1. Mutual Aid Outcomes and Available Tools
Don McGarry
ArdentMC support to FRG

2. Outcomes and Observations
Numerous stakeholders across the Federal / State / Local / Industry came together to identify current capabilities / gaps regarding the exchange of Mutual Aid information
While there are policy / governance challenges, there are technical gaps that can begin to be addressed as well
A standards-based model and toolsuite (FRESH Router / Vortex) were employed to begin to bridge interoperability challenges
All participants left the event with a desire / plan to integrate systems utilizing open standards moving forward
Recommended approach: Simple, Efficient, Easy to Implement
Solve the 80% Solution First

3. What is FRESH / Vortex?
FRESH – Open source message router sponsored by DHS S&T
Vortex – Open cloud-based platform based on FRESH with private enhancements (Multi-tenant, Secure, Highly-Available, Fault-Tolerant)
Designed to be ‘transparent’ to end-user – just get better data / tools

4. What Does it (will it) Do?
Share information using open standards:
OASIS EDXL
NIEM EMLC
OGC WMS / WFS / STAPI
Visualize data:
ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise
GeoServer / Leaflets Open Source Dashboard
Analytics Dashboard /
Collaborate in real-time:
Cross-Platform Map Markup
Chat
Analytics / Alarms / Alerting
Not be a silo for your data, scale to support needs, integrate with your existing tools & technologies

5. How Can I Get Involved Current API and Swagger documentation available
Get engaged in the mutual aid follow-up
Open source release coming soon:
Come speak with a team member
Check out some of our ‘roving’ demos
Stay tuned for the emerging tech and IoT talk

6. Bringing Emerging Tech and IoT to Resource Management
Don McGarry
ArdentMC support to FRG

7. NGFR Recap
Goal: Make Responders better Protected, Connected, Fully Aware:
Protected: PPE, Cyber
Connected: Incident Area Networking, Wide-Area Networking
Fully Aware – Information Sharing and Situational Awareness
Technology Approach:
Architecture-Centric Approach – DHS focuses on standards / architecture, industry builds capabilities that are market-driven
Capabilities are modular, customizable, extensible – but all work together
Technology Focus Areas
Mobility – Use of Smart Devices, HUD, UAS
Internet of Things – Inexpensive connected devices that are body-worn / deployable
Connected Sensing – From Commercial IoT to Scientific-Grade
Enhanced Data Connectivity – Layered capabilities that supplement Commercial LTE

8. What’s a Spiral?
FRG adopted an agile approach to developing, testing, refining exemplar capabilities for NGFR – Spiral Development
Build, Integrate, Test, Demonstrate – at six month intervals

9. Tech Breakout Watchtower mobile app (Android, iOS) Summary:
20+ COTS, GOTS and OSS technologies integrated using standards at all levels
User feedback, formal testing and field evaluation of NGFR technologies, requirements and architecture
All fully compatible with FRESH / Vortex using EDXL, NIEM, OGC
Watchtower mobile app (Android, iOS)
Resource tracking
GIS visualization
Field / Situation reporting
Collaboration / Alerting

10. IoT Capabilities
Pinpoint tracker – Sub $100 solution for real-time asset tracking
‘Set and forget’ capability
Ability to share to / from formal AvL systems
Field-deployable for ~24 hours w/o charging
Supports additional sensors
Sensor integration (Hexoskin, POC patch, Zephyr HR Monitor, Grove)
Emerging IoT Sensing capabilities
Tracks personnel health / safety
On-body / deployable environmental hazard monitoring
Uses new OGC IoT Standards

11. Video / Data Capabilities
Video datacasting - Live streaming of video and other data using public television spectrum
Band Class 14 LTE – Deployed / tested public safety band LTE capabilities to simulate FirstNET
UAS Video Streaming – Integration of COTS UAS into NGFR architecture
CAD / GIS Integration – Integration of legacy data sources and enterprise GIS capabilities
All capabilities still in use after event