Paul Wormeli Executive Director IJIS Institute February 28, 2005 GJXDM Executive Briefing

IJIS Institute  Non-profit corporation –120 involved companies; formed in April, 2001 – Funding by Bureau of Justice Assistance – Focus on law enforcement and justice information sharing  Programs –Technology assistance and training –Research and Development on information sharing –Advice and assistance to BJA and other national initiatives and programs on standards, policies, etc.

The Information Sharing Challenge  Wireless nationwide information exchanges

Inquiry and response—external databases  Queries on people, vehicles, guns, property to state justice/DMV and NCIC data bases  Queries to local or county RMS or warrant repositories  Queries to local or county, or commercial supporting systems—permits, hazmat, tax, finance, personnel  Queries to licensing and registration systems.  De-confliction  Support for NCIC 2000 concepts

Knowledge Management  Localized data on contacts, businesses, resources, schools, universities, military installations  Crime mapping and analysis  Premise information including hazards  Support for problem oriented policing  Floor Plans  Policy and Procedures, Legal and other reference material

Information Acquisition  Preparation and submission of incident, accident, citation, preliminary arrest and other reports  Transmission of reports to RMS  2-Way link and transmission of video, images, fingerprints  External ID Devices, e.g. Card Reader, Bar Coding

Industry Involvement in the GJXDM  Industry review and endorsement  Support for standards development –Industry representatives on policy and technical committees—Global working groups –Participation in functional system standards  GJXDM Technical Assistance and Training  GJXDM Performance and Scalability tests  Conformant software development

Technical Assistance and Training  On-site courses (XML “101”, security, data mining, web services/SOA  Company-neutral, on-site technology assessment and advice on strategic directions/architecture/standards  GTTAC developer’s training program  Roadmap for Information Sharing regional seminars Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance

GJXDM Training and Technical Assistance Committee (GTTAC)  Developer training programs  Reference document development  Technical assistance  National help desk  Knowledge management system IJIS Institute SEARCH NLECTCGTRI NCSC RISS LEITSC NLETS XSTFJISP

GJXDM National Users’ Conference  June 8-10, Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta  Recognition of project accomplishments  User interaction in break-out sessions  Refresher training and update  Details to be announced on OJP web site

Performance and Scalability Research  Research designed by stakeholder committee and conducted by the George Washington University  Raw validation is time consuming but post- testing deployment can be done without significant impact on infrastructure with adherence to development guidelines  Conformance guidelines are sound and ensure best performance

Examples of conformant GJXDM Deployment

Maricopa County CJIS  Automation of arrest and booking information exchange serving multiple disciplines  Phoenix Police Department, Maricopa County Sheriffs Office, Maricopa County ICJIS and the Arizona Department of Public Safety

Regional Information Sharing  Unified Port of San Diego, Los Angeles Port Police, Los Angeles County Sheriff share data with the San Diego Harbor Police Department (HPD)  Pulls information from 7 disparate data sources to share among agencies

Ohio statewide police network  Information exchange among 900 separate police information systems enabled by GJXDM—statewide interoperability  Funded by pooling DHS grant funds  Negotiated implementation making COTS products conform to GJXDM with major vendors in Ohio Tiburon-Emergitech-VisionAir…..

Syracuse PD  Mobile computer based incident reporting  17 cities, County Sheriff share information on criminal incidents  Fully conformant to the GJXDM  Real time access to incident data  Expanding to other counties in central NY

COTS Product Empowerment  Police and court case management software vendors adopt GJXDM as a no- cost standard offering  Non-compliant interfaces add extra cost

Industry View of GJXDM  Open standards such as XML and GJXDM will: –Radically reduce cost to governments –Reduce the risk to vendors –Expedite information sharing development –Increase customer satisfaction  Wide-spread adoption of XML-based exchange models is a national imperative