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Success Stories

The value of information-sharing and exchange efforts can best be achieved through the active participation and collaboration of the many organizations involved in serving our nation and the world.

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The value of information-sharing and exchange efforts can best be achieved through the active participation and collaboration of the many organizations involved in serving our nation and the world.

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  • Emergency Operation Center—Interconnectivity (EOC-i)

    Emergency Management
    2009

    Effective response to large incidents requires real-time collaboration among multiple agencies and jurisdictions. Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), activated during an incident, use many different systems to support operations and situational awareness. Most EOCs are neither interoperable nor interconnected, which makes it very difficult to coordinate resources and inform the decision makers. The EOC-interconnectivity (EOC-I) project defined a set of data exchanges for requesting and responding to incident and resource information enacted and acquired during the incident. The NIEM-conformant

  • Washington Justice Information System

    Justice

    The state created a NIEM 2.0-conformant IEPD for Driver's License Photo Sharing to provide law enforcement access to photos for positive identification.

  • Virginia Communications Centers: External Alarm IEPD Exchange

    Emergency Management Justice

    The Public Safety Data Interoperability Program created an External Alarm IEPD to provide a standard data exchange for electronically transmitting information between an alarm monitoring company and a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The IEPD created was first GJXDM-conformant, and was recently upgraded to NIEM 2.0 at the City of Richmond.

  • Virginia Communications Centers: External Alarm IEPD Exchange

    Emergency Management Justice

    The Public Safety Data Interoperability Program created an External Alarm IEPD to provide a standard data exchange for electronically transmitting information between an alarm monitoring company and a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The IEPD created was first GJXDM-conformant, and was recently upgraded to NIEM 2.0 at the City of Richmond.

  • U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

    Intelligence

    OFAC has embraced NIEM as a universal data standard to help ensure the data types it manages, including maintaining lists of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), which are now available in a single, consistent format.