Plan to join us at our Sixth Annual User’s Conference, being held April 26-29 in Chicago, Illinois.
Our User’s Conference offers valuable information on how to make the most of your NC4 solutions, and provides opportunities to meet with the NC4 team and exchange ideas with other NC4 customers.
NC4 Quarterly Conference Call for ESA Customers
July 28, 2010 10am PDT / 1pm EDT
NC4’s President, Jim Montagnino, invites all ESA customers to attend quarterly one-hour conference calls. For information on how to attend, please email info@nc4.us
George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Booth #312
In a recovering economy, the role of travel managers will be more important than ever. Containing costs, maximizing ROI, measuring effectiveness, managing demand - these are the tools businesses will use to create success and drive value in the "new normal." The 2010 NBTA International Convention & Exposition highlights the newest industry tools and latest trends for corporate travel professionals.
NC4 Quarterly Conference Call for E Team Customers
September 16, 2010 11am PDT / 2pm EDT
NC4’s President, Jim Montagnino, invites all E Team customers to attend quarterly one-hour conference calls. For information on how to attend, please email ETeamFeedback@nc4.us
NC4 announced today the Universal Console™ (UC) - a foundation technology that enables cloud computing users to access and combine geo-spatial data from NOAA, NASA, USGS and numerous other sources.
NC4 has recruited Steve Lindeman to lead its newly formed Public Sector Business Unit. In his new position, Steve will sharpen NC4’s public sector customer focus, as well as expand NC4’s recognized leadership position in providing Federal, state and local governments and tribes Situational Readiness solutions. Steve brings over 20 years of experience in solutions selling, sales engineering and systems integration.
NC4 announced general availability of its revolutionary incident management system, R9. The capabilities within R9 far surpass prior E Team generations and outperform the competitors’ crisis management applications. NC4 has dedicated over two years of research, development, testing and customer involvement to its R9 release, to bring users even more sophisticated incident management functionality, while keeping the application flexible and easy to use. The R9 framework enables organizations to use as little or as much of the system’s robust capabilities as needed, and with its new Custom Forms feature, organization’s can easily tailor R9 to meet their needs. R9 is the only incident management solution available in the market that gives organizations an easy-to-customize solution in a COTS product
NC4 announced the industry’s first Homeland Security Cloud™ (HSC) solution. The NC4 HSC solution supports the communities securing our nation by enabling them with unmatched applications for situational awareness, emergency management, law enforcement and secure communication and collaboration. The technological foundation and applications of the NC4 Homeland Security Cloud™ have been proven in actual operation by more than 80,000 discerning federal, state and local users who see application and data security as paramount.
NC4 announced today a partnership with frevvo, who specializes in empowering businesses to create rich, dynamic Internet applications. This joint partnership will expand the capabilities of NC4’s emergency management software and collaboration platform to include the ability to generate customized dynamic web-based forms to better support customers’ diverse needs.
LoJack Supply Chain Integrity, developers of a first-of-its-kind, integrated solution that reduces and manages risk throughout the supply chain, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with NC4, the leader in situational awareness tools that empower government and businesses with accurate, timely and secure information to manage uncertainty in the supply chain. The partnership integrates NC4’s critical incident monitoring data into LoJack Supply Chain Integrity’s SC-ISAC to deliver powerful real-time information about potential risks in the supply chain.
NC4 today announced ActivTravel™, NC4’s travel risk management offering that combines intelligence on global all-hazards incidents with detailed employee travel data, to heighten an organization’s overall situational awareness and readiness to respond to risks. ActivTravel is the result of a successful technological integration of NC4’s External Situational Awareness (ESA) service with TranSecur’s Global Security Information (GSI) service and Traveler Management Service.
NC4 today announced its agreement to acquire TranSecur, the nation’s oldest continually operated provider of global security information and industry-leader in travel risk management. The acquisition will strengthen NC4’s position as the leading provider of accurate, timely and secure information.
NC4 today announced participation as a first adopter in the Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) program. UICDS is a “middleware foundation” that will enable a broad array of technology vendors to share emergency management information across jurisdictions. UICDS is sponsored by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and is being executed through a contract with prime contractor Science Applications International Corporation.
NC4 today announced a partnership with Everbridge (formerly 3n Global), the world’s recognized leader in incident notification systems. The combination of NC4’s External Situational Awareness (ESA) incident monitoring service with Everbridge’s powerful mass notification solution, Aware, provides organizations the
tools to rapidly and reliably communicate critical information enterprise-wide.
NC4 today announced their ongoing support of open standards for the secure exchange of information. NC4’s commitment to open-standards was reaffirmed at last months Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Solutions Series. NC4 participated in the FEMA Disaster Management Program’s Open Platform for Emergency Networks (DM-OPEN) demonstration. NC4’s Situational Response E Team solution directly accessed the DM-OPEN non-proprietary interoperability foundation to communicate key incident information with multiple, diverse systems using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
NC4 announced today a significant weather reporting enhancement to its External Situational Awareness Solution (ESA). The new enhancement, ActivWeather, is a meteorological reporting tool which integrates real-time weather data to provide detailed, customized, and comprehensive alerts that further enhance situational awareness.
The City of Tampa, Florida's disaster-preparedness team is using Crystal Reports® software, Crystal Reports® Server software and Xcelsius® software, along with an information technology (IT) framework from Situational Readiness solutions provider NC4, to gain unified insight across the many agencies and geographic branches that support its centralized Emergency Operations Center (EOC). With real-time insight, the City of Tampa has improved its decision-making processes and can respond more effectively to help address different situations, ultimately helping to promote better protection for the public during major events like Super Bowl XLIII, large city-wide parades, hurricane season and presidential visits.
The University of North Texas unveiled its Emergency Operations Center, a hands-on learning lab that will allow students and community organizations to practice responding to large-scale disasters, with an open house on Feb. 18 (Wednesday). The state-of-the-art facility was made possible by support from local facilities maintenance supply distributor Grainger and Situational Readiness solution provider NC4.
The Missouri Department of Public Safety (DPS) has implemented the latest E Team software to enhance information sharing and resource tracking statewide. Fully deployed just before the severe flooding across the state in March, E Team allowed disparate groups from all levels of government, as well as the private sector and non-governmental organizations, to quickly coordinate efforts throughout the state. With the help of E Team, Missouri was able to prepare for, and respond to, critical incidents during this presidentially-declared disaster, while also saving lives and mitigating damage.
The E Team emergency management solution has several new features that will assist government agencies in preparing for the upcoming hurricane season. The new features include External Situational Awareness (ESA) Incident Monitor (EIM), a tool that tracks incidents in real time; a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) Interface, a standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) for application integration with E Team; and E Team Live, which gathers incident information from Web sites, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s, and automatically imports the data into the E Team application. Each new feature supplies critical capabilities that can assist agencies in hurricane season preparedness and response.
The Honorable Joel Bagnal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, will be the keynote speaker for NC4's Fourth Annual Readiness Conference April 21-23 at The Westin Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.
“We are proud to have the Honorable Joel Bagnal as the keynote speaker for our Readiness Conference,” said Jim Montagnino, president, NC4. “Seasoned in homeland security, counterterrorism, as well as incident management and response, his extensive experience will resonate with, and provide valuable insight to, our customer attendees.”
The Charlotte Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) has implemented nine standalone E Team systems to enhance emergency preparedness throughout the region. This E Team deployment allows public safety agencies within five counties and two cities in North Carolina, as well as one county in South Carolina, to easily coordinate efforts across state lines to respond to critical incidents and prepare for planned events.
Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties plan to deploy E Team to enhance emergency preparedness throughout the Tampa Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI). An information-sharing tool, E Team empowers emergency managers in the region to work together in preparation for, and response to, critical incidents, as well as planned and unplanned events.
Dallas County’s Office of Security and Emergency Management, in conjunction with the Dallas Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) has deployed E Team to enhance emergency preparedness throughout the region. This deployment allows counties and jurisdictions within the UASI to extend their crisis management capabilities and ensures information-sharing among Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs) throughout North Central Texas.
NC4 today announced E Team Connect – an easy to use, affordable incident management system for small agencies that want control over their own system. E Team Connect supports the management of localized, all-hazard emergency events and incidents, and empowers agencies to share information with other agencies in surrounding jurisdictions during an area-wide crisis.
NC4 was awarded a contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enhance the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) information sharing capabilities and will provide the Extranet Secure Portal (ESP) service as the platform for the DHS Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Intelligence Portal via its secure application service provider model.
With terrorism concerns on par with the first Super Bowl following 9/11 and the President’s State of the Union address, NC4, the leader in Situational Readiness Solutions, put its National Incident Monitoring Centers and its Situational Response solution, E Team into duty in Miami for Super Bowl XLI.
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and NC4 are pleased to announce a new Program and Committee targeted at reducing operational risk by focusing on situational readiness issues related to physical security and business continuity.
E Team incident management software will enable multiple agencies to work together to ensure safety and security before, during and after the big game.
A sound investment in information technology services that provide pin-pointed intelligence where you need it can improve an organization’s peripheral vision, giving companies a competitive advantage.
This case study examines how Navistar's corporate security team protects its network of manufacturing facilities, warehouses and sales offices in 90 countries worldwide.
Lojack Supply Chain Integrity has formed a strategic partnership with NC4 to provide an even depth of vital, real-time information to Lojack SCI customers. LoJack SCI will integrate NC4’s External Situational Awareness (ESA) incident monitoring service into its SC-ISAC, the only government-sanctioned Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
Now is the perfect time to look at technologies with multiple uses that can bring in the benefits of risk mitigation and safety for employees and operations while leaving your resources to focus on other apsects of the business.
AAA has two offices near the wildfires, one in downtown Santa Barbara and the other less than 30 miles away in Ventura, Calif. Even with the fires being nearly 80 percent contained, AAA continues to monitor its status. In addition to information from local news outlets, they receive regular updates from NC4 about the location and movement of the fires as well as evacuation status and other pertinent information.
Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, plans were put into place to develop a way to share information among agencies at the local, state and federal levels. Several law enforcement agencies are using E Team to exchange information on terrorism tips and leads.
Emergency managers are looking to technology to maintain awareness of incidents, collaborate across jurisdictional boundaries and facilitate a more informed decision- making process.
Tampa officials used NC4's E Team to enable responders in the field to send reports back to Tampa's multi-agency command post. In addition, Crystal Reports was used to create detailed incident action plans from information pulled from the E Team system.
NC4 issued a private report to its clients discussing the steps police are taking to ensure the safety of President-elect Obama and the millions of people expected to attend his Inauguration. The report reveals that local and federal police plan to use more than 5,000 security cameras to look for suspicious activity in D.C.
Security officials have also designed a loudspeaker system along the parade route and on the National Mall to communicate to the large Inauguration crowds should a large-scale disaster situation necessitate a mass evacuation of downtown D.C.
The depth of Cisco's continuity plan reflects how critical risk management is to the $38 billion company, making it one of the growing lineup of shippers that are taking action in an era in which globalization has exposed supply chains to risks in remote parts of the world. Labor disruptions, terror attacks, natural disasters and even fast-spreading disease are increasingly intruding into the basics of logistics planning as more companies believe their survival could be at stake. An alert from NC4 on the Sichuan earthquake triggered the response team at Cisco that sent plans into motion there as the company determined the scale of the earthquake and how it might hit suppliers.
New tools are enabling planners to test the consequences of events without having to endure the disruption. “The key to successful emergency management really is situational awareness.” said Fred LaMontagne, fire chief and director of the emergency management agency for the city of Portland, Maine.
That means, he continued, awareness of factors that could bring about change in the local community or environment. The city accomplishes this through the use of E Team and ESA (External Situational Awareness), two offerings from NC4 of El Segundo, Calif. These work together to provide alerts and a framework for communicating information before, during and after an incident.
Many vendors have adopted the open-source Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for transmitting emergency messages. “The CAP is evolving and has become more popular,” said Jim Montagnino. “We were one of the first adopters of CAP.”
NC4's National Incident Monitoring Center(s) and secure communications portal CyberCop helped provide the staff of the Denver Office of Emergency Management Operations Center with the information they needed to help protect the thousands of spectators, media, law enforcement and government officials at the convention.
“Typically, when people talk about interoperability, people think radio. And those are important,” said Robie Robinson, director of security and emergency management for Dallas County, Texas. However, there are other ways to share pertinent information before or during a disaster.
Jim Montagnino, chief executive, said the nation’s heightened security requires emergency managers to quickly gain access to information across jurisdiction lines.
Dallas County's Office of Security and Emergency Management, in conjunction with the Dallas Urban Area Security Initiative, added the E Team solution from NC4 to enable multiple counties and jurisdictions within the UASI to improve emergency response capabilities and speed the flow of data between offices.
Determining a need for, and designing and placing an effective Emergency Operations Center (EOC) into operation can be a daunting task. As corporate awareness for sound business continuity plans grow, quite often those same corporations determine a need for an EOC — a necessary component to a sound business continuity plan for most mid-to-large size corporations, hospitals, colleges and universities.
Testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration on Private Sector Preparedness
Business Continuity professionals typically think about government in the last sections of a continuity plan. Government can be helpful in all aspects of continuity planning. This article reviews the standard professional practices and comments on how government may be helpful.
