Interagency Helpdesk Services

Alaska	Pacific	Mountain	Central	Eastern

ROSS (Resource Ordering and Status System) is used by wildland dispatchers to order, fill, and track resources on wildland incidents.

I-Suite (Incident Suite) is a set of 4 integrated applications used on site at the incident to track resources and estimate costs.

DMS (Dispatch Messaging System) is the web based interagency messaging system that is used by the wildland dispatch community nationwide.

VIPR (Virtual Incident PRocurement) is a web-based service that allows contractors to bid on solictations offered by the USDA.

ABS (Aviation Business System) is a web-based service for entering invoices for aircraft. It also allows users to bundle invoices together and send them to their vendors for verification and to payment for processing.

ICBS-R (the re-engineered Interagency Cache Business System) is a web-based service for tracking inventories in the National and Local Area Incident Support Caches. ICBS-R allows users to process inbound and outbound orders, as well as maintain and organize the inventory.

NIFC Applications:

FAMWEB: The Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications web site brings together a variety of applications, tools, and services related to interagency fire and aviation management managed by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and participating agencies. The website provides detailed information, data access, and application entry points for system users, interagency partners, providers, and the public.	The fire behavior and fire danger systems described on FireModels.org are public domain and most can be downloaded from this site. They are designed to be used by fire and land managers who have training and fire experience.
The intent of this software is to be a supportive tool for the assistance in the creation and management of geographic data and to produce maps for the specific reason of supporting Wildland Fire Incidents. This software fully complies with the Incident Command System (ICS), the GIS Standard Operating Procedures (GSTOP), and the GIS Specialist (GISS) position duties.	Automated Flight Following (AFF) is a system that automatically tracks the location and velocity of specially-equipped aircraft and other mobile assets, providing this information in near-real-time to dispatchers, aviation managers, and other authorized users.
The purpose of the Fire Program Analysis system is to provide managers a common, interagency process for strategic fire management planning and budgeting. FPA will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative fire management strategies to support land management goals and objectives.	InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident information management system. The system was developed with two primary missions: 1. Provide the public a single source of incident related information 2. Provide a standardized reporting tool for the Public Affairs community
This system assists fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents. It has replaced the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis), Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP), and Long-Term Implementation Plan (LTIP) processes with a single process that is easier to use, more intuitive, linear, scalable, and progressively responsive to changing fire complexity.	WFAS is currently based on weather observations taken at fire weather stations throughout the U.S. and entered into the Weather Information Management System (WIMS). NFDRS calculations are done at the National Computer Center at Kansas City (NCC-KC). The fuel model, index, and fire danger levels are set by local managers. National WFAS maps are produced from fire danger levels using simple inverse distance square interpolation. Satellite "greenness" products are currently stand-alone indicators of fire potential and not integrated into the calculations except in the experimental projects.