NICS Mobile vs HabiTally

The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS) is a scalable, non-proprietary, standards-based software platform that provides rich, timely situational awareness, and cross jurisdictional collaboration to improve disaster response operations. NICS has been developed in close partnership with the Emergency Management Community and has been used on hundreds of real-world events since 2010 to coordinate responses to all-hazard incidents (earthquakes, floods, wildland fires), search and rescue operations, and major security events. NICS supports both web and mobile clients. More information is available at: https://public.nics.ll.mit.edu.

Monarch butterflies face many challenges that have contributed to a significant decline in their population over the last two decades. More breeding habitat and food resources, including milkweed and nectar sources, across the migration route will help monarch populations recover. HabiTally enables farmers, ranchers, landowners and private citizens to support these efforts by entering data about their monarch habitat conservation efforts. Data collected through HabiTally will be made anonymous and aggregated at the county level. HabiTally data will be shared with other parties involved in monarch conservation/habitat implementation while remaining anonymous.