monitor EMS team
workloads and break periods, and help enhance coverage. CAE
has worked closely with the EMS and first responder community
to develop the CAE Deploy solution, which includes commercial-off-the-shelf
(COTS) simulation software from Presagis, CAE’s COTS software
company.
Alion also presented an Emergency Command System-Training
and Exercising Tool (ECS-TET), supporting the Department of
Homeland Security methodology for training and exercising emergency
managers and other personnel at the county, state and national
level. Northrop Grumman demonstrated its suite of training simulation,
control, interface and visualization tools called ' The Emergency
Preparedness Federation' that offers comprehensive solutions
to help planners, strategists, emergency responders and post-disaster
recovery teams prepare for and handle emergency situations.
It is executed with the company's proprietary TouchTable, allowing
collaborative control and enhancing after-action review.
Elbit Systems introduced at I/ITSEC a new, multi-disciplinary
simulation system designed for training first responders and
emergency agencies. Elbit's Home-Land Security Simulation (HLS2)
presents trainees with a wide spectrum of scenarios, including
hazardous materials events, rescue operations in massive-destruction
situations, "mega-terror" and unconventional threat
events, border and crossing controls, air and seaport security,
strategic facility defense, accidents and natural disasters.
By training in virtual environments that replicate
actual occurrences, trainees practice different missions and
arrive on duty with sharper operational skills.
The simulation is based on a Synthetic Virtual Arena based on
geo-specific urban environment. It recreates urban area terrain
features such as streets, houses and electrical poles. It simulates
urban traffic, with humans, vehicles, traffic lights and junctions.
Also represented are realistic command, control and communications,
elements, combined to create virtual replications of the operational
arena and prepare trainees for real-life situations. The HLS2
incorporates a variety of advanced simulation models, including
artificial intelligence human behavior, population movement
and behavior characteristics.
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