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BW0812 NOV 15,1999 13:08 PACIFIC 16:08 EASTERN
( BW)(VA-LITTON-INDUSTRIES-2)(LIT) Litton Provides A Common Information Management System - CIMS - To Seven Canadian Police Services
Business Editors and High-Tech Writers
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999--
Will Integrate Technology to Enhance Delivery of Services for all Seven Police Services
PRC, Inc., a subsidiary of Litton Industries (NYSE:LIT), announced today that seven Ontario Police Services have jointly signed contracts with Litton PRC for a Common Information Management System (CIMS) that will be built and implemented within 2 years. These contracts are valued at over $10M (US dollars).
The seven Police Services, all based in Ontario, Canada, include: the Durham Regional Police Service, Halton Regional Police Service, Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Service, Niagara Regional Police Service, Peel Regional Police Service, Waterloo Regional Police Service (including their partners in P.R.I.D.E. Services - Guelph, Brantford and Stratford Police Services), and York Regional Police Service; and represent more than ten percent of all law enforcement in Canada.
Based on Litton PRC's innovative and successful automated records and dispatch management system, CIMS will integrate those technology functions that will enhance the delivery of policing services to the public.
When complete, the CIMS system will:
-- Create, store and deliver images of mug shots, fingerprints,
photographs and documents;
-- Allow each police service to tailor the system to its own
particular requirements within configuration parameters;
-- Allow police agencies to share all event-related information with
other police agencies in an index or central data repository,
while restricting access based on levels of security;
-- Provide tools to reduce the amount of time and effort police
officers spend entering reports and preparing court documents and
searching for information;
-- Provide an open communications network so that these seven police
services as well as other local police agencies, Provincial,
Ministries and Federal Ministries can share data;
-- Provide the information to a police mobile unit (laptop); and
-- Provide a system that can add new policing services to the
public.
"We are pleased to be able to extend our technological law enforcement advancements on a worldwide basis," said Leonard M. Pomata, Litton vice president and president of PRC. "Our ultimate goal is to be able to help law enforcement agencies throughout the world, identify potential criminals faster and more accurately."
Litton PRC has a rich heritage of working in support of law enforcement for decades at all levels of law enforcement and public safety. As the world's leading provider of Computer Aided Dispatch systems, Litton PRC "911" Altaris(tm) emergency systems are on the front line of information technology supporting public safety. Altaris(tm) Computer Aided Dispatching systems support public safety operations, serving sixty six million American and Canadian citizens in over five hundred policing and fire jurisdictions. Altaris(tm) Computer Aided Dispatch systems serve seven of the ten largest metropolitan centers in the United States as well as major cities in Canada, UK and Ireland.
Litton PRC also holds the contract for the Identification Tasking and Networking (ITN) segment of the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Litton PRC re-engineered the fingerprint processes, developed the human-machine interfaces for IAFIS, implemented an ATM-based network, and implemented a state-of-the-art high-volume image storage and rapid retrieval capability for the FBI file which now contains 35 million digitized fingerprint cards, with a total of roughly 40 terabytes of data.
In addition to ITN, Litton PRC has delivered other national level law enforcement systems, including the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS); the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System (NADDIS) for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) which the DEA uses to track individuals and conveyances suspected of illegal narcotics trafficking. Litton PRC also has designed and installed state-of-the-art criminal justice information systems for the states of Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico with an AFIS integration effort in progress for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Litton PRC is a leading provider of scientific, engineering, information technology-based solutions for public sector clients. Litton PRC is one of the divisions that comprise Litton's Information Systems Group (ISG). Litton ISG, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., employs more than 9,200 in 150 offices nationwide, and is ranked as one of the Federal government's top 10 contractors.
Litton Industries (NYSE:LIT) is a leader in worldwide technology markets for information, advanced electronic and defense systems; and designs, builds and overhauls surface ships for military and commercial customers.
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steve
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