SAIC’s Public Safety Integration Center
Prevent, Prepare, Respond, Recover
The Public Safety Integration Center (PSIC) is a laboratory, test bed, and prototypedemonstration center established by Science Applications International Corporation(SAIC) in cooperation with more than 75 other companies that are suppliers of technologies and solutions applicable to homeland security. The PSIC is dedicated tobeing a national center for the development of interoperable homeland securitysolutions to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from all types of natural,technological, and terrorist events.The key to successful homeland security is not technology alone; rather, it is theintegration, interoperability, and physical and intellectual networking that make usmore secure.The PSIC is the means by which integration, interoperability, and networking areunderstood, designed, negotiated, implemented, trained, exercised, and standardized.In this regard, PSIC is the premier example of SAIC’s capabilities in system integrationand a model for the nation.The PSIC supports the nationalstrategy for homeland security bybringing together public safetysolutions for municipal, county,state, and federal agencies, themilitary and corporations with afocus on prevention, detection,alerting, protection, response,and recovery. The PSIC includesa model Emergency OperationsCenter and Mobile CommandVehicle plus a series of technology laboratories. Thesensor, geospatial, wireless,networking, and biometric labsare the keys to interoperable technologies for homeland security.
Homeland Security and FirstResponder Best Practices forTechnology Solutions
Real-World Simulations of Homeland Security Scenarios
Come to the Public Safety Integration Center (PSIC) and watch interoperability in action.Inside the PSIC Emergency OperationsCenter (EOC) and Mobile Command Vehiclesimulators, a demonstration unfoldsproviding insight into the complextechnologies and solutions required tomanage an incident. Demonstrations arebuilt around the National Planning Scenariosand illustrate the Universal Task List actionsdescribed by the National IncidentManagement System (NIMS). A variety of scenarios incorporate appropriate homelandsecurity solutions that include collaboration,access control and intruder detection,intelligence and surveillance, hazardmodeling and consequence assessment,incident management (from first responder computer-aided dispatch to nationalcoordination), and interoperable publicsafety communication. The PSIC simulatesa succession of emergency incidentcommand locations that range from on-scene command posts to local and stateEOCs to military and federal governmentcommand centers.
"In the PSIC, you've done thingsothers aren't doing. Your focuson the 'lines' in a system designflowchart - integration ratherthan the products andtechnologies alone - shows thecreativity and thoughtleadership that is so neededtoday in both homeland securityand defense."
Major General Dale Meyerrose
U.S. Northern Command
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