City of New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina Recovery

"(Previstar's) efforts in the recovery process ... have saved the City literally tens of millions of dollars."

Previstar's role:


  • Management of FEMA recovery, reporting, and reimbursement process
  • Management of rescue, recovery, and rebuilding resources
  • Management of public 311 system and knowledgebase

“The system was quickly implemented and operational.  A by-product of managing the assets and resources has been an audit trail that allows us to automatically generate our FEMA reimbursement requests ... [T]he work and efforts in the recovery process ... have saved the City literally tens of millions of dollars ..."


City of New Orleans

MEDCOM BT - Field Exercise

"... [W]e could adjust predictive models ... dynamically changing our response as necessary. The other software management tools that we evaluated did not allow for this ..."

Previstar's role:


  • Pre-defined plague template used to forecast the impact of a bioterrorism incident
  • Operational procedures and checklists were generated, resource requirements outlined, and Tasks assigned

"(Previstar) provided MEDCOM with the management tools we needed to predict and manage biological events ... Then, as our simulated event unfolded, we could adjust predictive models using our "real-world" data, dynamically changing our response as necessary. The other software management tools that we evaluated did not allow for this functionality."


Lt. Colonel Donald Lett

U.S. Army MEDCOM

TOPOFF III - National Exercise

"(Previstar) got us through the exercise much more aware of what our needs and responsibilities will be."

Previstar's role:


  • Utilized predictability modeling to assist local authorities in decision-making
  • Assisted epidemiologists in tracking cases and identifying trends and case history
  • Created user-defined forms to collect patient information
  • Incident geo-coding for epidemiological analysis

"We were very satisfied with (Previstar) and its capabilities ... It made my job easier and got us through the exercise much more aware of what our needs and responsibilities will be."


Ellen Shelley

Epidemiologist

Union County, NJ

Emergency Operations Center - Montgomery County, MD

"We selected (Previstar) after conducting a thorough analysis of all the leading emergency management packages ..."

Previstar's role:


  • Solution for powering the county's Emergency Operations Center
  • Advanced programs for the predictive modeling
  • Comprehensive resource database allowing users to organize, quantify, and allocate all county assets in real time.
  • Tools for tracking key resources: including an integrated GIS system and visual displays such as floor plans, blueprints, and mapping programs

"We selected (Previstar) after conducting a thorough analysis of all the leading emergency management packages ... determining factors were the advanced programs for the predictive modeling, and the resource database allowing us to organize, quantify, and allocate in a real time manner all of the County's assets."


Bob Freeman

Office of the Fire Chief

Montgomery County, MD

Emergency Planning - Palm Beach County, FL

"It is companies like (Previstar) that help make us more efficient and bring our homeland security and emergency planning and preparedness activities to the next level."

Previstar's role:


  • Utilize risk assessment data to enhance emergency planning and strategic analysis capabilities.
  • Manage large amounts of data
  • Convert static assessment data into a dynamic framework.
  • Geo-coding of locations of critical facilities, such as hospitals, onto GIS maps
  • Training and preparedness support with dynamic data and drill-down functionality

"We saw (Previstar) as a system that could help us with our responsibilities for pre-incident planning, response, and recovery. It is companies like (Previstar) that help make us more efficient and bring our homeland security and emergency planning and preparedness activities to the next level."


Charles Tear

Director of Emergency Management

Palm Beach County, FL