NIEM Governance

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• NIEM Governance

Paul Wormeli Chairman NIEM Communications and
Outreach Committee
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Governance Structure
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Executive Steering Committee

• ESC is responsible for
• Providing executive leadership and direction
• Advocating for NIEM (federal, state and local)
• Assisting PMO in securing funding and resolving
  policy issues
• Establishing national priority exchanges
• It consists of key domain representatives and
  authoritative stakeholders
• Consists of DOJ CIO, DHS CIO, Global Justice

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Policy Advisory Panel

• The Policy Advisory Panel is responsible for
• Providing policy guidance to PMO
• Supporting NIEM at Federal, State and Local
  levels
• Securing policy, financial and operational
  support
• Consists of Pat McCreary, DOJ
• Bob Greeves, DOJ
• Paul Garrett, DOJ

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Program Management Office

• The PMO is responsible for
• Executing the vision established by the ESC
• Managing day-to-day operation of NIEM
• Encouraging the adoption and use of NIEM
• Managing committee activities (NBAC, NTAC,
  NCOC)
• Coordinating with COIs and principal
  stakeholders
• Coordinating with other info sharing
  initiatives
• (e.g., PM-ISE)
• Consists of
• CEO - DOJ Chief Architect (Kshemendra Paul)
• Director of Outreach(Thomas OReilly, BJA)

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NIEM Business Architecture Committee

• NBAC is responsible for
• Advising and supporting the NIEM PMO on
  operational and business issues associated with
  NIEM development and implementation
• Building NIEM Core components
• Managing, harmonizing, and re-using NIEM
  components across domains and COIs
• Development and implementation of processes to
  ensure that NIEM meets the diverse and evolving
  business needs of relevant domains and COIs and
• Expanding the scope of NIEM to incorporate
  additional domains and COIs to reflect the
  evolution and expansion of NIEM.
• Consists of Chair, Paul Embley, Contractor to
  DHS
• Domain Representatives, domain governance
  bodies

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NIEM Communications and Outreach

• NCOC is responsible for
• Ensuring information regarding NIEM is
  consistently and effectively presented to key
  decision makers
• Serving as a central point of contact for users,
  developers, and those interested in learning more
  about NIEM, and enabling their active
  participation
• Regularly assessing the needs of current and
  potential stakeholders, identifying appropriate
  communication channels and mechanisms, and
  delivering audience-specific messaging tailored
  to the strategic directions established by the
  ESC and the NIEM PMO
• Building mechanisms to enable a broad array of
  diverse users to have an active and persuasive
  voice in the direction and operations of the NIEM
  program
• Advising the NIEM PMO on strategies for engaging
  new COIs
• Consists of Chair Paul Wormeli, IJIS
  Institute
• domain representatives

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NIEM Technical Architecture Committee

• NTAC is responsible for
• Ensuring robust and effective development of the
  NIEM Core structure, technical architecture and
  processes to support NIEM and enable users to
  efficiently use and re-use NIEM components and
  NIEM-conformant IEPDs
• Providing the technical support, tools and
  methodologies to implement the business-driven
  exchanges proposed by NBAC
• Advising the NIEM PMO in the development and
  enhancement of tools that will facilitate broad
  based use and implementation of NIEM
• Ensuring that all content in NIEM appropriately
  conforms to the NIEM architecture, NDR and best
  practices
• Reconciling data security, privacy, and
  sensitivity issues through technical solutions
  that enable data sharing among key domains,
  stakeholders, and COIs
• Consists of Co chairs Jeremy Warren, DOJ
• Tom Clarke, National Center for State Courts
• GTRI, Technical representatives,

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National Priority Exchange Panel

• NPEP is responsible for
• Facilitating the development of national priority
  exchanges, focused on the CTISS for the PM ISE
  Terrorist Watchlist and Suspicious Activity
  Reporting
• Identifying new priority exchanges for
  consideration by the ESC
• (Still under development)
• Consists of CoChair, DHS EDMO, Donna
  Roy CoChair, DHS IA, Deborah Draxler
• DOJ, 2 reps
• DNI, 2 reps
• PMISE, 1 rep
• Global Justice, 1 rep
• State/Local, 1 rep

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To Build the National Model
NIEM Technical Architecture Committee
(Define technical implementation)
NIEM Business Architecture Committee
(negotiate model content for core data elements)

• Domain XML Structure Task Force

(Recommendations)

• Domain XML Structure Task Force

• Domain XML Structure Task Force

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Building the Exchanges

• Create a scenario to define the need for
  information sharing between organizations
• Define the requirements including the data
  components that should be included
• Use the data component standards from NIEM to
  design the exchange, extending them where needed
• Document the exchange using technology standards
• Implement the exchange

Scenario Planning
Requirements Analysis
Data Mapping
Publish and Implement
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Closing

• Questions
• Next Steps