The IRM-PMO is a cross-agency collaborative team chartered by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG). The IRM-PMO is partnered with the NWCG's Information Resource Management Working Team to serve the wildland fire community by promoting and facilitating effective information and automation initiatives.
The IRM-PMO is charged with establishing and maintaining an NWCG enterprise-wide information architecture consisting of documented principles, rules and standards to guide development of wildland fire information systems.
The IRM-PMO provides an interagency perspective to management of information systems and facilitates inter-project coordination. Because the IRM-PMO is an interagency staff, it is not driven by agency-specific agendas. The IRM-PMO works for all the wildland fire entities and ensures that they are equally and fairly represented.
The IRM-PMO also provides a global perspective to information systems. The IRM-PMO maintains an enterprise model that considers how each system affects other systems and processes in the entire wildland fire business community. The IRM-PMO Architects work with projects to move toward an integrated enterprise architecture and reduce the number of redundant and stand-alone systems.
With a full-time staff, the IRM-PMO serves as a key point of contact for information services for NWCG.
All information needs of the wildland fire community are being met across interagency environments. Wildland fire IRM is the model for collaboration, innovation, and effective use of people, money, and time.
We provide guidance, expertise, and tools to enable development, consolidation, and integration of information resource management systems for the wildland fire community. Our stakeholders rely on this foundation to successfully build and effectively use products to support operations and management of the interagency fire mission.
Our current charter [91K, PDF] from the NWCG was signed on May 15, 2001.