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Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) [website]
The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) provides a full-range of agile and cost-effective test, evaluation, and certification services to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities.
United States. Defense Information Systems Agency. Joint Interoperability Test Command
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Developing Multi-Agency Interoperability Communications Systems: User's Handbook
This handbook is the result of a developed and focused effort by the ODP to address interoperability and is intended to enhance communications among the numerous agencies who would respond to large-scale terrorism incidents or emergencies. This handbook provides pragmatic information and practical steps on setup and operation of a multi-agency interoperability communications system using the highly adaptable ACU-1000 Modular Interface/ Interconnect System (ACU-1000), and the TRP-1000 Transportable Radio Interconnect System (TRP-1000). Section Two, Introduction to Multiple Agency Interoperability, provides background on multiple agency interoperability communication along with basic information on the ACU/TRP-1000 Gateway Switch/ Interoperability Communications System, including a general overview of its operation. Section Three, Establishing an Interoperability System, outlines the basic set-up and initial operating procedures of the ACU/ TRP-1000 Interoperability Communication System. Section Four, Technical and Tactical Considerations, presents valuable insight and experience gained through a survey of jurisdictions that have had operational experience with the ACU/TRP-1000 Interoperability Communications Systems. Section Five, Operating System Models, is provided to further assist users involved in setting up their own multi-agency interoperability communication system. This section presents descriptions of setup and deployment by jurisdictions that are using the ACU/TRP-1000. These system models demonstrate the potential for achieving a high performance system. From these reviews, new users will be better prepared to set-up and operate comprehensive systems that take full advantage of the capabilities of the ACU/TRP-1000.
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Domestic Preparedness
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Role of the Federal Government in Public Safety Wireless Interoperability
"This guide is directed at Federal Government leaders but is intended to assist all levels of government in understanding the role that the Federal Government can take in improving public safety interoperability. Describing the Federal Government as a enabler of interoperability, the guide provides examples of several activities the Federal Government is currently undertaking to improve public safety communications."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Public Safety Wireless Communications Interoperability Guide
"This guide defines public safety interoperability and explains the key issues causing interoperability problems in clear, concise terms. The guide is endorsed by the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the National Association of State EMS Directors, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Public Safety Radio Communications on Tribal Lands: A Summary
"This report summarizes the Public Safety Radio Communications on Tribal Lands assessment. The purpose of the assessment was to gain an understanding of public safety interoperable communications on tribal lands. The report gives an overview of the state of land mobile radio communications and interoperability for the 12 tribal nations that were assessed."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Interoperability Today - Volume 1
"The Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) and SAFECOM, a program of OIC, have launched a quarterly newsletter entitled Interoperability Today. The newsletter will cover relevant topics pertaining to public safety interoperability in three focus areas " communications, equipment, and training. The inaugural issue includes a profile of Chris Essid, Interoperability Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Virginia; a column on interoperability efforts during the Super Bowl, written by SAFECOM Executive Committee Member Marilyn Ward; and an overview of the Interoperability Continuum. Interoperability Today will be distributed to key stakeholders and posted here on the SAFECOM Web site."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
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Fire/EMS Interoperability Study Summary Report
"This document provides an easy-to-read summary of the Fire/EMS Interoperability Study. The study identifies the issues that affect the ability of the fire and EMS community to achieve communications interoperability. The goal of the study is to provide detailed information to support policy development and decision making regarding interoperability issues."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Role of the Local Public Safety Community in Wireless Interoperability
"This guide is directed at local government leaders but is intended to assist all levels of government in understanding the role that the local government can take in improving public safety interoperability. Describing the local public safety community as the primary protector of life and property, this guide explains ways that the local public safety community can improve interoperability."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Role of the States in Public Safety Wireless Interoperability
"This guide is directed at state government leaders but it is intended to assist all levels of government in understanding the role that state governments can play in improving public safety interoperability. Focusing on states as the linchpins to interoperability, this guide explains the actions that states can take in each of the five key issue areas to interoperability."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Interoperability Continuum Brochure
"The Interoperability Continuum is designed to help the public safety community and local, tribal, state, and federal policy makers address critical elements for success as they plan and implement interoperability solutions. These elements include governance, standard operating procedures, technology, training/exercises, and usage of interoperable communications. The Interoperability Continuum was developed in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorates Office for Interoperability and Compatibility's SAFECOM program's locally driven philosophy and its practical experience in working with local governments across the nation. This tool was established to depict the core facets of interoperability according to the stated needs and challenges of the public safety community and will aid public safety practitioners and policy makers in their short- and long-term interoperability efforts."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
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National Security Telecommunications Policy (NSC-NSDD-97)
The National Communications System [NCS] was established by Executive Order 12472 as a Federal interagency group assigned national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) telecommunications responsibilities throughout the full spectrum of emergencies. Their responsibilities include planning for, developing, and implementing enhancements to the national telecommunications infrastructure to achieve measurable improvements in survivability, interoperability, and operational effectiveness under all conditions and seeking greater effectiveness in managing and using national telecommunication resources to support the Government during any emergency.
National Security Council (U.S.)
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Beyond the Task Force CONOPS: The Path to a Capabilities-Based Modernization Framework for the Air Force
"The Air Force must now cope with pressures and 'boundary conditions' imposed by DoD's transformation priorities, joint architectures and interoperability policy, spiral acquisition policy, and some directed reorganizations. In order to manage these and leverage them favorably, the Air Force must resolve difficult issues involving stovepipes, misalignment, and lack of accountability in current processes and organizations, and shortcomings in the quality and completeness of information available for planning and decision-making. The paper suggests several alternative approaches for resolving these issues, and assesses them systematically against issue-driven criteria. The results point to a 'composite alternative' (drawing best features from the candidates) as the ideal course of action for building an effective modernization framework. The recommended framework emphasizes better architectural definition of Task Force concepts, the need to manage program portfolios in an integrated manner, the importance of aggressive concept innovation within broad strategic guidelines, and the need for a pervasive and common assessment mechanism to facilitate horizontal and vertical integration across both Air Force and joint processes. These enhancements could be critical enablers for developing agile, adaptable, and networked capabilities needed to succeed against tomorrow's increasing security challenges."
Air University (U.S.). Air War College
Planeaux, James B.
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Coordination and Partnerships Awareness Guide
"This guide highlights the essential role that coordination and partnerships play in improving public safety interoperability. The guide highlights the problems of coordination and partnerships, describes efforts to date to overcome those problems, and outlines activities that remain to be done to improve coordination."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
United States. Public Safety Wireless Network Program
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Computer-Aided Dispatch Business Case Video (Quicktime)
"The Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) Interoperability Project's Business Case video provides high-level decision makers with a value proposition that details the importance of CAD interoperability. City managers may use this tool to demonstrate to a non-technical audience the benefits of CAD interoperability and why those benefits make such an impact in the emergency response community. The CAD video depicts the same emergency response scenario in two different screens: one with CAD interoperability and the other without. Viewers will be able to see how and where in the process significant time is saved. This video also explains why this saved time is so critical. This video provides an important and necessary understanding of the benefits of CAD interoperability to senior decision makers who face limited budgets and have to choose between many different interoperability projects. The video is offered in three formats (low, medium, and high resolution) and may be viewed in Windows Media Player or Quicktime."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
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Virtual USA: Advancing Interoperability at All Levels
This is a factsheet about the Department of Homeland Security(DHS)'s Virtual USA Initiative. From the factsheet: "Nation's ability to seamlessly share information across localities, states and regions is still limited. To address this problem, the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate's Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID), assisted by the First Responder Technologies program (R-Tech) created the Virtual USA initiative. Through this initiative, CID and R-Tech -more- Virtual USA Advancing Interoperability at All Levels are partnering with local, tribal, state, and Federal agencies to build on the shift away from proprietary, siloed systems toward standards-based, commodity-driven, open architecture technologies. This shift from proprietary systems allows technologies to connect more easily across disciplines and jurisdictions for emergency response operations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate
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Strategic Plan for Developing a Suite of Standards for First Responders
"The InterAgency Board (IAB) for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability is designed to establish and coordinate local, state, and federal standardization, interoperability, compatibility, and responder health and safety to prepare for, train and respond to, mitigate, and recover from any incident by identifying requirements for an all-hazards incident response with a special emphasis on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE) issues. An integrated suite of standards is necessary to ensure compliance with minimum requirements for performance, commonality and interoperability of equipment utilized by local, state, and federal First Responders in the public safety and health communities. Such standards, as well as the specifications and test protocols that support them, are needed to guide the efforts of the manufactures and equipment developers; and to serve as a guide for informed procurement decisions by the appropriate agencies. These standards are to support the needs of response organizations to include law enforcement, fire fighters, HAZMAT, emergency medical and other related agencies that consist of the first elements to respond to incidents or attacks, and also pertain to organizations that are involved in the mitigation and recovery phases of such attacks. This document describes the strategy and process to develop such an integrated standards suite."
InterAgency Board
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Department of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO) [website]
This is the official website of the United States Department of Defense's (DoD) Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO) which "performs those key corporate-level coordination functions necessary to encourage cooperation, synergism, and cost-effectiveness among the M&S activities of the DoD Components. The M&S CO is the Executive Secretariat for DoD M&S Management in fostering the interoperability, reuse, and affordability of crosscutting M&S to provide improved capabilities for DoD operations."
United States. Department of Defense. Modeling & Simulation Coordination Office
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Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) [website]
Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) is a Department of Homeland Security Center or Excellence. "Our Work: focuses on algorithmic methods for challenging problems in data analysis that address present and emerging homeland security threats. Our Mission is to provide powerful analytical tools for information sharing, collaboration & decision support for a diverse workforce - now and for the future. Our Applications: [1] Critical infrastructure protection [2] Syndromic surveillance for natural and man-caused diseases [3] Inspection of containers at ports [4] Identification of authors from text [5] Protection against invasive species [6] Customs and border protection operations [7] Defense against threats to cyber infrastructure and data [8] Data management in emergency situations [9] Risk analysis [10] Non-intrusive data gathering techniques"
Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)
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Border Information Flow Architecture (BIFA) [website]
"The Federal Highway Administration (Office of Freight Management and Operations) and Transport Canada (ITS Office) are spearheading an effort in partnership with state and provincial DOTs and regional planning organizations to develop a Border Information Flow Architecture (BIFA). The initiative involves numerous stakeholders and is intended to be a framework that depicts the flow of information between government (federal, state and local) agencies and components of the transportation system, as they relate to border processes (e.g., the flow of advanced traveler information from inspection and enforcement agencies to transportation organizations). The objective is to develop an architecture to promote information sharing and coordination among agencies and stakeholders and increase interoperability of technologies used to support their operations. There are a multitude of agencies from numerous jurisdictions (federal, state, provincial) that operate at or on the approach to Canada-U.S. border crossings. The BIFA is intended to aid agencies in planning and implementing interoperable technologies at or on the approach to Canada-U.S. land border crossings. […] The purpose of this web site is to encourage use of the BIFA and gather feedback so that the architecture is used and continues to reflect the intelligent transportation system vision for the international border region. The menu bar at left provides access to the stakeholders, the transportation systems in the Region (the 'Inventory'), the transportation services that will be provided, transportation-related functions that are envisioned, existing and planned interfaces, and other architecture components that apply at or near the border."
Canada. Transport Canada; United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Cooperative Agreement Guidance for Public Health Emergency Preparedness Appendix 4: IT Functions & Specifications
"Through several efforts over the past few years, CDC, together with our partners, has been working toward the adoption and implementation of standards-based, integrated, and interoperable information technology (IT) systems to support public health work. Now the CDC, in cooperation with its public health partners, is advancing a group of coordinated standards and specifications to ensure a consistent and coherent public health information network can be built to serve the nation's public health information needs."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Interoperable Communications: Ensuring Radio Coverage When Selecting a Unified Command Site
"Individuals responsible for establishing a Unified Command site (UC) should consider ensuring that the site has sufficient radio coverage. Functional onsite radio capabilities will facilitate interoperable communications throughout an exercise or incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Interoperable Communications: Creating Course Outlines and Lesson Plans for Staff
"Exercise planners should consider developing course outlines and lesson plans that detail Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan (TCIP) protocol for the technical staff, line operations staff, and command staff. These lesson plans and course outlines can facilitate interoperable communications by ensuring proper implementation of protocol during incidents."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Exercise Design: Omaha, Nebraska's Oral Quiz Exercise
"Omaha, Nebraska's Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan (TICP) managers directed exercise evaluators to quiz exercise players on their roles and responsibilities during the June 20, 2006, TICP exercise. This oral quiz approach provided Omaha emergency communications personnel with the opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency with their TICP."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program: HSEEP in Action - Jacksonville, Florida's Pre-Exercise Training
"HSEEP [Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program] guidance recommends that exercise managers conduct pre-exercise briefings to educate participants, controllers, and evaluators about their roles and responsibilities. The Jacksonville, Florida, Region 3 Domestic Security Task Force Interoperable Communications Committee held a full-day training session for its Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan (TICP) prior to its TICP full-scale exercise (FSE)."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
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Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program: HSEEP in Action - Omaha, Nebraska's Oral Quiz Exercise
"Omaha, Nebraska used the HSEEP [Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program]methodology to design an extended quiz to exercise and validate their Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan (TICP). The oral quiz's unscripted play allowed the evaluators to observe and validate more sections of Omaha's TICP than a traditional scenario-driven exercise could test."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
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Emergency Communications: Utilizing a Communications Unit to Implement an Interoperability Plan
"During large-scale incidents, incident command can implement a comprehensive communications interoperability plan through the use of a communications unit."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Interoperable Communications and Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan Exercises: Announcement
Announcement of the launch of two resource pages on LLIS.gov: 'Interoperable Communications' and 'Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan Exercises.'
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Review of Statewide Interoperability Planning Efforts Across the Country
As communications interoperability continues to be a priority at the local, state, tribal and federal levels, the ability to share knowledge and better practices is a critical success factor in the planning and implementation of statewide interoperability initiatives. Communications interoperability is the ability of public safety agencies to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications systems, exchanging voice and/or data with one another on demand, in real time, when needed and as authorized. The Commonwealth of Virginia and SAFECOM, a federal program managed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), have entered into a partnership premised upon applying SAFECOM principles to an effort to plan and implement statewide communications interoperability. Both parties are committed to an approach, which captures the lessons learned that arise throughout their partnership. Those lessons learned can serve as a sample model to others designing and implementing a communications interoperability plan. Often the best place to start an effort as complex as this one is to collect insights and practices of other states and localities that have cleared their own path toward interoperability. This report profiles eighteen different states? planning efforts. The research highlights states and localities experiences with collaboration and participation across stakeholder groups. The purpose of this report is to provide examples of individual planning efforts complemented by a brief analysis of how some of these efforts have been successful and fit within SAFECOM principles.
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of Homeland Security. SAFECOM
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Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III
From the Overview: "The Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program is dedicated to ensuring the timely availability of essential domestic industrial resources to support national defense and homeland security requirements. The program works in partnership with the Uniformed services, other government agencies, and industry to identify areas where critical industrial capacity is lagging or non-existent. Once an area is identified, the program engages with domestic companies to mitigate these risks using grants, purchase commitments, loans, or loan guarantees. By executing its mission, the DPA Title III program reduces the nation's reliance on foreign supply chains and ensures the integrity of materials supplied to the American Warfighter. [...] The DPA Title III has three broad focus areas: [1]' Sustain Critical Production'[:] Programs addressing Industrial Base capability and capacity, whose primary focus is generating and sustaining Material Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Mobility, Commonality, or Affordability. [2] 'Commercialize Research & Development Investments'[:] Advanced Component or System Development and Demonstration capabilities may require investments to retain a qualitative edge in capabilities and establish commercial viability or scale up. Typical programs may begin with a technology proven capable of producing prototype components or systems in a production relevant environment. [3] 'Scale Emerging Technologies'[:] Emerging Technology Investments enable the rapid and affordable introduction of new capabilities into the organic or commercial marketplace. The technologies may be developed to respond to an emerging threat, a capability gap, or may enhance interoperability or service of existing systems or platforms. The interest in these projects may be the result of revolutionary RD&D [research, development and demonstration] capabilities."
United States. Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy
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Learning Internet of Things Security 'Hands-On'
"The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of processes: sensing, computation, communication, time, context, and data, to name only a few. How do all of these function as a system when using commercially available components that can be purchased from anywhere and at a low cost, and with little or no component pedigree available? To provide some practical answers to the these questions, we purchased components and created a set of small use cases to see how it all interoperated. We additionally wanted to ask what this means in terms of security, given many reports warning that IoT often lacks security features. Said another way, what could we glean from buying cheap parts, creating our own use cases with them, and learning how to exploit the vulnerabilities of those off-the shelf parts? The answer is a lot."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
Kolias, Constantinos; Stavrou, Angelos; Voas, Jeffrey M. . . .
