http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/03/10/web-20-and-homeland-security-statesdhs-launch-virtual-usa/ Discussing Policies Critical To The Nation Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:39:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2009/03/10/web-20-and-homeland-security-statesdhs-launch-virtual-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Ted Maclaughlan Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:11:13 +0000 http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/?p=164#comment-40 The Federal Government is indeed supporting many collaborative initiatives for sharing and leveraging Geospatial data, for use by both government and the public, classified and unclassified venues - for example the DHS Geospatial Data Model, and HSIP Gold - "a unified homeland infrastructure geospatial data inventory assembled by NGA in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for common use by the Federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense (HLS/HD) Community". These foundation, standards-based programs help establish and reconcile the information-sharing policies and standards which programs like Virtual USA need to operate for the collective benefit of the broad HLS community. The Federal Government is indeed supporting many collaborative initiatives for sharing and leveraging Geospatial data, for use by both government and the public, classified and unclassified venues – for example the DHS Geospatial Data Model, and HSIP Gold – “a unified homeland infrastructure geospatial data inventory assembled by NGA in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for common use by the Federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense (HLS/HD) Community”. These foundation, standards-based programs help establish and reconcile the information-sharing policies and standards which programs like Virtual USA need to operate for the collective benefit of the broad HLS community.

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