Lockstep’s Stephen Wilson explains how his company will implement a prototype authenticated smart-phone technology to verify the credentials of emergency responders in the field. This will speed up response times dramatically. [Read more...]
CCICADA’s new credentialing verification project will speed responses to natural and manmade disasters by developing a smart-phone technology enabling incident managers to instantly and safely verify the identities and credentials of first responders. [Read more...]
Satellite view of Hurricane Sandy taken by the Goddard Space Center October 2012. Gathering data about a disaster shortly after it happens can greatly assist planners in [Read more...]
Admiral Paul F. Zukunft (center), US Coast Guard Commandant, and Dr. Matthew Clark (right), Director, DHS Office of University Programs, listen as CCICADA Director Fred [Read more...]
The CCICADA Center at Rutgers University is pleased to announce a follow-up to last year’s highly successful Workshop on S&T Innovations in Hurricane Sandy Research [Read more...]
From the CCICADA Newsletter, May-June 2013 issue Notes from the Director October 29, 2012. Those of us in New Jersey, our neighboring states and the full stretch of the [Read more...]
An overwhelming majority of the emergency response efforts addressed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency involve flood related issues. Therefore, understanding flood [Read more...]
Overview CCICADA is involved in several projects in partnership with FEMA Region II (which covers NJ, NY, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). CCICADA research and methods [Read more...]