Building an E911 Dispatch Center in Fort Bragg, N. C.

Intergraph Corp. was selected by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to assist in the design and implementation of a consolidated E.911 emergency dispatch system for the Integrated Incident Management Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Under the contract, worth $2 million, Intergraph will deliver emergency public safety services to Fort Bragg, including the capability to interconnect emergency alerts, critical data and predictions of potential incidents to E.911 centers. The system will provide alerts over public safety mass notification networks for homeland security and public safety emergencies. The consolidated E.911 facility will also help provide mutual aid and secondary dispatch notification operations for Pope AFB and various city and county volunteer fire and rescue services in the Fort Bragg vicinity.

Working with ORNL and the Fort Bragg Public Safety Business Center, the company will introduce its computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system to the Bragg Experimental SensorNet Testbed (BEST), a five-year research project to develop and implement standards-based interfaces between public-safety answering points and smart sensor networks. Intergraph's contribution to the project will provide a comprehensive, effective command and control system that facilitates situational awareness and preparedness via a common operating picture. The system includes integrated, intelligent mapping, as well as system availability of 99 percent uptime.