1. How Federal Data Programs Support Each Other
Patrick Gannon
President & COO, Warning Systems, Inc.
OASIS Emergency Management Adoption Committee
Christopher (Scott) Shoup
Enterprise Architecture Branch, Information Technology Directorate, FEMA
Denis Gusty
Deputy Director, Office for Interoperability & Compatibility, Science & Technology Directorate, DHS
Donna Roy
Executive Director, NIEM
Director, Enterprise Data Management Office, DHS

2. Emergency Management Standards at OASIS
Emergency Interoperability Summit
NIEM National Training Event
29 Sep – 2 Oct 2009

3. OASIS Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information
Standards
Mission
To drive the development, convergence and adoption of
open standards for the global information society.
The mission of OASIS is “To drive the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society“.
This mission shapes the policies, processes and programs that directly affect OASIS members, and also affects how OASIS works with non-member constituents.

4. Background Not-for-profit consortium Founded in 1993 as SGML Open
Global representation
5,000+ participants representing organizations and individual members in countries
70+ Technical Committees
9 Member Sections

5. Accelerating the development, adoption, application, and implementation of emergency interoperability and communications standards and related work
Representing and serving the needs of all constituents, from practitioners to technology providers and national, international and multinational oversight agencies

6. Emergency Management at OASIS
Emergency Interoperability Member Section (formed 2007)
Steering Committee
2 Affiliated Technical Committees (TC)
Emergency Management TC (formed 2003)
EM GIS (Geographic Information Standards) SC
EM Infrastructure Framework SC
EM Messages and Notification SC
EM Reference Information Model SC
EM CAP Profiles SC
Emergency Management Adoption Committee (formed 2009)
EMA Events & Demos SC
EMA Collateral & Documents SC
EMA Outreach & Education SC

7. History of EM Standards at OASIS
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.0 ratified 2004
CAP 1.1 ratified 2005
CAP 1.1 Errata ratified 2006
ITU Recommendation x.1303 approved 2007
Emergency Data eXchange Language (EDXL) – Distribution Element (DE) ratified 2006
EDXL – Resource Messaging (RM) ratified 2008
EDXL – Hospital Availability (HAVE) ratified 2008
EDXL – Situation Reporting (SitRep) begun 2009
CAP v1.2 IPAWS Profile v1.0 approved as a Committee Specification 2009

8. Next Steps for the EM TC CAP 1.2 – voting as Committee Draft
RIM valueList URN, CAP Identifier
Situation Reporting completion
DE 1.1 requirements
CAP 2.0 update

9. Emergency Interop Scenario

10. Emergency Interop Scenario
Train accident with chemical leak
Train with chlorine tank cars wrecks
Chemical spill creates chlorine cloud
Train sensors generate CAP message sent to EOC
Hazmat Team is dispatched
Incident Commander requests EAS community evacuation notice
Local Emergency Operations Center issues EAS via CAP v1.1 wrapped in EDXL-DE, activated via sirens, TV, , cell phones, radio
Incident Commander requests more HazMat support via EDXL-RM wrapped in EDXL-DE
Firefighters suffer injuries
EM technicians use EDXL-HAVE wrapped in EDXL-DE to determine best medical facility
Strong thunderstorms threaten area with possible tornados
National Weather Service issues tornado warning via CAP
Alert target area for tornado displayed via GIS; message sent via CAP with polygon info
AMBER Alert from a NIEM IEPD is sent wrapped in EDXL-DE

11. Emergency Interop Participants
Plus OASIS Contributor Members:
CellCast Technologies Evolution Technologies
MyStateUSA Safe Environment Engineering
Solace Systems TeleCommunication Systems

12. Emergency Interoperability Summit Track
WEDNESDAY
10:15am - 2:45pm: Interop Demo
2:45 - 4:00pm: Roadmap to Emergency Data Standards Roundtable
4:15 - 5:30pm: Coordinating Development and Adoption of Emergency Data Standards with NIEM
5:30 - 7:30pm: Reception and Interop Demo
THURSDAY
10:15am -1:00pm: Interop Demo
1:00 - 2:15pm: Open Standard for Alert and Warning Messages in Any Medium - CAP
2:45 - 4:00pm: Expanded Family of Data Format for Exchanging Operational Information Beyond Warning - EDXL
4:00 - 4:15pm: Interop Demo
4:15 - 5:40pm: Future EDXL Standards: Tracking Emergency Patients
6:30 - 8:00pm: EDXL, CAP & DE: Ask the Experts

13. Patrick Gannon President & COO Warning Systems, Inc.
OASIS Emergency Interoperability Member Section Steering Committee Member
OASIS EM Adoption TC's Outreach & Education Subcommittee Co-Chair