NIEM Newsletter
NIEM Fellows Selected
The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Program Management Office (PMO) has announced the selection of three staff members to serve the three primary operational committees that comprise the core governance of NIEM.
A fellowship has been offered to three individuals to provide the senior management support for the NIEM Business Architecture Committee (NBAC), the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC), and the NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee (NC&OC). Each fellow will be the leader responsible for providing staff services to the committee, managing and tracking committee action plans, issues resolution, and operational decision-making activities. The responsibilities include staging and reporting on committee meetings, following up on committee decisions, and preparing materials in support of the committee charter for decisions and actions. More information on NIEM can be found at www.niem.gov.
Each fellow will serve for 12 months as the chief support manager to the respective NIEM committees. They will take sabbaticals from their respective organizations and become employees of the IJIS Institute, a nonprofit company focused on improving information sharing among communities of interest that support public safety, justice, and homeland security missions.
The fellowship program was designed to engage highly qualified and experienced individuals from both industry and government to help improve and expand the usefulness of NIEM to all levels of government and industry as a tool for facilitating information sharing.
The following individuals have been selected as the recipients of the NIEM fellowships:
NBAC Fellow—James Pingel
Mr. Pingel is currently the director of Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing (WIJIS) for the State of Wisconsin, Office of Justice Assistance. The WIJIS program is an initiative to ensure public safety by improving the integration and interoperability of the many disparate information systems in use by police, prosecutors, and courts in Wisconsin's justice community.
Mr. Pingel serves as the vice chairman of the Justice Information Sharing Practitioners (JISP) Board of Directors. Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), JISP is the national organization that serves as the "Voice of the Practitioner" to advance justice information sharing and systems integration in the United States.
Mr. Pingel has his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Wisconsin, La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and his bachelor of arts in public administration from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.
NTAC Fellow—Pisey Frederick
Ms. Frederick is currently a technical manager at SRA International, Inc., Rosslyn, Virginia. She has 11 years of experience in information technology, including seven years of experience using SOA/Web Services Specification, such as XML Schema/XSLT/SOAP/WS-Addressing/WSDL, in the implementation of Web/SOA-based services. She has experience with various and related data model standards such as Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), ANSI/NIST ITL, EFTS/EBTS, and NIEM.
Ms. Frederick authored and implemented a biometric interface messaging format standard using XML/ SOAP technology, the US-VISIT (IDENT) Exchange Messages (IXM) Specification, an SOA-based standards application profile/GJXDM IEPD-based messaging structure. This standard is used by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/US-VISIT, Border Patrol, DHS/CBP/CIS/USCG, and external partnering agencies such as DOJ, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and Department of State (DOS). She also serves as the technical point of contact on Electronic Fingerprint/Biometric Transmission Specification (EFTS/EBTS) and IXM for DHS/US-VISIT and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/IAFIS interoperability.
Ms. Frederick has served as a project leader for the EPA/ENERGY STAR and the DoD/DMDC/DEERS ADR/ADW projects where she directed Java/J2EE/XML and Oracle development teams through the development effort from design to deployment of Web services for multiple clients.
Ms. Frederick has her M.S. in software engineering from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S. in management information systems from the School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
NC&OC Fellow—Russell Moody
Mr. Moody has over 30 years of experience in the areas of project management, including CMMI, systems and information engineering, intelligence analysis, and electronic warfare modeling and simulation. His recent experience includes cross-domain information access and exchange standards development, information modeling, and XML development. In his current position as Senior Information Systems Engineer, Science Applications International Corporation, he is focused on homeland security and defense information interoperability standards including development and application of NIEM.
Mr. Moody is a retired Air Force officer (1968–1988) and has past experience in metadata modeling and data exchange developments for the Air Force and the U.S. Department of Defense, including the DoD XML Registry and ANSI/GEIA-836, Configuration Management—Data Exchange and Interoperability.
Now Available: NIEM Executive Briefing Webinar Coupled with Live Question and Answer Session
A NIEM Executive Briefing, sponsored by DOJ and DHS, was delivered via the Web on November 14, 2007. Presenters included Paul Wormeli, Kshemendra Paul, and Bob Greeves. More than 100 individuals from public and private agencies and organizations around the country participated. The live session was recorded and is now available on www.NIEM.gov for anyone to access at any time.
As a follow-up and enhancement to this briefing, executives from the State of Connecticut Judicial Information Technology group gathered and viewed the Executive Briefing Webinar. Immediately following that session, individuals representing the NIEM PMO and NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee (NC&OC) were on hand to answer any questions via conference call.
Members of the NC&OC are available to provide similar support should your agency or organization wish to conduct a Web-based Executive Briefing (EB), with a live question and answer session immediately following. Should you have any questions about the Executive Briefing or wish to set up a post-EB conference call, please send an e-mail to training@ijis.org.
US-VISIT Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program is implementing an Extensible Markup Language (XML)/Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interface specification that allows external stakeholders a means for accessing services provided by the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT). The interface defined is the IDENT Exchange Message (IXM) Specification, an SOA-based standards application profile focused on biometric interface messaging format and a Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) IEPD-based messaging structure. IXM is based on a subset of GJXDM version 3.0.3. I XM Specification was developed based primarily on the DHS/US-VISIT Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative, which uses XML, SOAP, and other SOA-based standards to meet Global Enrollment System (GES) Credentialing, DOS 10-print pilot project, and IDENT/Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Interim Data Sharing Model (iDSM). This standard is now used by DHS/US-VISIT and external partnering agencies such as DOJ and DOS).
Upcoming NIEM Training: Sacramento, California, January 22–25, 2008
The Introduction to XML and NIEM Practical Implementer’s courses are being presented in Sacramento, California, on January 22–25, 2008. The training has been updated to include critical information on 2.0 and will include instruction on migration, using NIEM, and will include an Information Exchange Package Documentation exercise based on a migration case study.
Other upcoming NIEM trainings include:
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February 11–15: Ashburn, Virginia— scheduled for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Service Division
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February 25–29: Salt Lake County, Utah
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March 17–21: Ashburn, Virginia—National Training (open to the public)
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March 24–28: Houston, Texas
For further information or questions about NIEM training, please contact training@ijis.org for further information.