On July 6th 2011 he US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Geospatial Management Office (GMO) announced that Version 3.0 of the GeoCONOPS is now available. The development of the GeoCONOPS is lead by the Geospatial Interagency Oversight Team, which is a selected group of federal geospatial leads who discuss and guide the process of the GeoCONOPS.
The GeoCONOPS is focused on the geosaptial communities supporting DHS and FEMA activities under the National Response Framework (NRF). The intended audience of GeoCONOPS includes the 15 Emergency Support Functions (ESF) and other federal mission partners. It is currently in review by FEMA for adoption by the National Incident Management System (NIMS). It is inteded to identify and align the geospatial resources that are required to support the NRF, ESF, and supporting federal mission partners.
NAPSG encourages local, county, state, and tribal public safety agencies to take a look at the latest version of GeoCONOPS as a mission blueprint and requirements matrix for technology, products, data, and interoeprability standards. Over the next month NAPSG will be working with members of the Standards Working Group, the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), DHS, and several other public safety & GIS practitioners to update version 1.1 of the NAPSG Standard Operating Guidance for Multi-Agency Coordination Centers (SOG). In the next update NAPSG plans to make updates that will further evolve the SOG to serve as a more versatile template for public safety & geospatial practitioners to build their own Standard Operating Procedures for their agencies that support map production, information & data sharing, and map product delivery.
Provided below is GeoCONOPS 3.0 as a PDF file and the NAPSG SOG as a word document. NAPSG welcomes input, edits, and feedback on the SOG as we proceed with the next update - and we encourage any review & edits to reflect any point sof intersection that are identified with GeoCONOPS 3.0. Please send any suggested edits or comments to rharned@publicsafetygis.org by July 31, 2011.
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 DHS_Geospatial_CONOPS_v3.0_8.5x11.pdf | 5433 Kb | 07/07/11 20:30 | |
 Standard-Op-Guidance-MACC-Version1.1-Compatible-Version.doc | 910 Kb | 07/07/11 20:33 |
