From: Information Sharing Environment (ISE.gov)
Posted by ISE Bloggers
The National Capital Region (NCR) is a collection of sovereign jurisdictions, including cities, counties, states and the District of Columbia. As regional locales go, the NCR is a fairly complicated one. It encompasses not only Washington, D.C., but Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland; Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, and Price William counties in Virginia.
The NCR houses all 3 branches of the Federal Government, 271 federal departments and agencies, and more than 340,000 American federal workers. The NCR is also home to more than 2,000 political, social, and humanitarian non-profit organizations. Moreover, the NCR receives more than 20 million tourists each year and some of the most important symbols of national sovereignty and democratic heritage stand within the NCR’s boundaries. These attributes both heighten the threat and raise the consequences to the Region in the instance of manmade incidents. An incident caused by any hazard could result in catastrophic human, political, and economic harm to the NCR and the Nation as a whole. While the NCR is not an operational entity because emergency response is a local function, the NCR focuses efforts on regional collaboration between the region’s homeland security partners to achieve a “safe and secure National Capital Region.”
To ensure responsible and timely information sharing, the NCR employs a variety of procedures and tools to collect, analyze, and disseminate information to stakeholders within the region. A few examples include: WebEOC [external link], the EOC dashboard, the Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS [external link]), and the Regional Incident Communication and Coordination System, Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) [external link], the Situational Awareness Dashboard, the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), and the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP).
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