RiskWatch and Priority 5 receive contract

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- RiskWatch and Priority 5 have been contracted to create a touch-screen system for disaster management for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Under the contract, RiskWatch and Priority 5 will create a prototype of the touch-screen visualization technology, Knowledge Display and Aggregation System. KDAS is capable of identifying key structures including the availability and location of police stations, government industrial bases, hospitals and power stations, among others.

Company officials say the system also creates real-time decision support by integrating the RiskWatch data into asset inventories.

RiskWatch and Priority 5 say the solution involves the critical infrastructure modeling system framework for infrastructure interdependency modeling and analysis developed by Idaho National Laboratory and Priority 5's touch-assisted command-and-control technology. The data from both proprietary and public domain databases can be displayed in the system to realistically model national emergencies, whether real or hypothetical.

"TACCS provides RiskWatch users with a way to perform near real-time updates to readiness assessments as conditions change," said Caroline Hamilton, president and chief executive officer of RiskWatch. "The hands-on graphical interface combined with the overlay of actual asset data, gives emergency planners and first responders an incredible tool to understand the progression and recovery from any event."