The response to CBRNE events is no longer the domain of military specialists. In the modern security climate it is invariably the civilian emergency responders that are first on the scene of a terrorist incident or toxic accident - organisations that are not able to guarantee a CBRN specialist will be on hand at the moment of greatest need.
Of particular concern is the requirement to plan in advance for the CBRNE safety and security of large-scale public events. Coupling our military NBC-ANALYSIS and EOD-FRONTLINE software packages, we successfully supported the emergency organisations for the UK's Commonwealth Games in 2002 and the Athens Olympic Games of 2004. The operators of our products have subsequently taken the software into service for everyday use.
Using our long standing pedigree in military hazard prediction and warning software solutions, since 1999 Bruhn NewTech has devised a new generation of products ideally suited to the needs of the civil responder. The tools available range from user-friendly, simple, on-scene electronic hazard guidance notes up to detailed hazard prediction modelling for the specially trained advisors in incident command rooms. These tools can be networked to allow communication of hazard data and warning notices between the incident scene and decision makers, even sharing data with neighbouring areas to ensure they remain safe from any collateral or downwind hazard effects.
Bruhn NewTech's Civil Defence products have been developed both independently and in collaboration with other industry specialists to ensure proper cross-fertilization of ideas and operating principles.
CBRNE-Response. The complete CBRNE solution: planning and responding to CBRNE hazards and incidents both at the scene and at higher level headquarters. This is the mainstay product for civil defence use. It is versatile enough to be used as a plug-in to other systems. It can be used in a stand-alone capability or fully networked. The package includes the popular, operationally proven Emergency Response Guide 2004 database of hazardous substances. Both CBRNE safety templates or detailed prediction plumes can be displayed on a variety of mapping or photographic images, using all common map products. The software is readily linked to CBRNE, meteorological, GPS or security sensors making it fully flexible as a means of remotely managing and automating sensor networks. Such networks could, conceivably, cover very large urban areas with up to 128 sensors from a single control facility. At a smaller scale mobile reconnaissance platforms (vehicles, robots, aircraft) can carry sensors and the control suite in order to remove the operators from the toxic event scene.
Atlas Ops Vulcan. The Atlas Ops software, produced by APL, is the most widespread Police special operations modular planning, contingency and real-time command and control software system in the UK today. The Vulcan module is a derivative of CBRNE-Response, embedded within the broader capabilities of the Atlas programme to allow full emergency response planning and coordination using one simple, icon-drive software package, linking the strengths of both systems.
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