DHS Releases Grant Guidance for 2010

Tuesday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano released the fiscal 2010 grant application guidance kits for 13 DHS grant programs totaling more than $2.7 billion. The money provides state, local and tribal governments and private-sector entities funding to strengthen the nation’s ability to prevent, protect, respond to and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. Click here to read full article >

To track federal Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) funds going to your state and local government, click here.

Justice XML: What is it, and what does it mean for your agency? (Law Enforcement Technology, April 2005)
Perhaps you've come across the words "justice XML" when researching a new CAD system. What do they mean? Justice XML refers to GJXDM, the Global Justice XML Data model, which uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a framework to structure information in a document. This provides the structure and semantics that enable law enforcement and criminal justice systems to share information among agencies, regardless of how that information is represented in each system.

TriTech recognizes the importance of this initiative and has been involved with the Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (IJIS). The attached article explains the reason behind the creation of these communication standards and features insight from TriTech CEO, Chris Maloney and Paul Wormeli, the executive director of IJIS. Read more.