To address these issues the EMHSD contracted with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to analyze SEOC operations and design, develop and implement an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) and an enterprise-wide CIMS for the State of Michigan. The E Team web-based CIMS software application was selected as the preferred information management tool. EMHSD purchased an Enterprise Level License for the E Team deployment to the governor's office, all state agencies, all local emergency management programs, numerous local police, fire, hospital/medical facilities, non-governmental organizations, and other critical infrastructures within Michigan. Because E Team is a web-based application, users can access the system regardless of their location. E Team enables the state to easily share disaster response and recovery information in real time with affected local response organizations, federal agencies, neighboring states, the Province of Ontario, or appropriate non-governmental response and recovery organizations such as the American Red Cross.

E Team allows users to summarize and track emergencies in Incident reports, enter messages in the Duty Log reports, monitor Resource Requests and Critical Assets, view Agency and Jurisdiction readiness in their respective Situation reports, view incidents and other geographic information on a map, as well as upload and access Reference Documents right from the E Team system. These are just a few capabilities of E Team as it is a very dynamic system that facilitates communication and data exchange within and between organizations.

How the statewide system is structured 
EMHSD has created a statewide E Team system with several servers distributed across the state for users to access. All of these servers replicate with each other so that they all contain the same information. This builds in a great factor of redundancy across the system so that if one server goes down a user can log into another E Team server and continue with the response. There are currently several E Team servers housed at the SEOC that SEOC representatives and State Agency users can access. There are also eight regional servers in place across the state: Berrien, Grand Traverse, Isabella, Midland, St Clair, Van Buren, and Wayne Counties as well as the City of Detroit. Local governments and other local response organizations are able to access the regional servers at this time, once they have been through an E Team training session. 

How does a jurisdiction or organization become part of the E Team system? 
Each user must first attend an E Team training session in order to receive their unique login information.  Users must be vetted by their Emergency Management Coordinator in order to sign up for an E Team class.  There are E Team training sessions available through the EMHSD/MSP that are conducted at the SEOC. There are also several local E Team trainers throughout the state that can arrange a local E Team training session.
  

Who to contact for more information:

Jaclyn Barcroft

Critical Incident Management Coordinator

Michigan State Police Emergency Management

     & Homeland Security Division

Office Phone: 517-324-2385

Email: BarcroftJ@michigan.gov