The following were the key highlights from the meeting.
Mr. Jeff McManus from the ASD HD CIP office provided context for HIFLD Working Group in support of Homeland Defense. Resources have been applied to running the HIFLD Working Group and guidance has been given for future HIFLD efforts.
ASD-HD support and their CIP efforts
- The ASD HD CIP Office will sponsor HIFLD.
- Defense Program Office for Mission Assurance has been stood up and will manage the HIFLD Working Group.
- HIFLD will have a management advisory council.
- HIFLD meetings will be every other month. HIFLD and CIPIS sectors need stronger links. Initially, meeting themes will address this issue.
- HIFLD remains a discussion topic between ASD HD CIP and DHS Infrastructure Protection.
There remains strong public-private interest in HIFLD work.
Mr. Dan Vernon from NGA provided an overview of “Project Homeland”. The project is a joint venture involving NGA, USGS, DHS, NORTHCOM and ESRI. It will involve the National Map, Upgrades to Palanterra and some operational and technical “proof of concept” projects in areas still to be chosen. Project Homeland will involve some of the HIFLD members.
Mr. Richard Hogan and Bill Miller provided an overview of the National Map architecture. They provided how the National Map continues to evolve, facilitates the use of GIS, supports decision makers and is really serving an information society vice cartographers as it moves into the future.
Col Brian Cullis provided an update on the DoD Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI). He stressed the use of the HIFLD for teaming opportunities and sharing resources to achieve results and progress. The DISDI concept has been accepted by the DUSD (I&E) domain governance board. DISDI is capitalizing on all the work of the Installation Visualization Tool (IVT) that is capturing auditable data for BRAC. Dan Feinberg provided an update of the IVT. The progress has been impressive. There is potential to have the IVT data fed to USGS and NGA for dissemination as part of the national foundation layers.
Mr. Tom McCarty provided an overview of the DHS Geospatial Enterprise Architecture (EA). Version 1.0 is being staffed internally at DHS at this time. The enterprise is to be standards based and service based, with “best of breed”-based geospatial applications to meet DHS missions and activities. The Geospatial Management Office (GMO) envisions their EA cutting across all business areas of DHS, and view their “Enterprise” as the “distributed assets of DHS.” They are also transforming FEMA’s Mapping and Analysis Center into their Geospatial Service Center.