The National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination (
NC4), a leader in situational awareness, incident monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration, today announced it was awarded a contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enhance the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) information sharing capabilities. NC4 will provide the Extranet Secure Portal (ESP) service as the platform for the DHS Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Intelligence Portal via its secure application service provider model. The migration to the ESP platform will enable DHS I&A to rapidly deploy a proven operational capability to meet mission-critical objectives. NC4 was selected because the extranet secure portal service delivers existing functionality and security that meets DHS I&A priority requirements for handling the dissemination and collaboration of intelligence information at the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) level. The NC4 solution enables DHS to deploy this capability within days rather than months or years.
The NC4 portal will provide DHS I&A with a trusted secure platform for the rapid dissemination of intelligence data at the CUI level to 10,000 users including representatives from the DHS Intelligence Enterprise as well as a nationwide community of State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector (SLTP) customers, and Federal and International partners. The portal will also be utilized to support State Fusion Centers by providing a secure environment as well as a suite of core tools for collaboration at the CUI level amongst intelligence analysts nationwide.
Under the terms of the one-year contract with two option years, NC4 will deliver, host, and manage the infrastructure and security for the I&A secure portal. NC4 will establish the information sharing portal structure to support and maintain bi-directional communication among intelligence professional entities. The contract is valued at a potential $6.1 million over the three-year period.
