thinking
of using first responder software for your public
safety and emergency management 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. 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: RTMW
Software System
Setup and Administration Hardware
(Hosted server environment includes Technical Support
and Operator Support) Training
User
Documentation
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 ‘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 through
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 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
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