Time to Rethink Costs of Major Programs? One system at a time.

The following article was featured in a local paper.

Supervisors rethink money approved radio for upgrades

"“The Motorola program and price are extremely high for a public-safety radio,” said Lt. Col. Scott Padgett, a Loudoun resident who works for IBM. He said for $36.7 million, a Midwestern state could buy an entire public-safety radio system."

The article went on to add how much could potentially be saved.

"Sarantos said if the county reissued bids, it could save as much as $10 million. “That's one elementary school,” he added."

Source: Loudoun Times

SOA Key To "Connecting" Emergency Management Solutions.

The following picture highlights a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), as described in the presentation. Also included are links to some of the services that were discussed.

Sahana
Open Source System

ESRI
Geo Spatial and Situtional Awareness

KITS
Radio Connect

CISCO
Network Services

Amatra
Mass Alert Notification

Motorola
Radio and System Technologies

VirtualAgility
Planning and Preparedness

NC4 - The National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination
Incident Management

ThoughtWeb
Decision Support

SafePlans
School Planning

Archaio
3D Digital Building

and additional

IBM
Public Safety and Security Solutions