Disaster Management Overview Presentation

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E- Gov Initiative Overview

December, 2003


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No single source of trusted, validated information is available for citizens andthe emergency management community.

Frustrated with multiple federal sources that provide seemingly conflicting data.

Citizens are unsure about where they should go to find information and services.

Multiple government organizations are maintaining and/or developing overlapping

capabilities.

Many communities do not have the resources to acquire and run incident

management software.

More than 50% of responder organizations do not have digital tools. This is found

true in 50 states, 3,000 counties, 120 high threat cities, and much of the Federal

government.

Incident management software packages in the marketplace are not compatiblewith each other and thus do not allow the creation of a common operating

picture.

Lack of interoperability is repeatedly identified as a pressing national need, as

identified in the Nunn/Luger/ Dominici deliberations and legislation, InterAgency

Board proceedings, the DOJ requirements study, and by the Gilmore Commission.

Challenges


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How does the Disaster Management Initiative

address these Challenges?

Value Proposition

Unified point of access to disaster-related information and services for citizens and

emergency organizations.

Accelerated and improved quality of disaster preparation, mitigation, response and

recovery minimizes the loss of life and property.

Savings to Federal, State, local, and tribal governments due to interoperability.

DM is an interagency initiative to:

Meet the nations need for a unified point of access to disaster management information

for citizens and appropriate Federal, State, local, tribal, and non-governmental authorities.

Improve incident response (all hazards) and recovery by creating the ability to seamlessly

and securely share information across the nations emergency management community.


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Program Breakdown

Information access and Emergency ManagementCommunity collaboration

DisasterHelp.gov portal

Information sharing via Interoperability EM-XML Standards Development

Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS)


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Program Breakdown (cont.)DisasterHelp.gov Portal

Purpose Provide a place ofintegrationfor government partners disaster related content, notifications, and web based

applications where 27 federal partners, NGOs, and other State and local agencies own and maintain content on the site.

Provide online tools to allow responders to collaborate in preparation for and response to a Disaster

Technology Built on Portal and Collaboration Center technology that runs Army Knowledge Online, Navy Knowledge Online, and

DHSOnline

Scalable to over 1 million users

Secure, role-based security embedded within the application

Allows users to Gather disaster related info from one authoritative source;

View news and headlines and sign up for emergency-related notifications;

Communicate and collaborate directly with the Emergency Responders community;

Exchange documents in a secure on-line community; and

Chat, meet, and discuss common issues related to disasters.

Use specialty tools i.e. Self-assess, track, and report Urban Search & Rescue team readiness.

Actual use: DisasterHelp.gov has 10,219 registered users from 49 states and supports 1,417 Knowledge Centers supporting

collaboration and sharing of 10,672 MB of information. DisasterHelp.gov portal and Collaboration Center recognized asE-Gov best practice applications by winning a 2003 E-Gov Explorer Award.

Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) division of FEMA uses the Readiness Assessment Tool to intelligently score andrecord the readiness of US&R Teams throughout the country.

FEMA Mitigation Group uses Specialized Knowledge Center notification capability to send out targeted information to

specific groups of users USDA distributes notifications of new disaster headlines, Secretariat Amendments, or Presidential Declarations.


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1. EM-XML data standards development XML standards required to support the timely and accurate incident information exchange

Emergency Interoperability Consortium

Over 60 member organizations from industry and government

Creating a National approach for developing emergency information XML data standards through

an active partnership among the public, private and non-profit sectors in a fashion that will fosterinnovation across all sectors.

CAP (Common Alert Protocol) is the first standard out of the box being adopted by EIC

2. Disaster Management Interoperability Service (DMIS) Provides an infrastructure with common service functions that enable different automated

information systems to exchange data

Provides a platform to assist standards-bodies, such as EM-XML, on prototyping, testing

and implementation of emerging data standards

Delivers a basic incident management toolset to registered emergency management user

groups

Program Breakdown (cont.)Two Key Components to Deliver Data Interoperability


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What is the interoperability problem?

Organization to

organization

interoperability

tends to beinefficient

Emergency

Manager

Emergency

Operations

Center

City B

Emergency

Manager

City A

Emergency

Operations

Center

Civil Support

Team A

Pass the rumortelephone chaos.

FAXhassles

Same room

syndrome

Grease pencil andacetate


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What is the solution?

Federal

Region

Local

Interoperability Service enabling horizontal & vertical information sharing

StateEOCEOC

ICP


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Whats an Interoperability Service?

An infrastructure with common service functions that enabledifferent automated information systems to talk to each other.

Incident

ManagementSystem A

(Local)

Incident Management

System B (State)

IncidentManagement

System C

(Federal)

DMIS Interoperability Services

Incident

CreationCommon Operational

AwarenessXML Based Standards

Open APIs

Desktop MappingShared Incident

Information


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DMIS used in 39 Incidents and 89 Exercises

ODP Pre-positioned Equipment Program

- Continuous situation awareness during

IMF protests

Colorado State Patrol

- Traffic control coordination during

wildfires

Ashland Boyd County Kentucky

-Multi-agency response coordination in:

-Barge sinking

-HAZMAT truck spill on Interstate

-Heightened DHS alert

Orangeburg County South Carolina

-Multi-agency response coordination in:

-Anthrax hoax

-Snow event

-Diesel spill

-Ammonia spill

-Suspicious package

-Dam leak

-2 Major HAZMAT traffic accidents

-2 flooding events

-Petroleum spill

-Heightened DHS alert-Chemical plant explosion

-Large-scale telephone outage

Alachua County Florida

- Coordinated all-agency

tornado response

USAF 509 Medical Group

- Tornado response

Johnstown, PA

- Multi-agency coordinated

response in mass casualtyHAZMAT release

USDA Animal & Plant Inspection Service

- Newcastle disease response; high

impact to regional poultry industry

41st Civil Support Team

Military Support to Civil Authorities during:

- Chemical plant explosion

- Manufacturing plant explosion

Washington County Maryland

-Multi-agency coordinated response in:

- Flooding- Hurricane Isabel

Laurel, Maryland

- Multi-agency response coordination:

-Hurricane Isabel

-Major fire with evacuation

Catasauqua, PA

-Hurricane IsabelMD Office of Emerg. Mgt.

-I-81 closure major accident

-I-70 closure sinkhole

-Petroleum spill

Nevada Test Site Operations Center

- Coordinated evacuation and cleanup

during major diesel spill

Alaska Office of Homeland Security

- Multi-agency coordinated response in

river flooding, summer 2003


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DMIS State Interest & Current User Groups

= considering installation for assessment

= installed; assessment in progress

= installed; decision made for state-wide roll-out

= installation visit requested

As of 09/10/03:

- 291 User Groups

- 46 States & DC

- 6 FEMA Regions

- 7 Federal Agencies

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