EMXML Guiding Principles

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Emergency Management Standards EM- XML Consortium
EM Technical Committee Presentation
to Steve Cooper March 18,2003
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The Interoperability Imperative
State-sponsored terrorists and al Qaeda are
not going to wait until we have our act
together. Steve Cooper CIO, DHS
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Agenda

• EM Objectives HSPD 5
• EM XML Consortium
• EM Technical Committee (TC)
• EM-XML and DHS

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Need for Interoperable EM Standards

• Interoperability challenge
• Within agencies and corporations
• Between agencies and corporations
• With existing legacy systems
• With the next new new thing
• Incorporate best business practices for emergency
  and incident management
• 80 of emergency resources come from the private
  sector

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EM-XML Consortium Objectives

• Industry/Government consortium
• Rapid XML interoperability standards development
• Insure every American has appropriate access to
  the information they require when and how they
  need it (eGov, NRP and NIMS)

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HSPD 5 - Interoperability Requirements

• Paragraph 15
• To provide for interoperability and
  compatibility among Federal, State and local
  capabilities, the NIMS will include a core set of
  concepts, principles, terminology, and
  technologies covering the incident command
  system multi-agency coordination systems
  unified command training identification and
  management of resources (including systems for
  classifying types of resources) qualifications
  and certification and the collection, tracking
  and reporting of incident information and
  incident resources.

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EM-XML Consortium

• Industry initiated in October, 2002
• Now includes over 40 entities
• Software vendors
• System Integrators
• Corporations
• Government Agencies
• Not-for-Profit Organizations

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EM-XML Consortium

• Comprised of two committees
• Executive Committee
• Technical Committee

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EM-XML Executive Committee

• Big Tent
• Mission
• Facilitate collaboration
• Provide guidance and direction
• Outreach and education

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EM Technical Committee

• OASIS selected
• Mission Define standards that enable vital
  information exchange between local, state and
  federal agencies, private and not-for-profit
  organizations
• Researched and evaluated existing standards to
  enhance and fill gaps

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Scope of Technical Charter

• Design, develop and release XML schema-based
  standards
• Framework for data exchange, functionality and
  service accessibility
• Seamless application and data interoperability

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EM TC Deliverables and Schedule
Schedule is virtually identical to HSPD 5
By 4/1/03 develop and publish initial version of
NRP with plan for completion
By 6/1/03 develop standards, guidelines and
protocols to implement NIMS
By 9/1/03 prepare recommendations to fully
implement NRP
Commence rollout of NRP/NIMS standards,
guidelines and protocols
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EM TC Work Completed to Date

• Weekly Meetings starting 2/11/03
• 30 active members
• Draft Requirement Document
• Formation of Sub-Committees
• Collection of existing schema, data dictionaries,
  etc.

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Deployment Strategy

• Interoperability becomes critical buying decision
  criteria
• Economic incentive/imperative drives commercial
  proliferation
• Metcalfs Law promotes both adoption and
  competition within the emerging standards
  framework

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EM-XML and The e-Gov Initiative

• Share a common goal to ensure every American has
  appropriate access to whatever information they
  require when and how they need it
• Need to take a non-traditional approach to
  solving emergency management interoperability
• Disaster management not just a portal

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EM-XML and The NRP/NIMS

• HSPD 5 Schedule and the EM TC Schedule are
  virtually identical
• Use as basis for common, interoperability
  standards
• Insure effective interface with other related
  disciplines (health, legal, financial, etc.)
• Leverage off the work already under way
• Significantly increase stake-holder buy-in and
  reduce adoption resistance/complexity

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DHS/EM-XML Recommendations

• Formally incorporate EM-XML as part of the NRP
  development plan for NIMS
• Utilize EM-TC output for elements of the NIMS
  (Requirements, schema, DTDs, etc.)
• Fund and provide oversight for validation/verifica
  tion exercises
• Publish and proliferate standards

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DHS/EM-XML Collaboration Benefits

• Accomplish HSPD 5 objectives faster, better and
  cheaper
• Truly support all hazards mission
• Leverage value of installed base
• Foster and benefit from innovation
• Remove the stove-pipes
• Accelerate adoption/proliferation