On Thursday, Dec. 9, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano officially launched Virtual USA, a national initiative aimed at sharing public safety information between state, local and federal government authorities regardless of the technologies involved. Under development for some time now, the project has been the subject of FEMA OPEN SIG webcasts and is based on functioning systems in Alabama and Virginia. Seven Gulf Coast states recently conducted a successful test of a regional operations platform as part of the initiative. And further projects are under consideration in the Northwest and elsewhere.
Read the DHS press release for more information.
Virtual USA Officially Unveiled
by News Report on December 10, 2009
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