National Interoperability Information Exchange

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National Interoperability Information Exchange

• Overview
• The National Public Safety Telecommunications
  Council (NPSTC) is a federation of 15
  organizations whose mission is to improve public
  safety communications and interoperability
  through collaborative leadership (www.NSPTC.org)
• NSPTC provides the web-based, secure NIIX service
  (www.NIIX.org) to assist the public safety
  community in the development and sharing of
  statewide communications interoperability plans
  and other interoperable communications-related
  documentation.

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• What is NIIX?
• Centralized access to peer-supplied documents,
  including various plans, agreements, governance,
  policy, legislation, SOPs, funding and other
  useful documents
• Ability for members to submit documents to a
  national repository for sharing with peers
• Security and authentication ensures that only
  members with appropriate authorization have
  access to sensitive documents
• Contact list of other NIIX community members
• Calendar and event announcements

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Membership

• Why become a member?
• Access to documents
• Private workspace
• Peer network
• Eligibility
• Emergency Responders
• Homeland Security Officials
• Contractors who can provide proof that they
  are working for a state or local entity on
  interoperable communications

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www.NIIX.org
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Communities
One of the useful collaborative features of NIIX
is the ability for members to associate
themselves into communities. You can also get a
list of all the Communities that are on the NIIX
site by clicking on the right hand side of the
page above the national map.
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Communities
This is the Four Corners Community Home page.
Every member of the Community sees this page,
complete with calendar, announcements, and
documents. Email notifications may be sent to
the Community with a document upload or as an
individual message.
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Communities
This is how Hawaii has set up their SCIP
Community. They currently have 134 documents
that they are sharing among 58 Community members.
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Categories
Users are able to Access Documents Via
Categories. These Categories, which are similar
to folders, can be organized in a way that users
will be able to drill-down to the appropriate
file.
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Document Listing
The Documents List shows all the documents that
are found within a community. This list can be
sorted by any of the column headers that are in
blue. If a users wants to only view documents
from one category that category can be selected
on the left navigation bar.
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Comments
Clicking on Comments will bring up the list of
comments that have already been entered for that
document or will be blank if no comments have yet
been entered. Once a Coordinator has posted a
document to the Community, any member of the
Community can make comments regarding that
document. To add a comment, you simply begin
typing in the Comment box.
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Features Benefits

• Secure
• Only Public Safety Users and their appointees
• On-line File Storage With Commenting
• Collaborative Document Review
• Allows Users to post documents
• Centralized source for projects
• No file size limit!
• Support That Is Readily Available
• Via Telephone (toll free), Email, or Mail
• No Spam
• Coordinators Control

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Features Benefits

• Funded by DHS no user fees
• Efficient And Easy To Use
• Fast Community Switching
• Easy notification of new documents
• Categorized Calendar
• Coordinator Controlled
• Easily browse other Communities and ask
  Coordinator for entry
• Direct Connection with other Public Safety users
  throughout the Nation

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• How Can You Use NIIX?
• Committee Coordination
• Region-wide Sharing for Response
• Training
• Joint Response Planning
• Standard Operating Procedure Generation
• Local Document Sharing
• FTP
• And More

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• Questions?
• Thank You
• Contact Information
• www.NIIX.org
• Support_at_niix.org
• www.NPSTC.org
• Toll Free 866.807.4755