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What is NIEM? NIEM for me foremost is community.
It is the program that enables community

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to get together to decide to solve an important 
problem and to put in place the processes the  

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the language by which we make movement on some 
of our most important social issues of today.

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Whether it's screening terrorism for the safety of the
United States or finding children in Amber Alerts  

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or even the increasing response time in our fire 
departments, so communities to get together and  

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they decide they want to solve a problem they as 
a community decide how they're going to solve the  

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problem and then they put that into place. It is a 
really powerful community driven program.

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The best way to think about NIEM is through its two 
core components. First it is a Rosetta stone -

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the ability to bring together different 
communities to agree on common terms, policies,  and data  

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definitions. Second it is a process and framework 
for developing common business or functional  

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standards based on common mission equities 
across those same communities and partners.

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When I first started with NIEM, the adoption 
of NIEM was pretty low although the value  

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of NIEM across the government was high and so 
instinctually we had a real strong drive towards  

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increasing adoption. As you see that increased 
adoption take on as communities really take  

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on this as a way to do business you start seeing 
the network effect of just one more agency using  

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it or just one more County organization using 
it, so when I started there were two departments  

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the Department of Justice and the Department of 
Homeland Security who were committed to using  

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NIEM. Today we have 16 federal agencies committed 
to using NIEM and since most of our information  

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exchange comes from the very local environment 
and it goes up and it goes around these are the  

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adoption of NIEM is having this strong network 
effect this strong increase of community has  

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allowed us to increase our capability 
to make decisions in a faster time frame

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It saves lives. It saves lives getting 
that faster information in the hands  

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of operators that need it to 
put resources where they need it.