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NCR Crisis Information Management System (CIMS) Data Exchange Information Exchange Packet Documentation (IEPD) v0.1

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Purpose and Scope
Proposed Title

NCR Crisis Information Management System (CIMS) Data Exchange (Based upon NIEM v1 beta 2)

Business Purpose This exchange demonstrates the feasibility of sharing incident information between CIMS systems in the Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) within the NCR (such as WebEOC) and other regional and Federal systems (such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), Frederick County, Maryland Office of Emergency Management (OEM) SharePoint portal. The purpose of this IEPD is to describe the exchange development process and provide the artifacts necessary to create a similar exchange.
Contributing Organizations The following organizations contributed data for this exchange:
  • District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency (DCEMA) ;
  • Fairfax County, Virginia Office of Emergency Management (OEM) on behalf of the Northern Virginia (NOVA) WebEOC participants including Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties; cities of Falls Church, Alexandria, Fairfax, Manassas and Manassas Park; and towns of Herndon and Vienna;
  • Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) on behalf of the Maryland WebEOC participants including Frederick County, Montgomery County and Prince George's County.
Consuming Organizations The following organizations are consuming data from this exchange:
  • Frederick County, Maryland OEM;
  • HSIN;
  • Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) on behalf of the Maryland WebEOC participants.
Development

Initially, a technical working group was established with the purpose of developing a strategy to successfully implement a cross-agency pilot operational data exchange using the NCR DEH Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Subsequent technical exchange meetings were held with the various agency partners to refine the business case, develop functional and technical requirements and draft project charter for the exchange. Follow-up meetings were conducted as required to refine sequence diagrams, map data elements from the various systems to NIEM version 1 beta 2 and develop an XML schema, method signatures and WSDL. Finally, the NCR DEH Project team developed the web service.

Artifacts used in implementing and deploying this web service can be found below.
Participants The following organizations participated in the exchange development effort:
  • District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency (DCEMA);
  • Emergency Service Integrators (ESi);
  • Fairfax County, Virginia's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), on behalf of the NOVA WebEOC participants;
  • Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN);
  • Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), on behalf of the Maryland WebEOC participants.
Contact Information
Name
Scott Scheurich
Email
Scott.Scheurich@fairfaxcounty.gov
Phone
703-324-4991
Fax
703-324-2856
Organization
NCRIP
Organization Web Site
http://www.ncrnet.us
Street Address
NCRIP
City
Fairfax
State
VA
Country
USA
Zip Code
22035
Conformance Conforms with:
Target Capabilities
  • Common / Communications
  • Common / Community Preparedness and Participation
  • Common / Intelligence and Information Sharing and Dissemination
  • Prevent / Information Gathering and Recognition of Indicators and Warning
  • Response / Emergency Operations Center Management
  • Response / Emergency Public Safety and Security Response
  • Response / Emergency Public Information and Warning

Additional information on the HSN Target Capabilities is available on the LLIS website.

Feedback
Lessons Learned

Creation of this reference implementation contributed to the validation of, and revision to, the NCR Information Exchange Development Lifecyle.

Suggestions and Recommendations It will be necessary for the Data Exchange Hub to provide central support for the development of exchange schemas across Emergency Support Functions within the NCR and to provide technical assistance in implementing the Exchange Development Process.

Development Artifacts
Title Size Date Posted
CIMS Data Exchange Technical Implementation Guide (available on request) 6.7 MB 31 December 2007
CIMS Exchange NIEM Schema (Zip File) 1.45 MB 21 August 2007
CAP Alert WSDL (CIMS WebEOC to DEH) 14 KB 21 August 2007
HSIN CIMSDocExchange WSDL (DEH to HSIN - development phase) 1.04 MB 21 August 2007
NCR DEH CIMS Data Service WSDL (to DEH - development phase) 2.0 KB 21 August 2007

Metadata
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Updated: 01/28/2011