In May 2019, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) announced that the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) community was awarded the 2018 Doug D. Nebert Award, recognizing its support during the 2017 Hurricane season.

“In response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, HIFLD members worked collaboratively to provide a common centralized open site to host and publish unclassified publicly available geospatial data, applications, tools, and web services.  The HIFLD open data portal established through the GeoPlatform shared-service provides National foundation-level geospatial data within the open public domain that can be useful to support community preparedness, resiliency, research, and more.

This first-of-its-kind type of operational response by HIFLD has been met with great enthusiasm and direct positive feedback from the Executive Office of the White House, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and first responders.”

NAPSG Foundation is proud to be a member of the HIFLD community and would like to recognize the following individuals in our team for all their hard work and dedication to providing tools that improve the outcome for survivors: Rebecca Harned, Paul Doherty, and Tari Martin!

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