Technology Standards - NIEM

The Client is requesting technology assistance from the BJA/IJIS Institute TA program to address and focus on the following areas:
• Development of a technical assistance plan, including SDSA project goals
• Prioritization of jail data collection through:
o Clarification of the goals of the SDSA data committee
o Identification of priority performance measures for jails.
o Definition for each measure and the data elements needs
• Determination of methods for centralized data and performance measure reporting by:

This high-level briefing is specifically geared for executives, managers, and policymakers who want to learn more about the benefits of implementing NIEM. This briefing will provide basic definitions and foundational concepts and provide the information needed to enable decision makers to understand the value and applications of NIEM. Session Topics will include:
• NIEM Overview and Introduction
• NIEM’s Benefits and Impacts
• NIEM Governance
• NIEM Value Proposition
• NIEM Success Stories
• NIEM and the Global Reference Architecture

To finish development and draft documentation of a detailed approach to using NIEM and JSON for JSON instances and schemas; provide the information needed to support the public release of the PMO’s Search and Schema Builder tool.

The three-day NIEM Technical Training curriculum is designed for developers and practitioners in the field to provide the information needed to enable them to build applications using NIEM and use it effectively. The training course guides students through NIEM in a structured process and will cover the following modules:

NW3C staff attended the 2017 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. While there, NW3C hosted a meeting of the White Collar Crime Research Consortium (WCCRC) and presented on data breaches and local governments.

Virtual, online meeting of the CJTFG to review and discuss draft findings and recommendations from group meetings #1-3, as well as discuss several new candidate recommendations and action items. The latter included draft recommendations on requiring data to be exportable from core criminal justice records systems, calling for research on technologies for subduing suspects, and findings on the growing importance of centralized case management in providing services to clients as part of reducing recidivism (and crime) as part of CJ reform.

In October 2016, IIR assisted in the coordination of a face-to-face meeting with members of the NIEM PMO, the NBAC, and the NTAC in Rosslyn, Virginia. The meeting included separate NBAC and NTAC sessions, as well as joint sessions of both groups and the NIEM PMO.

IIR staff members worked with the NIEM PMO to poll the justice community for and compile nominations for the 2016 Best of NIEM awards.

This task team was formed, in part, in response to a document drafted by members of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group (CJTFG), supported by RAND on behalf of BJA, to support the following task approved by the GESC: Solve specific justice/health exchanges using consistent architectural approaches to minimize costs and increase interoperability.

IIR supports the efforts of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Justice Information Sharing (JIS) Training and Technical Assistance Committee (JTTAC) through the planning, agenda development, hosting, and action item follow-up of standing bi-monthly conference calls.