# Presentation: 366182

## NCRC Technology Vision & Framework

- March 14, 2006

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## Agenda

- NCRC Integrated Planning & Coordination
- IT Coordination
- Identified Priority Initiatives
- NCRC IT Team Focus
- NCRC Timeline

## NCRC IT Coordination efforts

- I**nformation Sharing** **& Collaboration**
- Baseline Assessment
- Interoperability of Regional Ops / Fusion Centers
**Data, Communications, & IT Fusion Initiatives**
- CIO Interoperability Coordination
- Common Incident Management / Situational Awareness
- Collaborative Enterprise Management
**Emergency Support Functions Coordination**
- Transportation, communications, emergency management, mass care, public health and medical service, energy, public safety ...

## NCRC IT Team focus

- Enterprise Architecture
- Collaboration and Coordination
- Assessment
- Interoperability
- Protocol
- Synchronization

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Enterprise Architecture: **Aligning business strategies at the Federal, Regional, State, and Local levels with IT Strategies.
- Federal CIO Council & Inter-Agency Committees
- DHS Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence
- Preparedness Requirements Board
- State Interoperability Committees
- Washington Council of Governments - Technology Councils /Subcommittees
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Develop common regional information sharing and collaboration frameworks, to include determining roles, responsibilities and protocols

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Collaboration & Coordination**: Advocate and facilitate efforts to leverage capabilities across all NCR stakeholders.
- Inter-Agency Board
- Quad-State Interoperability Initiative
- Joint Forces Headquarters-NCR
- Urban Area Security Initiatives (UASI)
- ESFs - Law Enforcement Technology, Water Resource, Transportation, Communications
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Enhance resource leveraging opportunities of the ESF committee by providing staff and secretarial support and facilitation and direction.–(Publish and raise awareness of all grant timelines).

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Assessment**: Joint effort to determine existing IT capabilities across 3 levels of government and 19 jurisdictions.
- Capabilities Assessment
- Technology Assessment
- Application Inventory
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Conduct gap analysis, develop recommendations and take appropriate actions

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Interoperability**: Ensure seamless exchange of information (voice and data) across all levels of government and jurisdictions.
- Fusion Centers/OP Centers
- Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN)
- WebEOC
- Network and Data Exchange
- Critical-infrastructure Warning Information  Network (CWIN)
- NCR I-Net
- Data Exchange Hub
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Establish or enhance a “system of systems” for emergency warning, alert & notification, and continuing information

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Protocols – Detection & Communication **
**Detection**
- Multiple Legacy Systems – Fixed & Mobile
- Individual Program & System Approach
**Communication –**GIS/Reverse-911 type systems
- Alert Notification (Self-Enrollment)
- Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS)
- Emergency & Early Warning Notification Network
- National/Washington Alert Warning Systems
- 311/511 Travel Alert Radio Systems
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Develop coordinated & standardized protocols for realtime, seamless, consistent communication with regional partners during an emerging, dynamic incident.

## NCR IT Initial focus

**Synchronization**: Orchestrate IT efforts across multi-jurisdictions to achieve common goals.
- First Responder Partnership Initiative
- Sensors/Layered Defense
- GIS Foundation Layer
- HHS IT Council
- Water Resources
_**NCR Priority Initiative**_: Develop and implement an integrated plan related to health surveillance, detection and mitigation functions between NCR Partners

## Timeline

**Baseline, quick successes &**
** ****gap analysis**

**Funded programs, deployment w/in 24m**

**Emerging programs, funding & planning w/in 36m**

- BLK I

- Block II

- Block III

- Block IV

**Emerging technologies, S&T, R&D**

- 0

- 12

- 12

- 24

- 24

- 36

- 36

- Enterprise Architecture

- Protocol

- Assessment

- Collaboration & Coord.

- Interoperability

- Synchronization

**Notes:**
This is a timeline that shows what steps occur in what time frames for the National Capital Region. They show 4 blocks. The activities are as follows:
In Block 1 from months 0-12 they are trying to achieve baseline, quick successes and gap analysis
In block 2 from 12 – 24 months they are looking at funded programs and deployment within 24 hours
Block 3 from month 24-23 shows emerging programs, funding and planning within 36 months
Block 4 from month 36 forward shows emerging technologies, Science and Technology and Research and Development

In addition, these 6 activities occur or run through different phases as follows:
Assessment: through the first 8 months of Block 1
Protocol: Through Block 1
Ineroperability: Through blocks 1 and 2
Synchronization: through blockes 1, 2 and 3
And finally though all of the blocks are Enterprise Architecture and Collaboration and Coordination