GAC Success Story:Progress Through Partnership Nlets and the FBI
Hurricane Katrina: Lessonslearned – benefits gained.
•National systems providing critical dataservices to the same set of customersneed to work together
Since Katrina Nlets and FBI found technicalsolutions and policy/procedures to provideredundancy for each others network
Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Massachusetts,Mississippi, Maryland, New York, - Tested
Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, South Dakota,South Carolina, Tennessee, Delaware andNevada - scheduled.
Benefits derived
•Improved bilateral communication
•Saved costs for the FBI
•Increased bandwidth for Nlets
•Enhanced public relations with mutualcustomers
•Powerful network recovery/redundancyfor all both Nlets and FBI customers
Building National Standards -together
•Working together for our mutualcustomers
XML/NIEM
Webservices
Joint Task Force on Rapsheetstandardization
Collaborating on 2007 ANSI-NIST biometricspecification in XML
Nlets and XML/NIEM
•Nlets is a key participant in the Global XMLStructure Task Force and helped to developthe GJXDM
•Nlets provides technical assistance andtraining on GJXDM and NIEM to the states
•Nlets supports implementation of GJXDM andNIEM with its annual XML ImplementersConference
•Nlets will transform between NIEM andGJXDM to help states with migration
FBI and XML/NIEM
•FBI has increased participation in the GlobalXML Structure Task Force & the NIEMBusiness Architecture Committee
•FBI has invited Nlets staff to participate in itsXML Schema reviews
•FBI has been charged by its users to developa Message Versioning Policy to define howfuture versions of NIEM/GJXDM will beimplemented
Webservices
•Nlets and the FBI are holding jointmeetings on the further development ofwebservice specifications forstate/customer implementations
Nlets has been offering Webservices
FBI is developing Webservices Pilots forlimited existing services
Potentially piloting with Nlets
Working together to ensure a commonapproach
Joint task force on Rapsheetstandardization
•Nlets CHIEF Project (BJS Funded)
Develop strategies and tools to transform between GJXDMand NIEM
Combine forces with FBI - Joint Task Force in thedevelopment of a Next Generation Rap Sheet with additionalcontent and presentation formatting
Develop Service Oriented Architectural frameworks in the pilotstates
Provide comprehensive statistics to support crime preventionand recidivism efforts
Document “Lessons Learned “and recommend extensionsand/or revisions to the NIEM
Collaborating on 2007 ANSI-NISTbiometric specification in XML
•FBI has facilitated an effort to develop anXML version of the 2007 ANSI-NISTFingerprint Standard
Based upon NIEM Harmony 2.0
About 30 Representatives from Industry,Government, and Nlets participated in anXML Workgroup
IEPD Publication expected in early 2008
Will be a important cornerstone for thedevelopment of the FBI’s Next GenerationIdentification (NGI) Project
The Bottom line…
•The GAC has played an important role inbringing the FBI and Nlets together toimplement and pioneer the use of GACnational standards
•Collaboration, communication,implementation for a common goal
