Secure information sharing across law enforcement jurisdictions has had a profound effect on fighting crime, assuring public safety and streamlining operations. While initiated as a combined effort of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) along with the grass-roots efforts of community practitioners, the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is an extensible information framework.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined founders DHS and DOJ as the primary stakeholders and executive for NIEM.  The overall NIEM community includes a range of domains such as emergency management, family services, chemical, biological and nuclear detection, immigration, air and maritime international trade across federal, state and county levels and now extending to include both Mexico and Canada.

Oracle is providing government organizations large and small with information and tools to quickly develop successful information exchanges based on Oracle's NIEM-friendly tools and best practices. Our NIEM Starter Kit and our comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform can provide government agencies with significant savings in cost and time on their information exchange projects.

How has Oracle invested?

• Oracle has established a dedicated NIEM team within the Oracle Public Sector sales organization, focused on enabling and supporting our government customers in their efforts to build NIEM-compliant exchange solutions.
• Oracle is actively participating in the NIEM community, contributing technical expertise, information, and leadership in the NIEM, Justice and Public Safety (JPS), and HHS arenas, including white papers, conference presentations and panels, and technical working groups.
• Oracle is a Sustaining Member of the Integrated Justice Information System [IJIS] Institute.
• Oracle is providing primary support for the ongoing development of the Content Assembly Mechanism [CAM], a free open-source tool that allows organizations to quickly build NIEM-based exchange schemas and NIEM IEPDs using a drag-and-drop GUI.
• Oracle is providing a NIEM Starter Kit for JPS that gives organizations a jump-start on their LEXS message exchange design and development activities.
• Oracle is providing NIEM expertise to our customers that are complying with the PPACA healthcare reform legislation by implementing Health Insurance Exchange solutions.