BuildingServicePerformance: Project Coordination Sub-team Meeting

• Purpose: Project coordination
• Main Topics: Projects; Potential; Prospectus; Performance

Conference Call Details

• Date: Monday, Apr. 13, 2009
• Start Time: 1:00pm PDT / 4:00pm EDT / 20:00 UTC
  • see world clock for other time zones
• Expected Call Duration: ~1.5 hours
• Dial-in Number:
  • from a US telephone (US): +1-218-486-3600 (domestic long distance cost will apply)
  • When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#"

Agenda

• Breaking news
• Project coordination
• Contacts
• Pursuit of funding
• Demonstrations
• Time line
• Next steps

Attendees

• Actual Attendees:
  • Bob Smith
  • David Coggeshall
  • Michelle Raymond
  • Rex Brooks

• Regrets
  • DeborahMacPherson

Conference Call Notes

Breaking news

• UICDS (Unified Incident Command and Decision Support) - April 29th demonstration is culmination of previously planned coordinated work. The demonstration will include a live Emergency Operating Center housing multiple-groups running against a simulation / scenario.
  • Let's align with use cases and standards defined within the UICDS effort.
  • We'd like to be included in future demonstration.
  • Contact: Chip Mahoney - Program Manager for UICDS.
  • To get software development kit, we need to fill out the survey-template.
    • QUESTION: What name should be put in the Company field? IRSC?, BSP?, Golden Gate Safety Network? ...
    • NOTE: email from DeborahMacPherson received during this meeting stated she could not fill out survey at this time.
    • SUGGESTION: Each individual wanting to connect into UICDS could send in a survey response. The overlap of answers to questions such as "Q: What standards do you use for data formats or data exchanges?" could be an added benefit.

• Peter Orzag (NEED: check spelling and add title) has stated that Government Agencies must pay-up for past postings before they can submit new postings to Grants.gov.
  • He has a role of FEA integrator and is involved in the administration of Grants.gov.
  • Exactly what this means and it's impact on Grant availability or timing is unknown.

Project coordination

• OpenFloorPlanDisplay first of a series of projects out-of IRSC and BSP.
• Need to know how useful the Omni-class classifications will be in real-world use for floor plan display
  • Floor plan for Harney demonstration needs room classification - how smart does the classification need to be? how do we use Omni-class etc...

Contacts

• Brand Niemann - Federal Enterprise Architecture FEA and SOA based eGov
• Ontologists and Ontology Engineers: Josh(?), Mathew(?), Leo(?), others from OntologySummit2009 connection
• others coming out of OntologySummit2009 follow-up communications

Pursuit of funding

• General discussion
  • For a project to get funding there needs to be an anchor-point organization
  • Need alignment with an inside player to obtain funding
  • Ideally partner with company who is already doing First Responder Information Display work (Examples: Honeywell, Inc. and Net Talon)
• Federal funding
  • Companies need to be registered with the Central Contractor Registry under Grants.gov
• Local level funding
  • Take it to the local levels and understand there needs (what do they need to do their job better, faster?)
  • Show best practices in sample implementations that could be readily transferred into real use
• Industry consortium funding
  • Not deemed likely unless through existing consortium with money set-up for demonstration, particularly since membership is often a requirement for funding eligibility
  • Given the economy, not much is being given out from Industry for out-side groups to show proof-of-concepts.
• Recommendation
  • Focus pursuits at local level
  • Market based on specific needs and how project work can address those needs

Demonstrations

• Harney Building floor plan
• St. Mary's Hospital - safety
• Real-time data display of building information
• BIM Storm for San Diego
  • kickoff was last Friday
  • 4-6 workshops to follow
  • wrap-up - June 10,11,12

Time line

• Topic not covered

Pop-up information

• Keywords and Phrases - good for use in proposals, presentations, etc...
  • Demonstration Projects or Pilot Projects (example: medical buildings focus - with St Mary project demonstration)
  • Sustainability, Infrastructure, Resilience
  • Situational Awareness
  • Relationships between "X" (Agencies, Counties, Emergency Depts., Organizations,...)

Next steps

• See where the IRSC folk stand on the topics covered here at Wednesday meeting
  • Task: Rex to put on agenda for IRSC meeting
• Put together a marketing plan with multi-level, multi-focus
  • Task: Michelle to put template out as a Google doc
• Exploration of local level projects
• Classify rooms for Harney demo
  • Task: Bob, Deb, and David to discuss use of Omni-class terminology
• Foster relationships to get Ontologist project advisers / collaborators
  • Task: Deb, Bob, Michelle to continue discussion with potential advisers / collaborators
• BSP meeting - in future, when co-convener schedules can align