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NOV-DEC 2015

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22 SECURITY TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE • November/December 2015 www.SecurityInfoWatch.com 2015 SECURITY INNOVATION AWARDS B y Ra n d y Par s o ns Port Description The Port of Long Beach (POLB) is one of Amer- ica's premier seaports and a trailblazer in goods movement and environmental stewardship. Trade valued annually at more than $180 bil- lion moves through Long Beach, making it the second-busiest seaport in the United States. A major economic force, the Port supports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach, 316,000 jobs throughout Southern California and 1.4 mil- lion jobs throughout the United States. It gen- erates about $16 billion in annual trade-related wages statewide. Protecting the port complex is vital to our national economic and security interests. The Port's security teams and its partners are com- mitted to protecting this national asset and the surrounding community. The Port of Long Beach Joint Command & Control Center (JCCC) is a critical hub of a coordinated security effort that includes partnerships with multiple agen- cies including local and state law enforcement, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and others. The JCCC monitors the maritime domain 24 hours a day, gathering information, analyzing data and disseminat- ing information to security partners. The Port of Long Beach has formalized agreements with regional security partners and Port security stakeholders, including marine terminal opera- tors, to share security information, conduct joint training and operations, and coordinate threat information. The Integrated Solution Background As POLB worked to create a world class security automation program, the need to store, sort, prioritize and manipulate data became evident. It was determined early in the benchmarking process that no product existed in the market- place and that no off-the-shelf solutions were available. The Security Division immediately started to look into various independent solu- tions that could provide special capabilities nec- essary to accomplish the overarching detail that the Port was attempting to achieve. The focus of that activity was primarily Geographic Imaging Systems (GIS) and the visual representation of data that could be acquired through that type of system. Through a request for statement of qualification process and a subsequent white paper and demonstration process, potential developers of the Virtual Port system were iden- tified and evaluated. The team led by Environ- mental Systems Research Institute (Esri) was selected to develop the Virtual Port platform. Virtual Port provides a dynamic operational planning tool for real time status of activities and events throughout the Port. It supplies Port stakeholders with timely data for busi- ness resiliency, daily operations, threat and incident response, asset & property manage- ment and event documentation. Virtual Port is a user friendly, geo-spatially based system. It is a modular platform that consists of numerous independent software applications that cre- ate a tool box concept. Virtual Port has four (4) primary data sources: storage of historical Virtual Port Concept Powers Unique Security Project Port of Long Beach search for world class management solution takes coordinated multi-agency effort to succeed SECURITY INNOVATION AWARD G O L D W I N N E R POLB Project Notes: Project Partners: • CAPT. Jennifer Williams, U.S. Coast Guard • Commander Randy Allen, Long Beach Police Department • Deputy Chief Mike Sarjeant, Long Beach Fire Department • Chief Ron Boyd, Los Angeles Port Police • Deputy Chief Robert Green, Los Angeles Police Department • Chief Deputy Mario Rueda, Los Angeles Fire Department • Kip Louttit, Marine Exchange of Los Angeles/Long Beach Project Solution Providers: • Esri • IHS Global, Inc. • WeatherFlow, Inc • Witt O'Brien's, LLC. • Datamyne • GNIP • Lanair • SSR • Marine Exchange • General Dynamics • Port of Long Beach

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