Federal Geographic Data Committee Report NGAC Meeting

1. Federal Geographic Data Committee ReportNGAC Meeting Ivan DeLoatch, Executive Director December 8, 2010

2. Topics • A-16 Supplemental Guidance • Geospatial Line of Business • Imagery for the Nation (IFTN) Request of Information • Geospatial Standards • NGAC Appointments Process • FGDC Secretariat and USGS Reorganization

3. OMB Circular A-16 • OMB Circular A-16, “Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities”, August 1992 (revised) • Provides direction for federal agencies that produce, maintain, or use spatial data either directly or indirectly in the fulfillment of their mission. • Describes the components of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) • Assigns agency roles and responsibilities for development of the NSDI

4. OMB Circular A-16, cont. • Assigns lead agency responsibility for the identified Data Themes of national significance. • Provides additional guidance to Federal agencies on implementing Circular A-16 to ensure a coordinated, efficient, transparent, and responsive Federal geospatial enterprise • Defines and clarifies selected elements of Circular A-16 to ensure that further implementation of Circular A-16 results in a coordinated geospatial asset management capability

5. A-16 Supplemental Guidance OMB issued on Nov 10, 2010 Developed, revised, and released over a period of 2 ½ years Portfolio management National Geospatial Data Assets Roles and responsibilities Data lifecycle Investment evaluation strategy Reference documents

6. Portfolio Management of National Geospatial Data Assets • Inventory, selection, management, evaluation, monitoring, and setting of Federal geospatial dataset priorities • Inventory – identify existing geospatial datasets that may be considered NGDAs • Select - determine if the datasets are NGDA Datasets and if they should become part of the NGDA Portfolio • Manage – develop and manage NGDA Datasets per the Supplemental Guidance • Evaluate/monitor – manage NGDA Datasets according to NGDA Theme plan, milestones and performance measures • Identify and execute – develop NGDA Theme and NGDA Dataset development and funding and priorities • Ensures that NGDA Datasets are available to support the mission needs of the Federal Government and its partners

7. Roles and Responsibilities • Executive NGDA Theme Champion • NGDA Theme Lead • NGDA Dataset Manager • Data Steward • Structure allows for public/private partnerships in data management • Responsibilities include meeting government business and use requirements

8. Portfolio Investment Strategy • Provides a mechanism for annual peer review and consultation • Increases the geospatial community's effectiveness by better aligning its activities with other Federal investment processes and investments. • Identifies and considers partnering opportunities for investment collaboration • Provides opportunities for geospatial experts to share opportunities for improved geospatial resource alignment

9. Reference Materials • FGDC website http://www.fgdc.gov/policyandplanning/a-16 • FGDC Structure and Federal Agency and Bureau Representation • Process for adjusting OMB Circular A–16 Appendix E: NSDI Geospatial Data Theme Principles • Lexicon of Geospatial Terminology • Stages of the Geospatial Data Lifecycle • Key Roles and Responsibilities

10. Next Steps: December 2010-April 2011 • The FGDC will make final adjustments to NGDA themes • Associate the current inventory of National Geospatial Data Assets Themes with appropriate agencies • Prepare implementation plan to agencies on how to comply with the Supplemental Guidance • Agencies will prepare and send their timelines for complying with the Supplemental Guidance • The FGDC will select a portfolio management pilot for the FY13 budget process • The FGDC will finalize the maturity model/other scorecard contentthat will be used to evaluate NGDAs

11. Geospatial Line of Business • Strong correlation between GeoLoB and Geospatial Platform requirements • Resources/materials aligned to support establishment of the Geospatial Platform • Stand-up of Technical Deployment Task Team for common data, services, and applications • Establishing Platform Roadmap V4 drafting and adjudication team • Finalizing FY 2011 Tasks and deliverables

12. Imagery For The Nation (IFTN)Request For Information (RFI) • FGDC-sponsored IFTN RFI closed 16 Aug 10 • 32 responses, limited to ten pages • Responses distributed to partner organizations for review (FGDC, USDA, USGS, NASA, NGA, etc.) • Feedback was due 1 Oct 10 • Feedback was compiled/integrated, with joint review mid- to late-October • Intent : to shape future plans for IFTN program • Funding/acquisition strategy not developed at this time

13. Conclusions • No single vendor is currently capable of meeting both the 1m and 30cm requirements because of licensing or capacity issues • Multiple vendor responses could meet either the 1m or 30cm requirements through teaming efforts • Existing vendor libraries fail to satisfy the requirements for either the 1m or 30cm due to coverage, currency, and/or licensing issues

14. Conclusions • Archive/retrieval capabilities redundant with current government capability • EROS Data Center and USDA are excellent archival sites - scaling will be needed • Local government organizations could be used as COOP sites - cooperative agreement/ no funding applied

15. Conclusions • Licensed data with universal access may be cost prohibitive. • 30cm imagery will not meet state or local government needs in urban areas

16. NGA Assessment Team Recommendations • IFTN is best executed by a civil agency • NGA should formally support IFTN • A standardized GeoTIFF implementation profile should be used across the USG

17. Geospatial Standards • FGDC Standards WG and Coordination Group recommended FGDC endorsement of 64 OGC, ISO, and defacto standards • Time box 1 (Oct 2010) activity supporting the Geospatial Platform and Palanterra • Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) cookbook • Standards endorsed by FGDC Steering Committee • List of standards is available at: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/fgdc-endorsed-external-standards/index_html

18. Geospatial Standards, cont. • The Address Standard Working Group submitted the final draft of the United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard (Final Draft) to the FGDC Secretariat on November 10. • The draft Standard provides a data content, classification, quality, and exchange standard for thoroughfare, landmark, and postal addresses, and for address reference systems. • Coordination Group discussion is anticipated at the January meeting. • This a product of a great deal of effort and deliberation • Special thanks to our colleagues at the Census Bureau and URISA for their leadership and action

19. Geospatial Standards, cont. • The FGDC Standards Working Group and Geospatial Intelligence Standards Working Group (GWG) are working toward coordinating their standards processes for common standards across the military, intelligence, and civil spaces. • One driver is the Platform implementation of Palanterra: • FGDC interest in leveraging GV-ES portfolio services (e.g., Palanterra) • GV-ES activities were endorsed by the FGDC Executive Committee and identified in "Timebox One" of the Modernization Roadmap for the Geospatial Platform • Goals include: • Working towards a single set of common geospatial standards for use across the Federal government • Establish common framework for cross domain capabilities • More efficiently leveraged resources and reduce duplicative assessments processes between sectors • Reduce overall standards review time • Establish more comprehensive reporting/information sharing

20. NGAC 2011 Appointments • Call for Nominations for appointment to NGAC - issued 7/9/10, closed 8/24/10 (open for 45 days) • Approx. 50 nominations received – strong set of candidates • Approximately one-half of current appointments will expire in January 2011 • Interagency review panel met in September/October to evaluate nominations and develop recommendations to DOI Office of the Secretary. • Nominations currently under review within Interior • Secretary Salazar will make final appointment decisions. Final decisions expected in December/early January • Next appointments will take effect January, 2011 • Under NGAC Charter, appointment terms are 3 years

21. USGS – Core Science Systems Associate Director for Core Science Systems Kevin Gallagher Chief of Staff Tom Wood Deputy Associate Director Mark Naftzger Staff Scientist/Fellow Vacant Senior Management Officer Mary Wood Budget Analyst Jennifer Fox Executive Assistant(s) Carrie Curry Carol VanDyke National Capability: USGS Library Richard Huffine National Capability: Center for Core Science Informatics Cheryl Morris National Geospatial Program Program Coordinator Mark DeMulder Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee Ivan DeLoatch National Biological Information Management and Delivery Program Coordinator Dru Burks National Geologic and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Program Coordinator Tammy Dickinson National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program Program Coordinator Peter Lyttle National Capability: National Geospatial Technical Operations Center Kari Craun

22. Thank you Questions?