GAC Success Story: Progress Through Partnership Nlets and the FBI

Hurricane Katrina: Lessons learned – benefits gained. National systems providing critical data services to the same set of customers need to work together  Since Katrina Nlets and FBI found technical solutions and policy/procedures to provide redundancy for each others network  Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Maryland, New York, - Tested  Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Delaware and Nevada - scheduled.

Benefits derived Improved bilateral communication Saved costs for the FBI Increased bandwidth for Nlets Enhanced public relations with mutual customers Powerful network recovery/redundancy for all both Nlets and FBI customers

Building National Standards - together Working together for our mutual customers  XML/NIEM  Webservices  Joint Task Force on Rapsheet standardization  Collaborating on 2007 ANSI-NIST biometric specification in XML

Nlets and XML/NIEM Nlets is a key participant in the Global XML Structure Task Force and helped to develop the GJXDM Nlets provides technical assistance and training on GJXDM and NIEM to the states Nlets supports implementation of GJXDM and NIEM with its annual XML Implementers Conference Nlets will transform between NIEM and GJXDM to help states with migration

FBI and XML/NIEM FBI has increased participation in the Global XML Structure Task Force & the NIEM Business Architecture Committee FBI has invited Nlets staff to participate in its XML Schema reviews FBI has been charged by its users to develop a Message Versioning Policy to define how future versions of NIEM/GJXDM will be implemented

Webservices Nlets and the FBI are holding joint meetings on the further development of webservice specifications for state/customer implementations  Nlets has been offering Webservices  FBI is developing Webservices Pilots for limited existing services  Potentially piloting with Nlets  Working together to ensure a common approach

Joint task force on Rapsheet standardization Nlets CHIEF Project (BJS Funded)  Develop strategies and tools to transform between GJXDM and NIEM  Combine forces with FBI - Joint Task Force in the development of a Next Generation Rap Sheet with additional content and presentation formatting  Develop Service Oriented Architectural frameworks in the pilot states  Provide comprehensive statistics to support crime prevention and recidivism efforts  Document “Lessons Learned “and recommend extensions and/or revisions to the NIEM

Collaborating on 2007 ANSI-NIST biometric specification in XML FBI has facilitated an effort to develop an XML version of the 2007 ANSI-NIST Fingerprint Standard  Based upon NIEM Harmony 2.0  About 30 Representatives from Industry, Government, and Nlets participated in an XML Workgroup  IEPD Publication expected in early 2008  Will be a important cornerstone for the development of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Project

The Bottom line… The GAC has played an important role in bringing the FBI and Nlets together to implement and pioneer the use of GAC national standards Collaboration, communication, implementation for a common goal

Questions? Steven Correll Jim Gerst