Disaster Management eGov Initiative

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Disaster Management eGov Initiative

• Program Overview
• Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
• January 7, 2004

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Program History Mission

• One of the 24 eGov initiatives established by the
  Presidents Management Agenda
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides
  program oversight and guidance
• DM program resides in the DHS/FEMA Emergency
  Planning and Response (EPR) Directorate
• DHS/FEMA EPR provides program management
  functions and support
• Supports a multitude of federal agency missions
  including DHS and FEMA missions to reduce the
  loss of life and property in any phase of a
  disaster event
• Supports the federal mission to provide the
  Nation with a comprehensive, accelerated and
  improved quality disaster mitigation and response
  through information sharing capabilities

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Program ComponentsThree Pillars

• Portal to information and services
  (www.DisasterHelp.Gov)
• Disaster Management Interoperability Services
  (DMIS)
• Data exchange standards Facilitating the
  creation of information sharing capabilities
  between disparate incident management software
  applications and devices

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Who Is InvolvedPractitioner organizations
broadly representing the emergency response
community (Local, Tribal, State)

• International Association of Chiefs of Police
  (IACP)
• Association of Public Safety Communications
  Officials (APCO)
• National Emergency Management Association (NEMA)
• International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC)
• International Association of State Emergency
  Medical Services Directors (NASEMSD)
• Cherokee National Health Service
• National Native American Emergency Medical
  Services Association
• International Association of Firefighters
• National Emergency Number Association

• National Governors Association
• International Association of Black Professional
  Firefighters
• Maryland Dept. of Transportation
• International Association of Emergency Managers
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• National Sheriffs Association
• National League of Cities
• National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
• National Association of Counties
• National Association of Police Organizations
• International Association of Emergency Managers

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Governance Structure

• DM established Federal Governance Body with DHS
  Office of Interoperability and Compatibility
  (OIC) as Chairperson
• Federal members
• DHS Office of the CIO
• FEMA Office of the CIO
• National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• SAFECOM
• National Institute of Standards (NIST)
• Department of Justice
• DHS Office of State and Local and Domestic
  Preparedness
• DHS Information Analysis and Information
  Protection
• DHS Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC)
• Governance Structure creates a Practitioner
  driven Executive Board and Advisory Group

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Incident Management Standards Development Process
Flow
Practitioners identify, prioritize, and recommend
standards for development
Approved standards will be incorporated into
DMIS and vendor products
DHS/FEMA coordination activities
Recognized standards making body(s) will publish
standards
DM facilitates draft standards with national
practitioner groups, private industry, DHS
supports trials
Recognized standards making body(s) will
review and approve standards
Present draft standard to recognized standards
making body(s)
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Approach

• Incident management data standards
• Public standards
• Facilitating, not producing
• Practitioners define requirements and set
  priorities
• DHS drafts standards based on above
• Non Profit Consortium of Vendors implements
  standards and submits to the appropriate
• Formal Standards Organization(s) for approval and
  publication (OASIS, ANSI, IEEE. others)
• DM is creating common grant guidance language
• National standards driven by practioners, not
  federal agencies

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Plans for this Coming Year

• Further integrate Globals and others data
  dictionaries
• Begin work on next EDXL standard as defined by
  last practitioner meeting Resource Management
• Submit 6 8 incident management standards for
  processing through the appropriate standards
  organizations
• Leverage SAFECOMs and others Statement of
  Requirements as applicable for data standards

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Organizations Participating EDXL Standards Process
Invited
Association of Public-Safety Communications
Officials International (APCO)
National Emergency Managers Association (NEMA)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
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Organizations Developing to EDXL Standards

• Blue292 (www.blue292.com)
• California Office of Emergency Services
  (www.oes.ca.gov)
• Capital Wireless Integrated Network, know as
  CapWIN (www.capwin.org)
• Comlabs, Inc. (www.comlabs.com)
• Contra Costa County (CA) Office of the Sheriff,
  Emergency Services Division
• Department of Homeland Security (www.dhs.gov)
• Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice
  Programs (OJP) (www.it.ojp.gov)
• Disaster Management Interoperability Services
  (www.dmi-services.org)
• E Team (www.eteam.com)
• GeoDecisions, Inc. (www.geodecisions.com)
• Hormann America, Inc. (www.hormannamerica.com)

• IEM, Inc. (www.ieminc.com)
• mobileFoundations (www.mobilefoundations.com)
• MyStateUSA (www.mystateusa.com)
• National Weather Service (www.weather.gov)
• NDS, Ltd. (www.nds.com)
• NTMI, Inc. (www.ntmi.com)
• Oregon RAINS (www.oregonrains.org)
• Ship Analytics (www.shipanalytics.com)
• United States Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov)
• Virginia Department of Transportation
  (www.virginiadot.org)
• Warning Systems, Inc. (www.warningsystems.com)