Abstract

Growing the Food Safety Situational Awareness Viewer
Track: Health and Human Services
Authors: Nathan Beck

Over the past year the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Office of Crisis Management have worked to grow a prototype situational awareness viewer into an production-quality application. Using the flex viewer template and ArcGIS Server 10, the situational awareness viewer provides customized tools and geographic visualization to FDA employees monitoring outbreaks or participating in incident response activities. The application has expanded to include an analysis tool for adverse event reports, and new services from the FDA Emergency Operations Network Incident Management System and other Federal partners. Improvements also include a move to a new data center more capable of handling the application's workload. The viewer team has been working assiduously with groups throughout the agency to advertise the abilities of the application, expand the user base, and collect requirements for future enhancements.