1. Disaster Management eGov Initiative (DM) Program Overview December 2004

2. 2 Program History & Mission One of the 24 eGov initiatives established by the President’s Management Agenda Supports a multitude of Federal Agency missions including DHS and FEMA missions to reduce the loss of life and property in any phase of a disaster event Supports the Federal mission to provide the Nation a comprehensive, risk-based emergency management program Recipient of multiple awards

3. 3 Program Components “Three Pillars” Portal to information and services (www.DisasterHelp.Gov) Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS) Data exchange standards: Facilitating the creation of information sharing capabilities between disparate incident management software applications

4. 4 Portal to Information and Services Public Emergency Management Community 34,086 Registered Users 3,932 Collaboration Centers Aggregated disaster-related information and services Federal agencies Non-governmental organizations Preparedness & recovery services Secure Authentication driven Permission based 128 bit encryption Multiple tools & resources Collaboration channel Custom tools Document repository

5. 5 Serving the Emergency Management Community 1000 user groups 50 states 67 real incidents 335 exercises Core incident management tool set and shared services Exchange of information across geographical and governmental boundaries Alerts, national maps, specific needs request, and tactical information exchange Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS)

6. 6 Where is DMIS used? = Currently executing state-wide roll-out = States with 10+ User Groups As of 11/23/04: - Total: 1000 User groups - 104 State/Regional User groups (Coverage: 50 States) - 33 DHS & FEMA User groups (Coverage: 8 FEMA Regional Offices) - Total: 142 Federal & National User groups (Coverage: 20 Federal Agencies & Tribal) - 22 NGO User Groups - 46 Vendors Participating in Interoperability 38 85 97 19 20 15 50 34 46 32 54 2 3 17 9 5 7 34 11 10 19 10 918 15 7 1 4 8 2 2 5 9 5 20 27 38 11 12 24 5 8 18 2 70 4 1 - American Samoa (AS) 5 1

7. 7 Incident Management Standards Process Flow Practitioners identify, prioritize, and recommend standards for development DHS/FEMA coordination activities DM facilitates draft standards with national practitioner groups, private industry; DHS supports trials Present draft standard to recognized standards making body(s) Recognized standards making body(s) will publish standards Recognized standards making body(s) will review and approve standards Approved standards will be incorporated into DMIS and vendor products

8. 8 Approach Incident management data standards Public standards Facilitating, not producing –Practitioners define requirements and set priorities –DHS drafts standards based on above –Non Profit Consortium of Vendors implements standards and submits to: –Formal Standards Organizations for approval and publication DHS grants used for incident management software must be for compliant systems National standards driven by practioners, not Federal agencies

9. 9 Where are we today? Practitioner meetings held June 28 & November 3 to gather and update prioritized requirements Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) approved by OASIS in April 2004 Demonstrated Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) “Message Header” standard on October 27, 2004 Draft “Message Header” standard submitted to standards setting organization Begin work on next EDXL standard: “Resource Management”