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Precision Information Environment for Collaborative Emergency Support (PIECES)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Branch: N/A
Contract: N10PC20202
Agency Tracking Number: 1011078
Amount: $99,737.08
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: H-SB010.1-003
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-05-10
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2011-11-30
Small Business Information
625 MOUNT AUBURN ST
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
United States
DUNS: 115243701
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Ryan Kilgore
 (617) 491-3474
 rkilgore@cra.com
Business Contact
 Ninos Hanna
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: nhanna@cra.com
Research Institution
N/A
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.

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