Law Enforcement
National Data Exchange
SEARCH Conference
January 22-25, 2008
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N-DEx Vision Statement
The vision of N-DEx is to share
complete, accurate, timely and useful
criminal justice information across
jurisdictional boundaries and to provide
new investigative tools that enhance the
Nation’s ability to fight crime and
terrorism.
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N-DEx Major Activities, Milestones, and
Reviews for Increment 1
Program Management
Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)
May 2
Week 8
Development and Test
Requirements &
Architecture
Design Concept Review (DCR)
Mar 15
Week 4
Prototyping
Detailed Design
Critical Design Review (CDR)
May 8
Week 10
May 30 Final Design Review (CONTROL GATE 3)
Production Test Readiness Review (PTRR)
Sept 17
Component Development, Test & Integration
(at Landover, MD)
Implementation and Integration
Functional & Interface Testing
(at Landover, MD)
ROE H/W Installation (at CJIS)
Week 13
Week 28
Site Acceptance Review (SAR)
Sept 11
Deploy N-DEx Apps. to CJIS
Week 30
System Acceptance Test Readiness Review (STRR)
(COMBINED CONTROL GATE 4 & 5)
Oct 31
Week 36
Week 40
RMS Conference participation
System Acceptance Test
(at CJIS)
Operational Readiness Review (ORR)
Dec 4
Operational Acceptance Review
(OAR) (CONTROL GATE 6)
Sr. Qrtly Advisory Board Mtgs
Feb 27
Training, C&A, Deployment
Operations and Maintenance
Week 51
Operations and Maintenance
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N-DEx Services and Capabilities- Increment One
Other Features
• Data Sharing Policies Control
• Role-Based Access Control
• On-Line Training
Entity
Contributors Correlation
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Local
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County
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State
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Tribal
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Federal
Visualization
Entity
Resolution
Incident/
Catalog/
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Search
Index
Case Report
Leveraged
Systems
• NCIC
Analytical
Reporting
Data Types
• Incident/Case/Arrest Reports
 Initial Functionality
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N-DEx / NCIC Integration
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N-DEx will be required to query NCIC via NCIC transactions such as
the QW, QG, QA, and QV transaction.
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N-DEx will search 16 of the 21 NCIC files, to include Interstate
Identification Index (III) search.
Originating Agency Identifier
Wanted Person
Missing Person
Foreign Fugitive
U.S. Secret Service Protective
Vehicle
License Plate
Boat
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Vehicle/Boat Part
Article
Gun
Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization
Convicted Person on Supervised Release
Convicted Sexual Offender Registry
Identity Theft
Immigration Violators
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Detailed Record
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Search Criteria - (Person)
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Search Criteria - (Person Details)
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Search Criteria - (Crime Characteristics)
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Search Criteria - (Location)
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Search Results
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Visualization of Search Results
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N-DEx Data Standards
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) - structured language for
describing information being sent electronically to N-DEx.
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The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is using the
GJXDM to build a common XML data exchange standard for
information sharing among:
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Justice, public safety, homeland security, and intelligence.
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The N-DEx IEPD v1.0 is available at:
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www.it.ojp.gov
On left hand column, click on IEPD Clearinghouse
Click on Find IEPD Information
In the Search field, search “N-DEx”
Click on the N-DEx IEPD
Click on the Web link to the actual IEPD
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N-DEx AND THE
National Information Sharing Strategy
Regional/State
i.e., ARJIS, LInX, ICLEAR, Gateway,
non R-DEx systems
CJIS
LEAs
i.e. NCIC, III, IAFIS
N-DEx
Other Federal
•National information sharing
•Links regional and state systems
Tribal
One DOJ
R-DEx
ATF–BOP–DEA–FBI-USMS
•Virtual regional information sharing
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Development and Implementation
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Performance-Based Acquisition
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Development contract awarded to Raytheon Company, February 12, 2007
Contractor start date – February 26, 2007
Incremental Deployment
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Increment I – March 2008
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Sharing of incident/case report
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Search
Correlation (basic)
Visualization (basic)
Limited fail-over capability
Initial support – 50,000 users
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Increment II – June 2009
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Add data sets – incarceration data
and arrest/booking data
Correlation (advanced)
Visualization (advanced)
Subscription/Notification (advanced)
Analytical/Reporting (basic)
Increasing system fail-over
capabilities
100,000 Users
Increment III – June 2010
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Add data sets –
probation/parole data
Enhancements and
modifications to previously
deployed functionality
Analytical reporting
(advanced)
Implement fully redundant
system and environments
200,000 Users
Operations and Maintenance
Delivery – November 2010
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Program Management
Option Year 1 Start – Feb 28, 2008
IBR – Apr 23
RCR – Mar 26
Milestones, and
Reviews for
Increment 2
Week 5
Week 4
Systems Engineering
and Development
Reqs &
Architecture
DCR – May 13
High Level Design
Week 11
Prototyping
CDR – Jul 16
Detailed Design
Week 20
FDR (Gate 3) – Aug 13
Week 24
PTRR – Dec 12
Week 41
Component Development, Test & Integration
SAR – Dec 3
Test and Integration
Week 40
ROE H/W Installation (at CJIS)
SysTRR (Gate 4/5) – Mar 4, 2009
Week 53
Functional testing (INT)
Deploy Application (ROE)
ORR – Apr 9
Week 58
System Acceptance Test
(at CJIS)
O&M “Point” Builds
Week 70
OAR (Gate 6)
Jun 30
Sr. Qrtly Advisory Board Mtgs
Training, C&A
SME Coordination
Operations and Maintenance
Apr ’08
Jul ’08
Nov ’08
Mar ’09
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Training
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Train-the-Trainer Concept
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Utilize the existing agency trainers or
training coordinators to provide N-DEx user
support or additional training within their
agency
Bring agency trainers to CJIS for 1-2 days
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Currently scheduling 2-8 per agency
1 per associated FBI FO
2 to 4 hour block
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Provide agency trainers with lesson plans,
CDs of CBTs, live system interaction
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Beginning Feb 2008; have quarterly for
future participating agencies
User Training
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Computer Based Training (CBT)
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Six Modules
Required by user role (2-3 modules per role)
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Users Manual – electronic; hard copy with
agency trainer
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Additional training should be provided by the
agency trainer/coordinator
N-DEx will accommodate special requests for user training for Increment 1 agencies only. This is
dependant upon CJIS available resources and includes a 2-4 hour block to reinforce information
provided via CBTs
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Increment 1 Rollout Schedule
User Enrollment
Dec 07
Participating agencies
Feb
09
Surrounding agencies
Train-the-Trainer
Feb
09
Feb 08
Implementation Support
Mar 08
On-site at agency
Feb
09
Increment 1 O&M
Feb
08
Increment 2
Development
Feb
09
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QUESTIONS
Timothy S. Reid
Unit Chief/Deputy Program Manager
(304)625-4219
treid1@leo.gov
or
Jon Kevin Reid
Program Manager
(304)625-2611
ndex@leo.gov
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