[emergency] Re: Interoperability of XML Schemas

Deborah, Allen, Everyone,

DMIS implements a CAP API for beta testing:

http://www.cmi-services.org

CAP specifically overlaps ICS201, (Incident Command System form 201), but where that particular piece of work current resides within DHS is something we don't know. However, during last week's TC meeting, we discussed the recent release, March 1, 2004 of the DHS National Incident Management System (152 pages)

http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NIMS-90-web.pdf

Specifically, I wrote a strawman .xsd schema based on the data dictionary developed by David Hall before he left the TC. I uploaded the file ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd for reference only to the Resources folder of the EM TC Documents section.

A recent article in the Homeland Security Monitor newsletter of Intellibridge.com

http://www.intellibridge.com

highlighted ICS (but not the 201 form which was derived from a Fire Fighters Search and Rescue Incident Command System Form--I have boldfaced the reference below):

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tom Ridge announced on 1 March the approval of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), "the Nation's first standardized management plan that creates a unified structure for Federal, state, and local lines of government for incident response," a DHS statement said. Making the announcement during an address to the annual meeting of the National Association of Counties, Ridge said, "NIMS gives all of our Nation's [first] responders the same framework for incident management and fully put into practice the concept of, 'One mission, one team, one fight.'" The new national emergency response plan boosts the nation's capabilities by "identifying and integrating core elements and best practices." Key components of the plan include: Incident Command System (ICS), a unified command that establishes fives functional areas for managing all major incidents-command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration-and provides for coordinated efforts as well as joint decisions; NIMS Integration Center (NIC) will provide strategic direction and oversight of the NIMS and develop and facilitate national standards; Joint Information System (JIS) will provide the public with timely and accurate incident information and unified public messages, and will employ Joint Information Centers that bring incident communicators together during an incident. Ridge called NIMS a "common operating picture from which we can all work," adding, "As we developed NIMS, we made sure everyone had a seat at the table. We will call on [local officials] late to execute the game plan," Nation Journal's Technology Daily reported.

ANALYSIS: NIMS is the latest step in the federal government's goal toward issuing a National Response Plan (NRP), or all-hazards plans. In October 2003, Secretary Ridge announced the approval of the Initial National Response Plan (INRP), a roadmap for developing "a unified approach to domestic incident management" in the U.S. It linked five emergency response plans and established a coordinating structure for emergency response personnel across all levels of government. NIMS, with its standardized incident management processes, protocols and procedures, will support the INRP until the final NRP, which is under development, is completed. Unlike the INRP, which will be replaced, NIMS "will continue to provide the Nation's doctrinal guidance for incident management for acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other emergencies." Despite Ridge's announcement on NIMS, the system is still not complete, according to Bob Stephen, a special assistant to Ridge, National Journal's Technology Daily reported. While he did not have a specific time for when the plan's guidelines would be finalized, he said once that happened, state and local government would have until 1 October to comply or risk DHS withholding homeland security grants.

That's about as specific to CAP overlap of anything I personally know about.

At 8:33 AM -0500 3/13/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote:

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