Logbook
Separate logbooks for operations, public information, resource tracking, and significant events. Entries carry a priority and type, threaded responses, attachments, and a map location.
Emergency Management
One record for every event,
from daily operations to full activation.
Your EOC works from the same logbooks, map, status charts, and files, and every action is stamped with who took it and the position they held.
How COBRA is organized
COBRA is always in an event. Day to day, your team works in your organization's default event. When something needs its own record, whether an incident, a planned event, or an exercise, you open a named event and every tool scopes itself to it. When it's over, you close the event and the record stays, read only, for after-action review.
It runs at national scale. Belgium uses COBRA as its national incident and crisis management system, and it has coordinated response for the Rio 2016 Olympics and the aftermath of the Brussels attack. Read the case studies
The tools
Map
Everything in the event that has a location, in one view. Add symbols and annotations, including exclusion, isolation, and dissuasion rings, show tracked vehicles and devices with their path and history, and copy coordinates in latitude and longitude or MGRS.
Status Chart
Color-coded grids for section staffing, shelters, resource deployment, or critical infrastructure, built from your own templates, readable from across the room, and updated for everyone at once.
Tasks
Assign work to people or positions, see who has acknowledged it, flag what is blocked, and review every change in the task's activity history.
Checklists
Start from ICS position checklists or your own templates, assign a responsible position, and track progress by operational period.
Files
An organization library for plans, ICS forms, and procedures, plus event files that stay with the event. Search, preview photos and video, and edit Word documents in place.
Facilities
Keep the locations your organization manages, with contacts, emergency plans, and attachments, and add them to any event map.
Chat
One live conversation for everyone working the event.
COBRA AI
Ask plain-language questions about the event you are in. COBRA AI reads the event's logbook entries and activity, drafts text for you to review, and records every question and answer on the Event Timeline.
Event Timeline
Every action, who took it, and the position they held, with export for your after-action review.
Milestones
For planned events, track whether each element, such as a water point or an aid station, hits milestones due at set times from the start, on one board with a readiness percentage.
Available January 2027
Med Ops
Coordinate medical resources alongside the broader response. Med Ops keeps facility capability and bed availability, medical resource status, and EMS assignments visible to the EOC without requiring a separate system or manual reconciliation.
Built around ICS
COBRA is built on the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System, so the structures your staff already train on are the structures in the software. Staff take an ICS position when they enter an event, and that position is stamped on everything they do. Logbooks work like an ICS 214 for each function, checklists start from ICS position templates, and blank ICS forms live in Files.
Multi-Agency Coordination
Bring partner agencies into the same event with role-based access, so coordination doesn't depend on phone calls and email.
Works with what you already have
Your GIS
The map is built in, so there's no separate GIS to license. It also reads what you already run: WMS, WFS, and ArcGIS feature services, KML, shapefiles, and GeoJSON, plus NEXRAD radar and NOAA hazards out of the box. Other integrations are available by arrangement.
Your language
Use COBRA in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German, Dutch, Romanian, or Hungarian, with Arabic shown right to left. Turn on automatic translation and logbook entries are readable in all eight languages, with the original always kept.
See it in a campus response
Read the transcript
You have a plan. You have walked it through with your city police and your county EMS. You have sat around a table and worked the scenario nobody wants to name out loud. Your people have prepared for this.
And then it is an ordinary Tuesday. Thousands of people, across dozens of buildings. And in the first minutes, the plan you exercised meets the thing itself. Where is it. Who is responding. Which buildings are clear.
COBRA is where that plan runs. Campus police, city police, and EMS in one event, on one map. Which buildings are secured. Where responders are. What is known, and when. Every decision and every notification goes into one immutable log, stamped with who made it, when, and the position they held.
Your emergency plans and your building layouts are right there, not in a binder in an office nobody can reach. Command sees the same picture from the field or from the operations center.
And as the scene stabilizes, the same event carries into reunification. One shared picture for the work of getting every student back to their family.
One campus. Or every campus in a system, held to one standard, on one record. We are not a software vendor. We are practitioners, and we partner on the mission.
See it on a rail incident
Read the transcript
A rail car leaves the track. From that second, every minute is on the record. Hazmat on the ground. Multiple agencies, contractors, and regulators. The questions start immediately, and they don't stop. Who knew what and when? Who made the call? What got done?
The railroads running COBRA already have the answer. Every status change, every decision, every action goes into one immutable log, stamped with who did it, when, and the position they held. Event status shows the posture at a glance. Trackers show where every site and crew stands. The action plan and forms keep the operation moving.
Nothing is lost. Nothing is deniable. The record writes itself while the team works. So when the regulators, the insurers, or the lawyers ask what happened, the answer is one complete, time-stamped account, exported in seconds.
And when you put it all on the map, the site, the product, the exclusion zone, the routes, and every field report live in one picture. From the first call through environmental closeout.
COBRA. One source of truth for every operation.
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