County of San Diego - Supervisor Ron Roberts
From early in the NICS development pathway, officials at the County of San Diego realized the impact this program could have in added safety, efficiency and effectiveness, for both citizens and first responders during large-scale emergency incidents, such as the fire sieges of 2003 and 2007. Leading this group was County Supervisor Ron Roberts, who immediately grasped the potential of NICS and made incorporating it into the regional disaster response platform the central part of his 2012 State of the County address. Supervisor Roberts relentless support from the earliest moments included mustering political awareness and help from throughout the County of San Diego, state of California and even at the Federal level. His open advocacy was instrumental in securing the interest and 2015 follow through of officials at the State.
San Diego Gas & Electric
Early in the NICS development senior managers at San Diego Gas & Electric, the San Diego-based utility, saw how Raven-NICS capabilities could allow them to have greater situational awareness on evolving emergencies, not to mention added safety for employees in the field. SDGE stepped up early and funded the revolutionary ODIN project which mounted a high resolution Video/IR camera on Air Attack 330. More significantly, SDGE provided the critical bootstrap funding to help WICS get off the ground and engineer the transition of NICS to Raven. None of the progress that has been experienced in this program could have happened without the support of SDGE, and especially Danny Zaragoza, Cameron Durckel, Randy Lyle, and Hal Mortier.
Amazon Web Service
The Nonprofit Organization support division of AWS has provided critical assistance to WICS as we have re-hosted the NICS technology into the AWS Cloud in the form of Raven. Of particular help have been Marko Cemovic, Chris Timmerman, and Brad Coughlan (Amazon Australia).
REAN CLOUD
REAN Cloud, www.reancloud.com, based out of Herndon, VA, is pleased to be the WICS partner of choice to migrate NICS-Raven onto the AWS Cloud. An Advanced Amazon Consulting Partner, REAN Cloud provides professional services in the form of technical implementation and software engineering to help manage software dependencies, optimize for cloud adoption, and providing custom development to further the platform as we move forward. In addition to the initial migration, REAN Cloud provides Managed Cloud Services that provides 24x7x365 operational watch and help desk support in a secure cloud environment. Information on these services can be found by contacting info@reancloud.com.