Innovative Information Technologies

"ScenPro proposes to develop an Incident Response Information Support System (IRISS) application that will greatly improve on-site information management for large-scale incident response efforts. The improvement will be most measurable in HomelandSecurity incidents with mass casualties that involve multiple responders from different organizations.The IRISS will provide these improvements by combining information management technology from three areas:¿ A communications network that can be scaled and configured on demand to provide a communications resource to both expected and ad hoc responders¿ A set of role-specific user interfaces that provide appropriate, intuitive, and effective formats for data entry and information push given limited display capabilities and unfamiliar users¿ Advanced techniques for information retrieval, aggregation, and display for the following:o situational awarenesso critical resource managemento incident command decision support aidsScenPro will use its extensive expertise in incident response and the Scenario-based Engineering Process (SEP) to develop the IRISS application. SEP features a Knowledge Acquisition process to obtain and utilize information from subject matter experts.SEP also will provide a preliminary system architecture, which will be the basis for development of a fully functional prototype IRISS tool in a Phase II SBIR program. The proposed IRISS provides the ability