Crossflo and Memex Announce Teaming Plan to Provide Information Sharing and Analysis.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Crossflo Systems, Inc. and Memex, Inc. announced today their intent to jointly pursue opportunities to provide information sharing and analysis capabilities to law enforcement and homeland security agencies. The two companies completed work in November on the Regional Information Sharing and Analysis (RISA) project that enables the Unified Port of San Diego The Port of San Diego is a self-supporting public benefit corporation established in 1963 by an act of the California State Legislature. The Port Act says that the policy of the State of California is to develop the harbors and ports of the State for multiple uses that benefit all , Los Angeles Port Police The Los Angeles Port Police is a specialized law enforcement agency at the Port of Los Angeles, under the control of the Los Angeles Harbor Department (WorldPort LA). and the Los Angeles County Sheriff to share data with the San Diego Harbor Police The San Diego Harbor Police Department is the law enforcement agency of the Port of San Diego. The San Diego Harbor Police is the premier police presence in San Diego Bay, the San Diego International Airport (also known as Lindbergh Field), and on all Tidelands around the bay. Department (HPD HPD Honolulu Police Department (Honolulu County, Island of Oahu) HPD Housing Preservation and Development HPD Housing Preservation and Development (New York City Department) ). The RISA project represents the most comprehensive regional data integration and analysis initiative to date and is setting the standard for the way maritime and law enforcement information is shared across jurisdictions. "Crossflo and Memex have provided a crucial contribution to port security by deploying a secure and scalable system of information sharing and analysis among law enforcement, first responders and other homeland security agencies," said Betty Kelepecz, chief of police for San Diego Harbor Police at the time of installation. RISA was partially underwritten by the San Diego-based Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies (CCAT CCAT Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (Humboldt State University; Arcata, CA) CCAT Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope CCAT Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test CCAT Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal ), a federally funded agency that supports selected Homeland Security technology initiatives. RISA is the first project to deploy a regional, interagency data-sharing program using the recently mandated Global Justice XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Data Model (GJXDM GJXDM Global Justice XML Data Model ) standard. Crossflo selected Memex to provide a powerful intelligence system to record and analyze data that was accessed from a variety of sources. The project was completed in less than 90 days. The Memex intelligence solution is used by law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). worldwide for the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of intelligence gathered by a network of enforcement officers. "Combining our superior analytical and intelligence software with the power of Crossflo's DataExchange data-sharing platform offers a critically important answer to the dilemma faced by agencies with a need to rapidly gather and evaluate information from diverse sources," said Robert Kim Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Memex, Inc. "Together, Crossflo and Memex have succeeded in demonstrating a powerful technology to detect and prevent criminal or terrorist behavior. As importantly, this represents a means for a wide variety of law enforcement and anti-terrorist agencies to immediately share and analyze vital information without surrendering control of their data or having to make significant changes in their normal operations," noted Renney Senn, chief executive officer and president of Crossflo. About Memex Memex, Inc. is the leading worldwide provider of intelligence management and analysis solutions for law enforcement, military intelligence and commercial organizations - helping to enhance public safety and improve intelligence processes. Since 1979 Memex has been delivering innovative technology solutions and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services around the world. More than 500 commercial and intelligence organizations count on Memex to foster enhanced, intelligence-led operations, with significant improvements to information quality and operational efficiencies. For more information, visit www.memex.com. About Crossflo Crossflo Systems, Inc. is the creator of Crossflo DataExchange(TM), a software data sharing platform for mission-critical information systems used by law enforcement, homeland security and defense, and intelligence agencies. Using standards-based technologies, Crossflo's software and services enable agencies at all levels to rapidly deploy a scalable means of data exchange for disparate databases on multiple platforms while maintaining complete control of their data sources. The company partners with industry leaders to help Federal, state and local agencies meet urgent criminal justice and anti-terrorism objectives. In 2004, Crossflo installed the first interagency data sharing initiative incorporating the Global Justice XML Standard, the data standard recently mandated by the Department of Justice. Founded in 2002, Crossflo is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego. For more information, visit www.crossflo.com. |
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