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EL SEGUNDO, CA - October 22, 2007
– The National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination
(NC4), a leader in situational awareness, incident
monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration,
today announced it was awarded a contract from the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enhance the Office
of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) information sharing
capabilities. NC4 will provide the Extranet Secure Portal
(ESP) service as the platform for the DHS Homeland Security
Information Network (HSIN) Intelligence Portal via its
secure application service provider model. The migration to
the ESP platform will enable DHS I&A to rapidly deploy a
proven operational capability to meet mission-critical
objectives. NC4 was selected because the extranet secure
portal service delivers existing functionality and security
that meets DHS I&A priority requirements for handling the
dissemination and collaboration of intelligence information
at the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) level. The
NC4 solution enables DHS to deploy this capability within
days rather than months or years.
The NC4 portal will provide DHS I&A with a trusted secure
platform for the rapid dissemination of intelligence data at
the CUI level to 10,000 users including representatives from
the DHS Intelligence Enterprise as well as a nationwide
community of State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector (SLTP)
customers, and Federal and International partners. The
portal will also be utilized to support State Fusion Centers
by providing a secure environment as well as a suite of core
tools for collaboration at the CUI level amongst
intelligence analysts nationwide.
“Due to the nature of its operations, DHS I&A interacts with
State, Local, and Tribal resources as well as other Federal
Agencies and the Private sector,” said Bill Donaldson,
Director of Government Programs, NC4. “As all of these
organizations operate on disparate networks, DHS I&A
required an extranet portal that could be configured to
support a ‘responsibility to provide’ information model as
well as provide for secure compartmented collaboration. The
NC4 secure portal service will provide the situational
readiness platform that will enable DHS I&A to enhance the
secure rapid dissemination of CUI data as well as provide a
secure environment for collaboration with Federal, State,
Local, and Tribal intelligence resources.”
Under the terms of the one-year contract with two option
years, NC4 will deliver, host, and manage the infrastructure
and security for the I&A secure portal. NC4 will establish
the information sharing portal structure to support and
maintain bi-directional communication among intelligence
professional entities. The contract is valued at a potential
$6.1 million over the three-year period.
About NC4
NC4, through its incident monitoring centers, improves
the Situational Awareness to both business and government
clients by providing real-time, global, 24/7 proactive
incident information and alerts. NC4 issues timely,
relevant, and personalized alerts covering incidents near an
organizations key locations that may impact life and safety,
physical assets, and continuity of operations. This includes
incidents such as transportation, severe weather, hazmat,
law enforcement, fire, terrorism, and other incidents that
have the potential to cause disruption.
Additionally, NC4 provides Situational Response through its
E Team offering, which provides sophisticated software and
planning tools to enable emergency managers to effectively
process the massive amounts of information generated during
a major event, crisis, or disaster. E Team’s Windows-based,
browser-accessible software has been used for project
management during events ranging from 9/11, multiple
Olympics, and political conventions to hurricanes and other
natural disasters.
NC4 also provides Secure Communications and Collaboration
through its ESP offerings. ESP is an application service
provider that provides government agencies and corporations
with a common platform for secure communication and
collaboration. ESP provides a thorough security solution for
diverse organizations to share Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU)
information through highly secure, compartmented,
web-accessible portals.
For more information, see
www.nc4.us
For More Information, contact: O’Keeffe &
Company, Inc. (703) 883-9000
info@nc4.us
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