CivMil.org will be shutting down in the next few days to undergo a drastic remodel. When the site comes back up it will provide information aggregation services related to civil-military issues. There is no action required on the part of our current members. Just note that data from the current site will not be migrated to the new site. The Golden Phoenix information will be archived and the new site will begin with a clean slate. We do not expect the new site will support or require usernames and passwords. The site will run as a public service and will be primarily read only.

Congratulations to John Persano and George Bressler for making the Federal Computer Week's Fed 100:

http://fcw.com/pages/2009-fed-100-complete-list.aspx

Anyone who has knowledge of this subject, please respond.

I am collecting research for my graduate degree from GP participants on government or other standards that exist for communications interoperability, certifications of meeting those standards, and organizations that evaluate and issue those certifications. What national interoperability standards are industry attempting to meet? Who is creating and certifying these standards? What certifications do response organization purchasers look for to ensure systems are interoperable and meet criteria for federal funding / grants?

We are assembling a tabbed COP that will show Golden Phoenix events as they happen, San Diego situational awareness, world events happening in parallel to GP.  Maps, alerts, RSS, images  and other feeds will be able to be integrated, and we can absorb Common Alerting Protocol Alerts as well.  The goal will be a comprehensive view of all activities happening, along with live links to video feeds and participants websites.

California National Guard Continues Battle Against Northern California Wildfires

California

National Guard Office of Public Affairs

MATHER FIELD,

Calif.

- The California National Guard (CNG), with support from National Guard equipment and personnel from various other states is currently providing twelve rotary aircraft, eight fixed-wing aircraft, and more than 200 personnel to assist in extinguishing various northern California wildfires today.  

Some people have joined CivMil.org using email address from domains like AOL and gMail; while this is perfectly acceptable, it will slow the process of approval for group subscriptions.    The proces typically takes less than 24 hours, but due to the increasing interest in some of the groups on the site it will require follow-up if we do not recognize your username and email.

STAR-TIDES, one of our partners in Golden Phoenix and civmil.org, has created a group to discuss the response surrounding Myanmar relief.

http://www.star-tides.net/myanmar

Governor's Office of Homeland Security Annual Conference

Mark
your calendars to attend the Annual VOAD Conference

"16th Annual VOAD Conference: Pathways to Partnership"

DATE: May 5 – 8, 2008;
Preconference Meetings Monday and Tuesday. Kick-Off Events Start
Tuesday night. AVC concludes Thursday night with ARVOAD Sponsored
Event.

LOCATION: Peabody Little Rock
www.peabodylittlerock.com

Mobile pharmacies to help in emergencies

By Mary
Mosquera

Published on March 19,
2008

FCC closes spectrum auction

Fresh strategy needed for public safety network

ByAlice Lipowicz

CivMil.org will be upgrading servers Monday, March 17th from about 1700-2200 Central.  Once the server upgrades are complete we will start the site upgrades.  Once the site comes back up there may be a lag until the domain name properly resolves.  Expect that the servers and the site will be back up and fully functional by Tuesday, March 18th, 0600 Central.
Regards,

Coby

CivMil.org now supports persistent logins.  You will now see a checkbox below the username and password field in the login block (see image).  If you check this box and login your credentials will be remembered in that browser for 30 days.  By using this feature you will minimize the "Access Denied" problems we are having.  But there are a few things to keep in mind:

CivMil.org will shut down for about 15 minutes Wednesday, Feb 27 at 2100 Central.  I need to make a few quick fixes to our date and calendar functions.
Thanks,
Coby

UPDATE: Maintenance Complete.

CivMil.org will be down for maintenance starting Sunday, Feb 17th (tonight) at 2300 CST. We hope to have upgrades and maintenance complete by 0300 CST 18 Feb. There will be another announcement when the site is available again.

2008 Homeland Security S&T Stakeholders Conference-West
"Putting First Responders First"
January 14-17, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
www.ndia.org/meetings/8690

Registration is now open for the 2008 Homeland Security S&T Stakeholders
Conference-West!

Please subscribe to the CivMil Group and post any comments pertaining to the CivMil site here. A summary of what we know so far:

1) Map interface, for those who use Internet Explorer you will need version 7.0 to view maps. Mozilla Firefox seems to work fine.