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May 26, 2010 Networking Event: Summary
The meeting was started with a welcome from the President, Alex Devereux and announcements concerning legislative activities by Ted Kraver. Alex introduced Henry Rung and the presentation started.
Henry Rung President of InXsol presented his new research based training application using internet based voice recognition at the GAZEL May 26th luncheon at ASU Skysong. Since 1997, inXsol has been a work-for-hire company developing medical, aerospace, gaming, psychology and other simulation based training for Fortune 500 companies. The10 person staff is supported by off shore resources.
They recently won SBIR development grants from one of the large number of government organizations requesting innovative research from small business that will result in new technology that can be exploited commercially. They were awarded a Phase I demonstration and feasibility grant followed by a much larger Phase II to create real commercial products. They are 25% through this development that will be finalized by August 2011.
The Command Plan Project is for the National Institute for Environmental Health Systems. It will train the incident commanders on how to manage multi-disciplined teams of first responders addressing incidents ranging from chemical spills to weapons of mass destruction. Using Phoenix and NYC fire fighters as their initial test subjects, this system trains know how to coordinate and make decisions, while minimizing hazards themselves.
The current simulation is a view of the incident scene from a truck with the commander using radio microphone to bring in and manage resources. The simulation includes avatar voices of the entities in the field. It replaces current simulated command centers such as a Chevy truck where a Phoenix fire commander sits talking to cubical based people reading scripts
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