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.
The Temporary Resident Biometrics Project (TRBP) was delivered through a partnership of three Canadian government departments—Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)—and the United States Citizenship and Immigration...
The City of Richmond has partnered with alarm monitoring companies to create the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), which provides an automated method for the rapid exchange of data between alarm monitoring companies and 9-1-1 public safety answering points. The NIEM-conformant ASAP reduces...
The New York State Justice Center is a joint program supported by New York State Information Technology Services, State Education Department, Department of Health, Office for Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Office for Children and Family Services, Office of Mental Health, and Behavioral...
State and local law enforcement agencies were using agency-specific IT systems. Over the past five years, the team created the Iowa Criminal Justice Information Sharing (CJIS) Project by adding a Service Oriented Architecture superstructure on top of, in between and separate from these agency...
By collaborating on a customized toolkit that coached counties on law enforcement best practices, 33 independently run counties in Pennsylvania now use NIEM schema for case management. The result of the Pennsylvania Data Quality Framework Project (DQ2) is an average improvement of 271 percent in...
The U.S. Department of State’s Office of Consular Systems and Technology keeps one of the largest databases in government, growing by two terabytes each month. The office has overcome multiple data exchange challenges in validating identity through using Service-Oriented Architecture carrying...
Workstations with dated software applications were replaced by browser-based access using reusable services and standardized NIEM exchanges. The portal relies on a private cloud to process 1.5 million daily transactions. Single queries returning information from up to 14 data sources now connect...
Four jurisdictions in Virginia (Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax, and Fairfax County) sharing emergency equipment since the 1970s previously determined "closest unit" availability by a series of phone calls between dispatch centers. Using the Northern Virginia CAD2CAD...
Each year, presidentially declared disasters result in injury and death, destroy homes and businesses, and disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation. Using NIEM as the foundation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created the Disaster Assistance...
CONNECT is a consortium of five states that have agreed to pool their collective expertise to make interstate information sharing a reality. New York City's Health and Human Service (HHS) agencies serve more than 2 million clients.
Before the HHS-Connect program, case workers were...
