10 millions de dollars pour un serious game sécuritaire

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded a $10.5 million multi-year contract to develop serious games that result in better decision-making by teaching participants to recognize and mitigate the effects of their own biases when analyzing information used to make decisions.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), through an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract, has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million multi-year contract under the Sirius program. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company. The goal of the Sirius program is to develop serious games that result in better decision-making by teaching participants to recognize and mitigate the effects of their own biases when analyzing information used to make decisions.

> http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20111118-game-to-improve-defense-homeland-security-decision-making

CrimeView Dashboard helps fight crime in real-time

In an effort to share information in an easily manageable format, the Chesapeake Police Department in Virginia recently implemented the CrimeView Dashboard; CrimeView is a cloud-based software system that allows an entire agency to monitor criminal activity in real-time with maps, charts, and reports

Law enforcement agencies now have a deluge of information readily available to them thanks to new technologies, but keeping officers from becoming inundated with too much information is now becoming an issue.

In an effort to share information in an easily manageable format, the Chesapeake Police Department in Virginia recently implemented the CrimeView Dashboard.

> http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/crimeview-dashboard-helps-fight-crime-real-time

> http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/chesapeake-police-leverage-technology-with-crimeview-dashboard/193563

Crisis robots show people to emergency exits

WHAT should you do when alarms are ringing, the building is rapidly filling with smoke and the crackle of fire is just round the corner? Follow the robot, say Ayanna Howard and Paul Robinette, electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who want to create smart roving exit signs.

Static signs point people to safety but can't warn evacuees when an exit is blocked or unsafe. The researchers suggest that evacuation robots could instead guide people to the nearest exit, seek out stragglers and alert emergency services to the whereabouts of people who are injured or trapped.

> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128247.000-crisis-robots-show-people-to-emergency-exits.html