1. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Achieving Information Interoperability: The Justice Reference Architecture A Global Project Tom Clarke, GISWG Chair October 31, 2007

2. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Global Service-Oriented Architecture On September 29, 2004, the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC) unanimously adopted Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the resulting work effort was tasked to the GISWG.

3. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Two Business Cases for the Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) Business Case #1: To enable state and local agencies to develop information sharing solutions faster, cheaper, and better. Business Case #2: To create standard information sharing services to improve interoperability and business flexibility.

4. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Where are we now? The JRA library is evolving and will contain resources, such as tools, guidelines, standards, and specifications. –The Justice Reference Architecture Specification Working Draft version 1.4 –Web Services Service Interaction Profile version 1.1 –ebXML Service Interaction Profile version 1.0

5. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global What resources are underway? GISWG is… –Providing guidance for technical implementations –Providing guidance on service design and beginning work on reference services –Providing guidance on services governance Draft MOU for information sharing

6. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Who is using the JRA? Pennsylvania –JNET is using in a pilot mode for electronic jail reporting –Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network (CLEAN) is making the JRA a RFP requirement Maine –Using the JRA to design its information sharing architecture Utah –Evaluating use of the framework

7. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Next Steps BJA has tasked IJIS and NCSC to begin work on a set of reference JRA services. The prioritized reference services are for fusion centers and fingerprints. GISWG is aligning and mapping to federal initiatives: –ISE –LEISP –Fusion centers

8. United States Department of Justice www.it.ojp.gov/global Recommendation The GISWG recommends that the GAC adopt the JRA as the justice specific framework for Service-Oriented Architecture –Based on the Global JRA Specification version 1.4 and two Service Interaction Profiles