Simulated Oil Tanker, Benzene Chemical Tanker Collision in Tampa Bay

In light of recent natural and man-made disasters the ability to quickly respond is becoming more urgent than ever. Emergency response teams, rescue units, police and firefighters all need crucial and timely data to perform their jobs when time is of the essence and lives are on the line. By creating interoperability between systems this can be made possbile. It allows software and hardware on different servers from different vendors to share data, read and write the same file formats and use the same protocols, without special effort on the part of the user.