PlanGraphics Awarded Homeland Security Interoperability Grant.FRANKFORT, Ky. -- PlanGraphics, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PGRA PGRA Plant Growth Regulator Abstracts (database) ) has been awarded a grant to develop an Internet-enabled emergency response system for the Kentucky Chemical Stockpile stock·pile n. A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained. tr.v. stock·piled, stock·pil·ing, stock·piles To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use. Preparedness Program (CSEPP CSEPP Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (FEMA) ) by the Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation and the Public Safety and Security Institute for Technology at Eastern Kentucky University's Justice and Safety Center. PlanGraphics' Spatial Templates for Emergency Preparedness (STEPs) methodology and software tools will be used to produce a prototype interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. Internet portal for CSEPP over a 10-month period. Development of the emergency preparedness and response interoperability solution is considered to be a foundational activity that will give Kentucky CSEPP and its federal and U.S. Army agency and local government partners immediate access to a large range of mission-critical data and multiple applications needed to improve planning and enhance incident response by all CSEPP partners. The prototype project will demonstrate both the procedures for designing an interoperability solution and the efficacy of the STEPs enterprise portal See corporate portal. architecture and software. It will produce an affordable software product that can be deployed at a full-scale level following prototype completion to make accurate information immediately accessible and to better inform decision-making by presenting the information in a format that is easy to understand and use. PlanGraphics, founded in 1979, is a full life-cycle systems integration and implementation firm providing a broad range of services in the design and implementation of information technology in the public and commercial sectors. PlanGraphics' experience with spatial information systems and e-services capabilities provides a critical discriminator dis·crim·i·na·tor n. 1. One that discriminates. 2. Electronics A device that converts a property of an input signal, such as frequency or phase, into an amplitude variation, depending on how the signal differs from a among other IT consulting and integration firms. PlanGraphics has headquarters in Frankfort, Ky., and regional offices in Maryland, Colorado and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . On the Web: www.plangraphics.com. |
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