A New Coalition
In what can only be described as an amazing event, on February 28, 2005, the CIO's of the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security stood on the same platform at an Executive Briefing on the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) and announced the formation of a coalition between DOJ and DHS to support and extend the GJXDM as the baseline for information sharing in government. The amazing part is to see these two departments agree on common ground about most anything, but for DHS to acknowledge that DOJ and the state and local people who developed the GJXDM have accomplished something that can be reused by DHS is a very major accomplishment.
Since then there has been a loosely coupled steering committee representing Federal, state/local interests and industry working on the transformation of the GJXDM into a new National Information Exchange Model which everyone hopes will be the foundation for inter-domain information sharing on all levels, incorporating the needs of both Federal and state/local agencies. A milestone in this work is the release for public review of a new NIEM web site that explains the concepts behind this innovative move, and which will display more details in the future as this concept turns into reality.
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