News & Events

Northumberland County enters into contract with Forge Public Safety Solutions

April 2010

Forge Public Safety Solutions, a provider of multi-agency public safety software solutions, announced that it has entered into a contract with Northumberland County, PA to provide a county wide Computer Aided Dispatch solution. The new system will allow Northumberland 911 Communications to support the dispatch requirements of fifty-three volunteer fire departments, thirteen municipal police departments, nine ambulance stations and seven quick response stations. In addition, Northumberland County 911 tracks and monitors activities for the county coroner, adult and juvenile probation, state constables, state park rangers, the district attorney’s office and the district magistrates.The Forge computer-aided dispatch solution enables Northumberland County to support mapping, providing geo validated landline, Phase I and Phase II wireless location information in a map based display. This new system provides the 9-1-1 Communications center a level of sophistication and integration allowing them to enhance safety to the citizens of Northumberland County.

2010 APCO International Annual Conference

August 1-4, 2010

Come see us in Houston, TX.

The 2010 APCO Conference is being held in Houston,TX August 1-4th. We are in booth 1844, so stop by and see us and register for some cool giveaways

Picking Up the Pace

September 2009

A New Release and Expanded Development Capacity

The forth release of Forge CAD recently emerged from system testing for acceptance by our customers. We continue to pick up the tempo of enhancing existing functionality and expanding the capabilities as we seek to revolutionize what should be expected from a CAD. We work in partnership with our customers and listen to feedback at shows and incorporate the best ideas back into Forge CAD.

We've recently made moves to double our development capacity at our Lancaster, PA facility. This will allow us to do more to serve our customers' needs and accelerate our march forward.

Are you looking for a CAD that can better meet your needs? Are you looking for vendor that will truly work in partnership with you and listen to your needs? If so, contact us now and schedule a demonstration and consultation.

Public Safety Communications Magazine

February 2009

Scalable & Customizable

Cimbrian Technology released its new Forge CAD in spring 2008. The system includes extensive user-definable report capabilities, and all user actions are logged and reportable. Forge CAD uses a set of checks and balances that ensures all concurrent users always have full functional access to their unique or shared areas of responsibility. The system is scalable in regard to price and functionality. I found Forge to be a fully customizable CAD system, unrestrained by off-the-shelf product restrictions.

Emergency Number Professional Magazine

November/December 2008

Forge CAD — Breaking the Mold

by Sarah Yohe

Designing and tailoring a CAD solution to meet their unique needs gave Lancaster County Wide Communications control over the end product and significant improvement in the overall safety of Lancaster County residents and emergency personnel.

Located in Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Wide Communications (LCWC) is responsible for answering all 9-1-1 emergency calls across 60 municipalities and dispatching units for more than 140 Fire, Police and EMS agencies. In 2007, the LCWC radio room handled approximately 414,494 calls.

LCWC’s past two CAD (computer aided-dispatch) implementations introduced issues pertaining to multi-user access to incident details, time intensive data entry, slow system response time, system security and CAD vendor support. After taking a closer look at their commercial off the shelf (COTS) CAD product, LCWC decided that they needed a more flexible system that met their unique needs.

With a long-term history of providing LCWC with solid IT solutions, the Lancaster, PA-based IT consulting firm, Cimbrian, was selected to perform the vision phase of the CAD initiative in December of 2006. As their CAD consultant, Cimbrian helped LCWC understand what they needed their next CAD system to do by listening to the expectations and needs of their dispatchers and call takers as well as fire, police and EMS personnel.