We've gotten a lot of interest about our current project on assessing training personnel regarding compliance with SOP's. Starting in 2010, we're going to be running formal exercises with the Philadelphia Fire Department on Company Officer and Battalion Chief performance using simulation. Rather than make it a one-way conversation, we decided to create a wiki to detail our approach. I had hesitated to unveil it to the public (as public as this is!) but I realize that we are at a point at… Continue

What a thrilling week last week was!

We at CommandSim were honored to be selected as a finalist and winner of an Adobe MAX award, recognizing the best-of-the-best applications. CommandSim was placed in the Public Sector category (there were 7 other categories, such as Education, Mobile, Entertainment, etc). The other finalists in our category were very tough competitors, each with outstanding projects..

Recognizing tha… Continue

Finally we are ready to begin our testing of CommandSim Checklist (formerly called "Scorekeeper"), an electronic form entry program that is simple yet flexible. We anticipate it will be used to during or after exercises to help evaluators record their evaluations, as well as several other applications.

If you are interested in helping to test the application, please let me know -- email me at info@commandsim.com.

work as a instructor for firefighter 1 and 2 and rescue courses.

We (that being Jim Murphy and Dave Daniels) are in the process of developing an online class that will use the Fire Engineering sims as part of a Safety Officer curriculum. I can see it taking shape, and it is exciting and worthwhile. We'll let you know as it develops.