NCEM
Identification,
Badging and
Credentialing
(IBAC) System
North Carolina Emergency Management
Overview
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What is IBAC?
The Components In Place
What can it do?
Integration
Use and Policies
Future
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What is IBAC?
• A system that will fully integrate
identification cards, incident access
badges, and credentials/qualifications
• Comprised of Salamander™
components, TERMS, and various
credentialing systems
• Provides method for resource tracking
and validation of qualifications
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What Resources to Track?
• First responders (fire, law, EMS, rescue)
• Secondary responders (EM, hospitals, public
health, NGOs & FBOs)
• Tertiary players (lawyers, trade groups, and
other)
 WHY? All individually controlled at the local
and state levels with no interoperability …
ASTM standard A Guide for Credentialing
Access to an Incident or Event Site, NIMS, and
Real ID Act
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The Components in Place
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Salamander Resource Manager Web – Webbased hard card identification
Salamander RapidTAG – Short-term paper
identification tags
Salamander Command – Electronic ICS 207
on steroids
Salamander InterTrax Exchange – Web server
to provide overarching view of multiple
incidents and report creation
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What can it do?
• Create permanent hard cards
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containing qualifications
Check-in resources
Track resources/manage incidents
Allows personal accountability
(PARs)
Create reports
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Integration Strategy
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Integration Phases
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Local Integration
• Existing Salamander systems can
tie into state systems
(configuration)
• Branch kits
• New acquisitions can tie into state
system
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Use and Policies
• Branch kits are available
• MOA to tie into state system (design,
configuration, accounts)
• Must meet state identification policies
• Existing state agency specific contract
(revert process)
• HIPAA laws
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State Agency Specific
Contract
• Resource
Manager Web
Print Key $75
• Command Work
Center $42,995
• RapidTAG Work
Center $14,995
• Mobile Express
$4,895
• RapidTAG Evac
$6,125
• Hard Card
Printer $7,260
• Supplies
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Future
• Automatic qualification dumps
(OEMS/OSFM/etc. to TERMS and
Salamander)
• Near real-time visibility (NC
SPARTA)
• Standardized identification policies
and standards
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QUESTIONS?
GLENN WISBEY
GLENN.WISBEY@NCDPS.GOV
North Carolina Emergency Management