Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia with central operations in Gardner, Massachusetts;  Advanced Response Concepts develops and markets leading-edge secure critical response management solutions designed to improve coordination within emergency services and critical infrastructure agencies.  Advanced Response Concepts understands the communities that comprise Emergency Services, and uniquely provides a proven, standards-based, interoperable, and flexible method to identify, classify, and securely manage the identity, and attribute information of our Nations First Responders.  Our trusted solutions provide an advanced safety component to our First Responders through an integrated accountability and resources tracking system.

Our primary business areas include:

• First Responder Credentialing
• Accountability Solutions
• Incident Management
• Concept to Solution Services

Supporting the needs of our Critical Response Communities

The complexity of our comprehensive solution combines the technical requirements and the insight into the infrastructure, processes and practices of each of the varied communities.  The solution is designed to support the needs and considerations of each of the communities comprising the public safety, emergency services and critical infrastructure resource pool while considering the overarching policies inherent in the governance by Federal Agencies led by DHS, DHHS, DOJ, and DOD.  Also incorporated in the design is the expected guidance to first responder credentialing being drafted cooperatively between ANSI and FEMA.

Our solution is designed to assist in managing the full range of events; from day to day responses to multi-jurisdictional and/or multi state disasters. A trained firefighter or police officer can resolve a minor traffic accident; many skilled individuals are required for a mass disaster. Central to managing an emergency event of any size is the ability to coordinate the proper resources to directly operate and resolve the disaster; then to manage the recovery.

RaptorID™

RaptorID™ is the foundational system in our offering.  This system is supported by credentials scalable from barcodes to smart cards issued to the volunteer first responders have the further utility to be used for other purposes requiring a fully vetted identity. RaptorID™ creates a baseline for attributes based on national standards organizations like the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), The National EMS Scope of Practice Model from the Department of Transportation, National Incident Management System (NIMS) classifications, and a specially designed proprietary baseline of Law Enforcement skills, the system is similar to that used in network management. In addition to these mandatory “attributes”, additional information about the individual who has enrolled is maintained, i.e. skills, training, certifications, a detailed medical record, etc. The RaptorID™ field enrollment kit, allows the client to conduct “just in time” credentialing operations in a field/operational environment.  RaptorID™ Desktop Smart Card Reader/Writers are included in the solution offering as well as program management and training.