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A Chronology of Enterprise Architecture
in Wildland Fire Management

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  • 1976 (January): the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) is established to expand operational cooperation and coordination of wildland fire agencies within the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. The National Association of State Foresters was included July 1978 (PL 95-313.).
  • 1995 (December): the first interagency Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy is written and adopted by the Secretary of the US Department of the Interior and of the US Department of Agriculture (Bruce Babbitt and Dan Glickman, respectively.) Policy is developed under the umbrella of wildland firefighter and public safety, after the tragic 1994 wildland fire season. Policy addresses Interagency Cooperation as a key policy standard.
  • 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act – Legislates that each federal Department and Agency has the responsibility to establish and maintain Enterprise Architecture (EA) programs as directed in Act.
  • 1996 NWCG publishes its “NWCG IRM Strategy Project and Wildland Fire Business Model” Report. Report is an interagency product that identifies the need for an Enterprise Architecture program for the interagency wildland fire community.
  • 2000 (August): The NWCG Program Management Office (PMO) is established to coordinate interagency wildland fire automation projects and to establish and maintain an interagency wildland fire enterprise architecture that represents the business objectives of the federal and state wildland fire community.
  • 2002 (April): the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) is established as a cooperative interagency organization dedicated to achieving consistent implementation of the goals, actions, and policies in the 2000 National Fire Plan, the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and the 2002 Federal Wildland Fire Policy Revision.
  • 2003 (August): GAO publishes “Geospatial Information Technologies Hold Promise for Wildland Fire Management, but Challenges Remain” that identifies the need for national wildland fire enterprise architecture.
  • 2004 (March): The National Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) charters the National Wildland Fire Enterprise Architecture (NWFEASG) Steering Group to facilitate the development of the NWFEA program.
  • 2005 (October): NWCG sponsors the NWFEA Project.
  • 2007 (October) First Draft of NWFEA Blueprint delivered
  • 2008 (July) NWFEA Blueprint delivered to NWCG and FEC
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