May 13, 2003
The Homeland Security Department is using collaborative Web-based software designed for crisis management to help track and manage events during the fictitious terrorist attacks in Chicago and Seattle this week.
The exercise, known as TopOff2 for the top officials who are participating, is the latest government effort to rely on the software, made by E Team Inc.
New York officials used the software to help manage the city's response following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Earlier this year, NASA used it to help track down more than 10,000 pieces of debris from the space shuttle Columbia disaster, according to John Stiner, vice president of E Team's federal sector. And the Department of Health and Human Services, which has been an E Team customer since last year, has used the software to track the spread of the West Nile virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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