Standards – DOJ is working closely with federal, state, and local agencies, actual practitioners, national organizations and vendors to develop vendor-neutral standards for defining information formats, packaging and exchange standards. These standards include:

• The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is the result of a collaborative effort by the justice and homeland security communities to produce a set of common, well-defined data elements to be used as the basis for data exchange development and harmonization. NIEM is a core set of building blocks that are used as a consistent baseline for creating exchange documents and transactions across the Department, the federal government and between the federal government and state, local and tribal organizations. More...
• Today, the most widely used NIEM-conformant exchanges include several based on the LEISP Exchange Specifications (LEXS). LEXS is a family of IEPDs (Information Exchange Package Development) that implements NIEM for many common types of law enforcement information exchanges. LEXS specifies how law enforcement information should be packaged and delivered to information sharing applications and how partnering applications can implement federated search capabilities. More...