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NIEM Conformance
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The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is the joint product of multiple United States Government Departments including: Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services. At the core, NIEM aims to develop, filter, and exchange information utilizing common standards.
With regards to emergency management, information exchange is critical both between systems and between jurisdictions and thus PARTS has been designed to be fully NIEM conformant. Entities utilizing PARTS can confidently share resource information (resource typing), human resource information (first responders), incident information, and more seamlessly across their internal systems and externally as needed to manage larger emergency scenarios.
This NIEM conformant system consists of two internally developed executable IEPDs: Resource Typing Management (RTM) and First Responder Credentialing (FRC). Both IEPDs have been vetted and approved by NIEM PMO listed under the Emergency Domain as a critical part of its backend and interoperability structure.
Full NIEM conformance enables PARTS to immediately interact, manage, communicate, and aid in response activities in any Emergency Operating Center or similar. To date, exchanges with command systems, dispatch systems, human credentials databases, and modeling and simulation tools have been completed utilizing the common NIEM standards built into PARTS. This ability was recently displayed during the National Level Exercise 2011 based in Washington DC which had participating field offices from multiple FEMA regions utilizing PARTS and reported favorable results during a catastrophic emergency response scenario.
For more information about NIEM please visit http://niem.gov/
To view the PARTS IEPD's (RTM and FRC) please continue to the download page on this website and follow the simple instructions to download the submitted package.
RTM IEPD
The resource management lifecycle consist of two primary components: managing resources as part of preparedness and managing resources during an incident. The processes involved during the preparedness activities are conducted on a continual basis to ensure resources are ready to be mobilized when called to action. These processes are resource typing, credentialing of personal, resource inventorying, resource requirements, resource ordering, resource mobilizing, resource tracking and reporting, resource recovery, and resource fee reimbursement. During an incident, resource management is a finite process with a distinct beginning and ending point. In addition, during an incident resource management includes catering to the particular and unique needs specific to that incident whereas preparedness is more generic or general. Once an incident is resolved lessons learned then become part of the preparedness lifecycle should a similar situation arise. Throughout the resource management lifecycle, whether incident management or preparedness activities, information exchanges are critical to and from providers, first responders, and other various emergency personnel.
For more information please visit the download page of this site to register for an account and download the IEPD master documentation.
FRC IEPD
The First Responder Credentialing Information Exchange Package Documentation (FRC IEPD) develops a common data model that may be used as a national standard to exchange first responder attributes related to professional qualifications, certifications, training, physical/medical fitness and education requirements which are the baseline criteria needed for first responders to be deployed to incident sites; Solicits input from points of contact in relevant standards bodies and stakeholders at the local, state, federal, and national levels in the First Responder Community to enhance the exchange model; Harmonizes IEPD product with NIEM, NIMS, NIST and FIPS 201 standards, and leverages the work from ongoing related projects.
First Responder Credentialing IEPD provides Emergency Management stakeholders, practitioners, and other DHS agencies the ability to understand and share the FRC process and the data elements. For example, the data for emergency personnel must include job title and associated credentials such as education, training, experience, physical/medical fitness, certification and licensing. It is imperative that these data be made available across jurisdictional, organizational, and federal, tribal, local and state lines to promote efficient and accurate use of emergency response human resources.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) activities associated with this IEPD support the NIMS, NIEM, and NIST data exchange standards related to Data Models. NIEM was chosen as the preferred standard for DHS information exchanges. The Home Land Security (HLS) EA mandates that all services utilize schemas that comply with NIEM exchange standards in conformance with the DHS Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Framework document. NIEM provides the requisite schemas and reference dictionaries to enable information exchanges. The DHS SOA Strategic Focus Group also approved the use of NIEM for SOA information exchange and for documenting input and output data elements in the form of an IEPD.
For more information please visit the download page of this site to register for an account and download the IEPD master documentation.
The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is the joint product of multiple United States Government Departments including: Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services. At the core, NIEM aims to develop, filter, and exchange information utilizing common standards.
With regards to emergency management, information exchange is critical both between systems and between jurisdictions and thus PARTS has been designed to be fully NIEM conformant. Entities utilizing PARTS can confidently share resource information (resource typing), human resource information (first responders), incident information, and more seamlessly across their internal systems and externally as needed to manage larger emergency scenarios.
This NIEM conformant system consists of two internally developed executable IEPDs: Resource Typing Management (RTM) and First Responder Credentialing (FRC). Both IEPDs have been vetted and approved by NIEM PMO listed under the Emergency Domain as a critical part of its backend and interoperability structure.
Full NIEM conformance enables PARTS to immediately interact, manage, communicate, and aid in response activities in any Emergency Operating Center or similar. To date, exchanges with command systems, dispatch systems, human credentials databases, and modeling and simulation tools have been completed utilizing the common NIEM standards built into PARTS. This ability was recently displayed during the National Level Exercise 2011 based in Washington DC which had participating field offices from multiple FEMA regions utilizing PARTS and reported favorable results during a catastrophic emergency response scenario.
For more information about NIEM please visit http://niem.gov/
To view the PARTS IEPD's (RTM and FRC) please continue to the download page on this website and follow the simple instructions to download the submitted package.
RTM IEPD
The resource management lifecycle consist of two primary components: managing resources as part of preparedness and managing resources during an incident. The processes involved during the preparedness activities are conducted on a continual basis to ensure resources are ready to be mobilized when called to action. These processes are resource typing, credentialing of personal, resource inventorying, resource requirements, resource ordering, resource mobilizing, resource tracking and reporting, resource recovery, and resource fee reimbursement. During an incident, resource management is a finite process with a distinct beginning and ending point. In addition, during an incident resource management includes catering to the particular and unique needs specific to that incident whereas preparedness is more generic or general. Once an incident is resolved lessons learned then become part of the preparedness lifecycle should a similar situation arise. Throughout the resource management lifecycle, whether incident management or preparedness activities, information exchanges are critical to and from providers, first responders, and other various emergency personnel.
For more information please visit the download page of this site to register for an account and download the IEPD master documentation.
FRC IEPD
The First Responder Credentialing Information Exchange Package Documentation (FRC IEPD) develops a common data model that may be used as a national standard to exchange first responder attributes related to professional qualifications, certifications, training, physical/medical fitness and education requirements which are the baseline criteria needed for first responders to be deployed to incident sites; Solicits input from points of contact in relevant standards bodies and stakeholders at the local, state, federal, and national levels in the First Responder Community to enhance the exchange model; Harmonizes IEPD product with NIEM, NIMS, NIST and FIPS 201 standards, and leverages the work from ongoing related projects.
First Responder Credentialing IEPD provides Emergency Management stakeholders, practitioners, and other DHS agencies the ability to understand and share the FRC process and the data elements. For example, the data for emergency personnel must include job title and associated credentials such as education, training, experience, physical/medical fitness, certification and licensing. It is imperative that these data be made available across jurisdictional, organizational, and federal, tribal, local and state lines to promote efficient and accurate use of emergency response human resources.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) activities associated with this IEPD support the NIMS, NIEM, and NIST data exchange standards related to Data Models. NIEM was chosen as the preferred standard for DHS information exchanges. The Home Land Security (HLS) EA mandates that all services utilize schemas that comply with NIEM exchange standards in conformance with the DHS Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Framework document. NIEM provides the requisite schemas and reference dictionaries to enable information exchanges. The DHS SOA Strategic Focus Group also approved the use of NIEM for SOA information exchange and for documenting input and output data elements in the form of an IEPD.
For more information please visit the download page of this site to register for an account and download the IEPD master documentation.