IQCS is:

The Incident Qualifications and Certification System (IQCS) is an information system that tracks training and certifications for Wild land Firefighters.

IQCS is an Interagency application that allows the sharing of Wild land Firefighter training and certification data across all involved agencies (BLM, NPS, BIA, FWS, and the USFS). IQCS also provides All Risk (i.e. oil spills, HAZMAT, hurricane response, etc.) tracking functionality to personnel that perform emergency response duties.

This project combined the legacy Federal qualification systems into a single Interagency application. IQCS migrated data from the Department of the Interior Mainframe Shared Applications Computer System (SACS) that managed qualifications for the four DOI Bureaus associated with Wild land Fire and it integrated 160+ separate qualification databases managed by individual Forests in the US Forest Service. The system also provides the ability in the future to incorporate data from each of the 50 State maintained qualification systems.

The four major functions that IQCS performs are as follows:

1. Certification Standards Management: IQCS contains the Wild land fire incident response position performance standards and their respective qualification and certification requirements.
2. Training Management: IQCS can interface with LMS's or provide stand-alone abilities for course/offering descriptions, learning objectives, pre-course requirements, class schedules, student registration and class participation information.
3. Workforce Analysis: IQCS can report and forecast the disposition, status and deficiencies of all tracked positions from any agency in the incident response community; using a snapshot up to a 3-5 year projection.
4. Incident Responder Management: IQCS tracks personnel information related to qualifications and incident history that includes information such as: positions, position performance, training, physical fitness status, and external warrants.