City of Ottawa to receive CAE’s integrated emergency management system

CAE has been awarded a contract by the City of Ottawa Office of Emergency Management to provide an emergency management information system.

Under the contract, CAE will provide integrated emergency management system to improve multi-agency collaboration and enhance effective decision-making during emergency incidents for City of Ottawa.

CAE Defence and Security group president Gene Colabatistto said, "This project for the City of Ottawa is a great example of how CAE can leverage its systems integration expertise to bring together "best of breed" software tools and service delivery capabilities to create an integrated solution that can help our clients to plan, prepare and respond to emergency incidents."

In order to create an emergency management information system to enhance information sharing and provide more timely information, CAE will integrate the WebEOC incident management system from Intermedix with the Amika Mobile’s AMS critical and emergency communication system.

CAE’s Integrated Enterprise Solutions group will serve as the prime contractor as well as systems integrator to provide the emergency management information system.

In addition to providing training to the City of Ottawa’s emergency response professionals, the company will deliver software support for the system over the next three years, as part of the contract.

The emergency management information system has been designed to enable the reporting, tracking and sharing of critical information in order to support decision-making throughout all phases of emergency management such as prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

The system will link and can enhance information sharing between the City of Ottawa’s Emergency Operations Centre, Service Command Centre, and other emergency response agencies.