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ABS Consulting Joins Veridian as They Feature "First
Responders Integrated Support System (FRISS) Test Bed"
at National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference
September 7, 2001
(Bethesda, MD --) FRISS,
an enterprise-wide information system designed for event/incident
emergency management, will be a sponsored technology test
bed at the 4th NIJ Public Safety Conference
being held September 17-19 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
FRISS, a product of Veridian, strengthens the capacity
of local government's emergency management agencies and
their ability to effectively plan, train for, respond to,
manage, and evaluate complex threats, natural disasters,
and other critical incident situations.
FRISS provides greater capabilities
for emergency managers and first responders in response
to a broad spectrum of public safety incidents with special
capabilities directed at chemical, radiological, and biological
accidents or acts of terrorism. FRISS significantly improves
the triage structure required to activate the appropriate
public safety response and recovery plans by integrating
into a common platform technologies that enhance the ability
to automatically identify, receive, analyze, track and
communicate information from a variety of sources.
Better-informed decision-makers
will be able to make timely decisions by automatically
acquiring, correlating, and integrating the enormous amounts
of information needed to adequately plan, train, evaluate,
and manage crisis incidents. A primary module of FRISS
is MIDAS-AT, developed by ABS Consulting. MIDAS-AT utilizes
time-dependent dispersion models along with multiple data
inputs, such as meteorological information and sensor readings,
to estimate impact over long distances and extended time
periods. Users can determine the potential impact of actual
hazardous material releases on street-level maps, create
what-if scenarios to evaluate emergency plans, and train
response teams using actual site conditions. The software
product is designed to quickly produce "real time" estimates
of plume location and intensity for immediate use by emergency
response organizations. MIDAS-AT displays the release effects
of industrial chemicals, chemical and biological agents,
and radiological isotopes at five-minute intervals as the
incident unfolds.
About Veridian
Veridian (www.veridian.com)
is one of the world's most experienced providers of trusted
enterprise networks, knowledge discovery solutions, and engineering
consulting services for mission critical systems. A private
company with annual revenues of $700 million, Veridian operates
in over 50 locations in the US and overseas and employs nearly
5,000 high technology professionals.
ABSG Consulting
Inc., marketing under ABS Consulting, (www.absconsulting.com)
provides rational engineering-based solutions that blend state-of-the-art
technology with practical loss-control measures and innovative
risk-transfer options. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ABS Consulting
is an affiliate of ABS, one of the world's largest providers of
classification services to the international marine and offshore
industries.
For more information contact:
Rebecca Rieansnider
Senior Marketing Communications Specialist - ABS Consulting
1-281-673-2948 | rrieansnider@absconsulting.com |
