Thinking of using first responder software for your public safety
and homeland security exercise?
Will you be dealing with the threat of a mass casualty situation? Possibly a
Hurricane disaster, or Pandemic outbreak, or even a dirty bomb, or what about a
chemical spill disaster? Could a Medical Triage and Casualty Tracking Solution
be useful for your exercise?
AMITA can help you prepare and use RTMW in a simple or complex exercise with
operators in many locations and with many scenarios. We can help with
definition or Mission Scenario Execution tasks using RTMW to make your exercise
run smoothly and to ensure that your exercise goals can be met with RTMW. Our
Incident Command expertise can help you setup the Scenario Inputs (SI’s) for
your exercise. Our Consultants will work with you to define your exercise
and review the exercise goals to ensure useful results and effective evaluation
review.
We can supply you with all or some of the following items:
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RTMW Software
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System Setup and Administration
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Hardware (Hosted server environment includes Technical Support and Operator
Support)
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Training
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User Documentation
Past Exercises Supported
Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) 2006
CWID is an annual event held by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to test and
evaluate new technologies that could improve information exchange among
agencies. At CWID 2006, exercises were conducted in over 25 sites
internationally.
RTMW was demonstrated in three US sites (San Diego, Colorado Springs, Dahlgren)
as well as in Lillehammer, Norway. The system was tested under intensive
international scrutiny and was proven to be extraordinarily effective against a
thorough sequence of homeland security disaster exercises, including hurricane,
pandemic, terrorist attack and dirty bomb scenarios.This was demonstrated by
the fact that RTMW made the list of top 10 performers (out of ? Participants)
or ‘U.S. CWID IT Standouts’ in the CWID assessment report.
RTMW received some very positive comments from users during the exercise:
"Even as a lay person being introduced to RTMW, I feel I could understand this
system with no problems. I really like it."
"The system walks you thru very easily."
"It worked perfectly and it is very user friendly."
"There are so many features to the program that I can not say what one I like
the most. I do like the fact that it is easy to use."
"This is a tool that could help at all levels of command and control, and in the
treatment and tracking of casualties during all hazard events."
"This needs to be explored further for potential employment in DOD and
interagency use."
The RTMW excerpt from the CWID 2006 Final Report Can be found at the following
URL:
http://www.cwid.js.mil/public/CWID06FR/htmlfiles/552war.html.
Grey Bruce Health Unit exercise, October 2006
The Grey Bruce Health Unit (GBHU) is the public health authority for Grey and
Bruce counties of south-western Ontario. The unit frequently conducts emergency
preparedness exercises.
In October 2006, GBHU conducted an exercise simulating the evacuation of staff
and visiting school children from the nearby Bruce Nuclear Generating Station.
The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is the largest nuclear facility in Canada
in terms of output and also one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world.
GBHU used RTMW to assist with the exercise.
The GBHU staff praised RTMW:
"Taking the system to the exercise was helpful for thinking out the logistics
etc. Thanks for the opportunity." Susan Shular, Grey Bruce Health Unit, Owen
Sound, Ontario, Canada
"The exercise went quite well. The system is pretty easy to teach others as
needed. I had two other nurses with me and I showed them the system in the
morning and they were able to do the inputting quite nicely." Susan Shular,
Grey Bruce Health Unit, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
"... the system would be useful for an 'in the field' triage and tracking tool
for a mass casualty incident or widespread relocation event such as natural
disaster (Katrina comes to mind or 9-11 etc.)." Dr. Hazel Lynn, Medical Officer
of Health, Grey Bruce Health Unit, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
