Fusion Center
The Fusion Center concept was first introduced in the US following the events of 9/11, to address the challenges of multiple disparate agencies being unable to effectively share information.
A Fusion Center is a terrorism prevention and response center that enables information sharing between multiple agencies working to deter terrorism and other criminal activities. Individual missions for each Fusion Center vary, ranging from data fusion to intelligence analysis, and some have adopted an All-Hazards, All-Crimes scope which gives a center a broad range of responsibility.
Fusion Centers have unique IT needs, due to the need to integrate multiple agencies under one roof, share data with different levels of law enforcement, support local and regional investigation, and produce intelligence reports for executive decision makers. With the addition of the See Something Say Something program and the National SAR Initiative, there is an increasing volume of analysis to be done, and data needs to be pushed to the national shared space and systems like eGuardian.
The Memex Fusion Center solution helps maximize limited resources to prevent and disrupt criminal activity by the generation of strategic, tactical and investigatory insight.
Too many places to look – too much information to look at
As a Fusion Center integrates with more data sources from various agencies, the sheer volume of different standalone systems and the data volumes they hold within them create a challenge. Analysts simply do not have time to proactively search and analyze all the information held in separate systems. The more serious result of this is that some data points may be overlooked, resulting in inefficient investigation and potentially dangerous consequences.
The Memex solution is designed to address this exact problem by helping analysts, investigators and officers see available information on a single platform, with intelligent visualization tools and advanced search capabilities. In total, the system allows users to more effectively develop actionable intelligence.
Optimizing efficiencies
There is a lot of pressure to do more with less by optimizing resources and efficiencies. Fusion Center IT systems need to provide a single platform that eliminates double-entry, provides a workflow from intake through vetting all the way to publishing intelligence products, while providing advanced search across all data sources. It needs to be easy to create summary statistics on “requests for service” and other work, so that commanders can document how the workload is changing and report on how the center is performing.
The Memex single integrated platform helps improve public safety (both the perception and the reality) by helping your team quickly move through work with unmatched visibility into key data, helping save time and ensuring decisions can be made faster.
Fits your processes – not the other way around
One of the biggest risks and greatest hidden costs involved in the purchase of any IT solution is having to change your own existing business processes to fit around a new system. The Memex solution is flexible enough to be tailored to fit your business processes and not the other way around. At the same time, workflows ensure your team is compliant with 28CFR23 and other legal mandates. As additional agencies and personnel join the Fusion Center they are able to be added to the system quickly and easily, with user-specific views, roles, and permissions.
Memex can be easily adapted and reconfigured to meet the changing and future needs of the organization. This ensures your organization can reduce risk by evolving and adapting to address new or emerging legislation, responsibilities or threats and in turn improve the overall return on investment for your organization.
