SWORD Urban Emergency

The ability to react to critical events is a crucial skill for managers facing increasing risks emerging from the complexity of large industrial systems, the interlocking of vulnerable networks, the multiplicity of involved actors, and the uncontrollable effects of media coverage. This ability can only be developed on purpose through managers' training. These trainings will, on one hand, allow managers to test existing emergency procedures and cooperation between organizations, and, on the other hand, familiarize them with unfamiliar and stressful crisis situations.

SWORD Urban Emergency provides a new training system for crisis managers, based on innovative simulation tools, allowing trainers to easily recreate the most complex crisis situations. Simulation tools offer unprecedented control to the trainer over the training session while making the virtual crisis reactive to the trainee’s actions and providing an unlimited variety of extreme crisis situations, a challenge that even very expensive ground exercises cannot meet.

In fact, such a system fills a gap, in-between outdoor, real-size role-plays, and indoor, analysis of predefined scenarios.

SWORD Urban Emergency relies on MASA’s generic SWORD architecture, allowing networked multi user trainings and providing DIRECTIA®’s breakthrough technology for crowds and autonomous unit’s behaviors simulation. Trainees can give operational high level orders to simulated chain of commands and units who will execute their mission and provide operational reports. This unique feature allows SWORD Urban Emergency to realistically simulate population behaviors as well as first responders.

Applications

City level crisis managers training
Firefighter command post training
Multi service collaborative emergency plans creation and risk assessment
Decision support tool during crisis
Multi service collaborative training for virtual and low cost real-size exercises
Past crisis events analysis

Key features

Multi-user system for distributed trainings over a local area network.
Crisis scenario creation with simple drag and drops of assets
Decision support tool for crisis management plan creation
Planning and PERT edition tool.
Crisis management trainings for homeland security actors at city level (city representatives, city services, firefighter, police command posts, critical infrastructures managers).
Industrial, natural and terrorist hazards simulation
Real-time training sessions supported by a short-time based for a reactive simulation.
Behavioral simulation of populations reactive to crisis events
Traffic simulation for realistic population and public safety units mobility
Behavioral and chain of command simulation for public safety units
Recording of trainings
Tracking and management of message exchanges between trainers and trainees.
After action analysis with replay and synthetic performance indicators computation
Adaptable in order to become interoperable with an existing C4I system
Easy modification of population and first responder’s behaviors with a dedicated graphical editor. Creation of new characters through simple drag and drops from a standard behaviors library.
Risk cartography
Communication tools to allow an easy control and evaluation of the training session.