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| Justice Reference Architecture (JRA) Services Project |
| The IJIS Institute was awarded a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, USDOJ to develop JRA Reference Service Specifications in partnership with the National Center for State Courts and The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics (SEARCH). This project involves using JRA standards and guidelines for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) created by The Global Information Sharing Initiative’s (Global) Infrastructure/Standards Working Group to identify and document a reference set of services that Fusion Centers and other organizations can use to share information among one another. In particular, the project will develop Service Specifications that conform to the JRA Service Specification Guidelines. A Service Specification is a formal document of the capabilities made available through a service; a service model that defines the semantics of the service by describing its behavioral model, information model, and interactions; the policies that constrain the use of a service, and the service interface that provides a means of interaction with the service. A service specification is analogous to the software documentation of an Application Programming Interface (API). The project is steered by The Services Task Team (STT), which includes Industry members and was established by Global to provide guidance on the process for developing Service Specifications using the JRA guidelines. ... |
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| Forensic IEPD Development |
| Under a sub-contract from the National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC), the IJIS Institute is working with various crime labs, investigatory agencies, and court personnel in the development of nationally-acceptable forensic-based IEPDs. |
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| NIEM User Guide |
| The IJIS Institute has been asked to take a lead on the development of the NIEM User Guide. This effort will include creation of a NIEM User Guide that provides instructions to public and private sector technologists in the usage and implementation of NIEM. This initiative will address Volume 1 of the guide: “Guidelines for Building NIEM IEPDs.” The goal of this project is to develop a NIEM User Guide that extends the Concept of Operations to provide practitioners detailed information on how to further develop and use the model. The NIEM User Guide will provide a detailed description of the development of NIEM, an architectural overview, and technical concepts derived from training material and documentation. The User Guide will take the reader further into a methodology for defining the business requirements of the information exchange, as well as an information exchange package (IEP) development process guideline. The User Guide will provide information about tools, resources, partners, terminology, and processes. ... |
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| N-DEx Cost Model Project |
| The FBI’s National Data Exchange program (N-DEx) will provide Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) with a powerful new investigative tool to search, link, analyze and share criminal justice information (e.g., incident and case reports) on a national basis to a degree never before possible. It will allow participating LEAs to detect relationships between people, places, things and crime characteristics, link information across jurisdictions and allow them to “connect the dots” between seemingly unrelated data without information overload. ... |
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| Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) |
| Under funding through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice and the Program Manager of the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the IJIS Institute is provide technical services to implement a SAR Information Sharing Evaluation Environment or SAR-EE. This work, conducted in partnership with the Institute of Intergovernmental Research (IIR), Tetrus Consulting Group LLC and other supporting firms, is working with multiple fusion centers in three States, nine major cities, DHS and the FBI to implement an operational SAR Pilot system. The system will be used to evaluate SAR collection, analysis, evaluation and reporting business processes that are consistent with the National SAR Initiative (NSI) Concept of Operations, the ISE SAR Functional Standard (FS-200) and ISE Guidelines to protect citizen privacy and civil liberties. The Pilot involves the deployment of individual servers and common database repositories based upon the NIEM SAR IEPD that will reside at each fusion center in an environment called a “Shared Space.” Periodically, a fusion center will determine that certain suspicious activity reports meet the ISE criteria to be stored in its Shared Space. Using various technical means based on a center’s information technology infrastructure, designated SAR records will be “pushed” to the Shared Space server and made available to other agencies via a federated query portal hosted by DOJ. Actual information retrieved from individual shared space environments will be transmitted using the LEXS-SR standard. ... |
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| Fusion Center Business Architecture Project |
| Under funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, the IJIS Institute, in collaboration with the Institute of Intergovernmental Research (IIR), is developing a tool to assist Fusion Center management with defining their business architecture framework. This tool, in the form of “how-to guideline” and templates, walks Fusion Center Directors and Managers through the process of analyzing and documenting their business processes and capabilities that support those processes. By utilizing this tool, Directors/Managers will be provided with a “breakdown” of each process that will help define and understand each process. Then, equipped with this breakdown, implementation and technology acquisition (if needed) can be more easily defined. The document includes two examples to illustrate the process – Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR), and Law Enforcement Incident Report Collection and Analysis. Managed by the IJIS Institute, the project committee is comprised of industry representatives, subject matter experts, and practitioners. |
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| SAVIN |
| In October 2004 President Bush signed the Justice for All Act, which provides victims with the right to receive notice of events affecting their offender and their offender’s case. At the state level - nearly 40 states have passed laws, and in some cases, constitutional amendments that assure crime victims access to notifications. ... |
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| Public Safety Data Interoperability (PSDI) Project |
| Under funding from a grant awarded to the IJIS Institute by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, the IJIS Institute is undertaking the Public Safety Data Interoperability (PSDI) project in collaboration with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO). The goal is to support and further the efforts of data interoperability for local public safety including communication centers, law enforcement, fire services and EMS. The project committee will be comprised of practitioners representing communication centers, law enforcement, fire services and EMS, as well as industry representatives. Management of the project will be supplied by both the IJIS Institute and APCO. The current Deliverables include: a Master Exchange List for Local Communication Centers; a User Guide to Information Sharing for Local Communication Centers; and Information Exchange Package Documentation artifacts (IEPDs). The project has already completed an upgrade of the External Alarm Interface Exchange IEPD, available on www.niem.gov. ... |
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| DOT ITS/Public Safety Project |
| Initiated in 2005, the Intelligent Transportation Systems and Public Safety Information Exchange Project (ITS/PS Project) is a collaborative effort between the transportation and public safety communities. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) co-sponsored the project with management support provided by the IJIS Institute. Both the transportation and public safety communities have been developing information exchange standards unique to their own needs and systems. Transportation incident management utilizes standards developed in conjunction with IEEE. In contrast, the public safety community has developed the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), supported by the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) operating under the auspices of the Office of Justice Programs of DOJ. ... |
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| Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs |
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In Fiscal Year 2004, Congress appropriated funds to the U.S. Department of Justice to support the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring programs (PMPs). PMPs are systems controlled by authorized state agencies to collect controlled substance dispensing data in a centralized state database. Designed to help detect and prevent the diversion and abuse of these substances, the programs involve the cooperative efforts of law enforcement, health providers and communities in general. Under funding from a grant awarded to the IJIS Institute by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, the Institute is undertaking a project to help states exchange dispensed controlled-substance prescription data. The problem of multi-state doctor shopping has been identified as a serious national issue, and the means for state and local law enforcement and public health agencies to address the problem is currently not available on a national basis. The objective of the IJIS Institute interstate PMP information exchange (PMIX) project is to develop a methodology and a consensual standard for facilitating the exchange of PMP data among states. The approach being taken will minimize the cost and time of establishing automated information exchanges between disparate systems by taking advantage of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) to produce commonly accepted data definitions and object structures. The IJIS Institute is coordinating this development and making recommendations on behalf of participating states to extend the NIEM where necessary to ensure a common national model. The initiative has been guided by a steering committee comprised of state representatives who have implemented PMP programs, members of the IJIS Institute, and representatives of various Federal interests, including BJA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. ... |
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