# Presentation: 499855

## Disaster Management eGov Initiative

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

## Program History & Mission

- One of the 24 eGov initiatives established by the President’s Management Agenda
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides program oversight and guidance
- DM program resides in the DHS/FEMA Emergency Planning and Response (EP&R) Directorate
- DHS/FEMA EP&R 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

## Program Components“Three 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

## Who Is InvolvedPractitioner 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 Sheriff’s Association
- National League of Cities
- National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
- National Association of Counties
- National Association of Police Organizations
- International Association of Emergency Managers

## 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

## Incident Management Standards Development Process Flow

- Practitioners identify, prioritize,
- and recommend standards
- for development

- DHS/FEMA
- coordination activities

- DM facilitates draft standards
- with national practitioner groups,
- private industry, DHS supports trials

- Present draft standard
- to recognized
- standards making body(s)

- Recognized standards making
- body(s) will publish standards

- Recognized standards making
- body(s) will review
- and approve standards

- Approved standards
- will be incorporated into DMIS
- and vendor products

## 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

## Plans for this Coming Year

- Further integrate Global’s 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 SAFECOM’s and others Statement of Requirements as applicable for data standards

## Organizations Participating EDXL Standards Process

_**Invited:**_

- Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International (APCO)

- National Emergency Managers Association (NEMA)

- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

## 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)