DoD Personnel Accountability For Responders (DPAR)

The proposed Direct-to-Phase II SBIR DoD Personnel Accountability for Responders (DPAR) effort leverages Civilian First Responder activities and efforts on other Phase I and Phase II activities involved with integrating advanced commercial technologies and capabilities of the System Definition, Inc. (SDI) Advanced Personnel Accountability Application (APAA) with the Air Force Common Operating Picture for Event Response Situational Awareness (COPERS) system to create modernized First Responder accountability solutions for Air Force and DoD. SDI’s innovative, state-of-the-art commercial APAA works with radio system resources and organization datasets to modernize incident personnel accountability activities to accurately and rapidly account for personnel at incidents. COPERS is an agile, scalable Air Force solution for an Event, Incident, and Emergency Response/Management common operating picture. This solution will expand current capabilities to encompass a wider device set. SDI’s current commercial efforts to modernize First Responder accountability capabilities are primarily limited to specific Motorola series radios (e.g., APX line of Fire-rated radios). Air Force First Responders employ a wide variety of devices; the need exists to identify ways to be “device agnostic”. The developed, innovative accountability capabilities should be able to leverage and work across disparate radios, PCs, tablets, and phones including FirstNet and ATAK-enabled devices.  This submittal addresses adding this agnostic device support to accountability and safety capabilities. AFRL, WP-AFB Fire Operations, WP-AFB Security Forces Squadron, and JBER 673d Communications Squadron are interested in having us extend previous SBIR efforts integrating APAA capabilities to broaden out to a wider range of Air Forces resources. Additionally, this solution seeks to standardize the accountability schema. Efforts to integrate key accountability data and functionality into higher-order situational awareness systems offer high value and utility to the Air Force community. Within SDI Civilian Fire efforts, we have exported key information (Mayday messages, rostering data) to external systems (e.g., FDNY incident command software). For our SBIR efforts, we prototyped migration of a variety of APAA functions into a representative Air Force COP. This proposal encompasses defining a “universal specification” to establish a common First Responder accountability data specification supporting broader COP integration. The three main objectives of this proposed activity include the following: Implement a mobile application software utility to support Air Force accountability capabilities on disparate devices. Implement means to leverage additional Air Force inventory radio devices in support of Air Force accountability capabilities. Develop/define a universal specification for interoperability/integration of accountability data and functionality into situational awareness systems/COP systems.