FGDC – Business Highlights Ken Shaffer Deputy Executive Director March 10, 2015 Coordination Group Meeting 03/06/2015 – v3

Activities Highlights 2014 GAO Engagement New release date for GAO Report is March 16, 2015 Congressional hearings may follow the release of the report Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) Released their “Report Card on the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure” – 2/6/15 Qualitative assessment on the NSDI framework layers and their fitness for use now and in the future Call attention to, and begin discussions on, how to improve the NSDI to ensure it meets national data needs now and in the future 2

Activities Highlights NGDA Management Plan Action 1B.2: FGDC NGDA team working with Theme Leads and Dataset Managers to register NGDA Datasets in GeoPlatform.gov/Data.gov catalog  Due March 31, 2015 Action 2A.1: Baseline Dataset Assessment Survey  Due June 30, 2015  Initializing implementation, automated tool in development  Linkages to Theme level baseline assessment, annual reporting, and evolving Platform architecture 3

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) Action 1D.3: Approve Theme Administrative Maturity Assessment Questions  Due March 31, 2015 Action 1D.4: Theme Strategic Plan Template  Draft in work  Due March 31, 2015 Action 1E.1:Geospatial investment and budget report codes  Team is updating the 2006 Geospatial Investment Definitions document  Goal is to complete document for the March Steering Committee meeting 4

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) NGDA Dataset Registration in GeoPlatform 69% NGDA Metadata Registration complete when not counting NGDAs “On Hold ” NSDI Strategic Plan FY 2015 Implementation Plan Timeline: Feb/March Inputs from Executive Champions/Team Leads FGDC/Support staff will meet with Exec Champions to discuss updates Identify CG roles and actions required in implementation process 5

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) April 2015 – Complete FY 2015 NSDI Implementation Plan update Finalize FY 15 targets Complete updated plan by end of Q2 FY15 Sept 2015 – FY 15 Status Report FGDC will prepare FY 15 Status Report – similar to FY 14 Report Report results for FY 15 Tasks/Targets Geospatial Line of Business/Platform Distributed the FY2015 Interagency Agreements on February 2, Completed EVM and DOI E-Gov Investment Tracking reports Completed the process for BY17 activities Prepared slidedeck for the DOI Investment Re-Select 6

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) (Cont’d) Contract Support Activities NGDA Dataset Maturity Assessment NGA Metadata Registration NSDI Review, Update, and Execution Geospatial Investment Coding Help Desk Support Platform Operations and Maintenance Technical Support Activities Working on current FGDC infrastructure configuration issues Completed Increment 3 of NGPI Architecture, WMV 2, and AGOL Integration development per Dec-Feb Workplan Continued work on identity management transition from Data.gov Met to discuss NGDA Dataset Assessment Tool Review 7

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) Standards Activities The FGDC Standards WG met Monday, March 2. The SWG recommended CG approval of the National Shoreline Data Content Standard for FGDC endorsement - a ballot package for CG approval is pending. National Shoreline Data Content Standard Provides a framework for data development, sharing, transformation and fusion. Provides technical guidance on semantics, data structures and their relationships. Defines common attributes or elements and provides suggested domains. Defines data models, schemas, entities, relationships, definitions, and crosswalks to related standards. Applies to shorelines of navigable waters within the U.S. and its territories. Legal controversy surrounds shoreline definitions because of boundary implications. The standard provides a framework inclusive of multiple shoreline interpretations. Applies to Water – Inland and Water - Oceans and Coasts NGDA Themes 8

Activities Highlights (Cont’d) CG ballot to approve the following standards for FGDC endorsement closes April 6: Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) 5.1 GeoRSS-Simple and GeoRSS-GML ISO/IEC :2004 Technical Corrigendum 1:2007 and ISO/IEC :2004 Technical Corrigendum 2 JPEG 2000 OGC GeoPackage 1.0 Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard Edition 2 (with concurrent withdrawal of GENC standard Edition 1) 9

Upcoming Meetings March – National Geospatial Advisory Committee March 19 – Steering Committee April 14, – Coordination Group 10

March 17-18, 2015 NGAC Meeting Agenda Tuesday, March 17 8:30 – 9:15Welcome & Introductions – Chair, Vice Chair 9:15 – 10:00Leadership Dialogue – Jennifer Gimbel (DOI) 10:00 – 10:30BREAK 10:30 – 11:30FGDC Report – Ivan DeLoatch/Jerry Johnston 11:30 – 12:00Outreach and Communications Subcommittee – Bert Granberg 12:00 – 1:30LUNCH 1:30 – 3:30Crowd-Sourced Geospatial Data Spotlight Session – Molly Vogt Presentations: Overview: Steve Coast Sophia Liu (USGS Mendenhall Research Fellow) Denice Ross (Presidential Innovation Fellow) Sean Gorman (timbr.io, GeoCommons) 3:30 – 4:00BREAK 4:00 – 4:45Geospatial Privacy Subcommittee Report – Kevin Pomfret 4:45 – 5:30Lightning Session 1 5:30ADJOURN 11

March 17-18, 2015 NGAC Meeting Agenda Wednesday, March 18 8:30 – 8:45Welcome & Review of Day 1 – Chair/Vice Chair 8:45 – 9:30Landsat Advisory Group Report – Jack Hild/Tim Newman (USGS) 9:30 – 10:153DEP Subcommittee Report – Gary Thompson/Vicki Lukas (USGS) 10:15 – 10:45BREAK 10:45 – 11:30COGO Report Card – Gov. Jim Geringer/John Moeller (COGO) 11:30 – 11:45Public Comment Period 11:45 – 1:15LUNCH 1:15 – 2:45Subcommittee Work Session & Debrief – Subcommittee Chairs 2:45 – 3:00BREAK 3:00 – 3:30Lightning Session 2 3:30 – 4:00Review Action Items, Decisions & Next Steps 4:00ADJOURN 12

President’s 2016 Budget Community Resiliency Toolkit +$11,000,000 ($11 million) The Community Resilience Toolkit (Toolkit) will improve community resilience by providing tools that help Federal, State, local and tribal governments understand, respond to, and adapt their planning to maximize economic sustainability to natural hazards and other events. Will enhance the Geospatial Platform with the addition of new data, tools, and services; supporting an increased user-base; funding cooperative agreements with State, local, and Tribal governments to integrate their data and services into the Geospatial Platform. 13

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