This bimonthly meeting of the HIFLD Working Group was the first to be focused primarily on a specific Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) sector. The focus for the 30 June-1 July 2004 meeting was the Transportation sector.
Briefings directly related to the Transportation CIP Sector included the following:
(1) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) and its Metro Transit Dataset provided by the Steve Lewis and Matt Sheppard from the Department of Transportation (DOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
(2) CalTrans Digital Highway Inventory Program by Dave Lorenzini of AirPhotoUSA
(3) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Map Database (AMDB) by Tom Prevost of the FAA’s Safe Flight 21 Division
(4) NAVTEQ Federal Omnibus License Dataset by Bob Denaro of NAVTEQ
(5) Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server (IRRIS) Update by Brendan Wesdock of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency (MSDDC TEA)
(6) USTRANSCOM and its use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by Mr. Jim Boyd of TRANSCOM
(7) National Rail Database Update by Paul Johnson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1.2.2 OTHER BRIEFINGS: Briefings not specifically focused on transportation, but very relevant to the HIFLD WG and the Transportation CIP Sector included:
(1) Homeland Defense and Defense CIP (DCIP) Update by Jeff McManus of the OASD-HD CIP Directorate
(2) New HIFLD Working Group Initiatives by Justin Sherin and Jeff Wiser (3) Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Follow-up Report by a team from the Baker Group and AGI
(4) HIFLD Web Portal Update by Mr. Bill Dollins
(5) NGA Federal Omnibus Data Licenses by Bill Mullen of NGA
(6) DTRA’s new Consequence Assessment Tool Set (CATS) Version 6 by Dean Kaul and Bob Doenges of SAIC.