The National Information Sharing Consortium (NISC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responders Group (FRG) will co-host a webinar on April 17 titled, Mutual Aid: Tools and Technologies to Discover, Request, Acquire, and Track Resources.

Date & Time:

Thursday, April 17, 2014

1PM EDT/10AM PDT

Presenters: 

• Doug Eades, System Integration Manager, Kentucky Emergency Management
• Tommy Hicks, Assistant Executive Director, International Association of Fire Chiefs
• Doc Lumpkins/Rebecca Harned, National Integration Center, Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Carol Walton, Chair of EMAC Executive Task Force, EMAC National Coordinating State, and Operations Branch Manager at Arkansas Department of Emergency Management 
• Beth Spencer, Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) Project Manager, National Wildfire Coordination Group, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture

Pre-registration is not required. Click this link to access the webinar: https://share.dhs.gov/capacitybuildingseries

This event will prepare participants to:

• Provide an overview of existing national mutual aid coordination underway and available resource management tools that can be integrated with mutual aid technologies.
• Explain the role, functionalities and user communities of several selected systems: EMAC OS, MASS, Mutual Aid Net, ROSS, and how to access and use these capabilities
• Explain the use of the RTLT web services API and how to use the MRP data model
• Explain the purpose and functionality of the Mission Explorer/Mission Ready Package tool and how it is used to discover planned missions and MRPs