DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Daily Highlights

The Associated Press reports Cracker Barrel pulled hamburgers from hundreds of restaurants after a patron in South Carolina reported cutting her mouth on a piece of metal embedded in a patty, (See item 28)
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The Alameda Times−Star reports cell phones could save lives in California under an alert system state officials expect to provide in 12 to 14 months that will send warnings about campus massacre threats, road calamities, wildfires, as well as terrorist attacks, floods, and tsunamis. (See item 43)

Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector

44. May 08, Federal Computer Week — DoD struggles with incompatible data. Despite its efforts, the Department of Defense (DoD) is finding it difficult to share data. The multiagency Cross−Domain Semantic Interoperability Working Group concluded that DoD must address the problem with technologies that aren't yet available. The group released a report stating that DOD's data strategy is inimical to achieving broad interoperability. The technologies necessary to reach that goal haven't sufficiently matured, according to the report. DOD’s strategy is to establish communities of interest (COIs) that will develop standard data models. That approach is problematic, the report states, because it will result in a proliferation of COIs and competition among them. “The Army may end up with 100 or more data models, even with strong governance to limit the number," the report states. The group concluded that mapping the various data models could require as many 9,900 interfaces. The report's authors recommended that DoD focus on emerging technologies that directly address such issues to expand its ability to share data with internal and external partners.
Source: http://www.fcw.com/article102657−05−08−07−Web