Each year for the 4th of July, Washington, D.C. hosts one of the largest festivals and fireworks celebrations in the United States. Beginning early in the day on the 4th, hundreds of thousands of people converge on the National Mall and position themselves on the shores of the Potomac and in the shadows of the National Monuments for the best view of the concerts and fireworks display. In order to provide medical services, security, and operations support for the patrons at this annual event, a large number of federal, state, and local agencies work together to coordinate personnel, logistics, management, and incident response activities.

SitScape’s technology product was used to provide the collaborative and common operating picture (COP) for the Coordination Center and various distributed fields locations, enabled real-time information flow among federal and local agencies and their command and operational units.