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EMF - Event Management Framework

Overview

The Event Management Framework Advanced Concept Technical Demonstration (EMF ACTD) is a decision support agent which provides automated search, data reduction and data correlation capabilities. The web-based command and control application is service-oriented architecture (SOA) compliant, and enables operational command centers to quickly detect, prevent, preempt, disrupt, and mitigate critical situations and threats to the United States’ national interests in near real-time, while at the same time remaining sensitive to the rights, freedom, and privacy of United States citizens.

Why the need for EMF?

The need for EMF comes from a result of a number of different factors. Most importantly, in today's world the simple volume of information available far exceeds the ability of operators to differentiate between useless and important information in a timely manner. To combat this information overload, EMF employs JBISoft's own proprietary jbiFusion technology to provide users a powerful decision support assistant capable of producing actionable decision information across the Air, Land, Maritime, Cyber, and Space & Missle Defense domains.


Figure 1- The Event Management Framework Desktop

Event Management Framework

Features

EMF provides a number of critical capabilities to the United States Government, enabling operators to quickly transition raw data into Actionable Decision Information. These capabilities include:

  • Discovery & Search: EMF automated smart agent ability can rapidly acquire relevant information from known data sources and calculate relevance scores based on a domain driven ontology
  • Correlate: EMF identifies and visually displays direct and indirect associations of relevant mission data
  • Operational Assessment: EMF facilitates analysis of information that rapidly answers the 5 Ws of a mission event
  • Alert: EMF provides immediate notification of critical information supporting mission events
  • CCIR Alert (Critical): EMF second-level awareness automatically seeks out and alerts users to critical information
  • Visualization: EMF transforms geospatial textual information to visual products to enhance awareness

Benefits

  • Facilitates management of multiple events – workspaces segregate events across dynamic communities of interest
  • Improves operations - supports DoD and interagency decision makers and DHS incident managers
  • Improves situational awareness – correlates and shares operationally sensitive information across Air, Land, Maritime, Cyber and Space & Missile Defense domains
  • Reduces information collection from hours to minutes – smart agents collect data to allow analysts more time to analyze information
  • Focuses information collection on decision-oriented searches - EMF answers the who, what, where, when, and why of developing situations
  • Provides decision makers a SOA compliant web-based decision support assistant