21st Century JFO

Due to a continuing lapse in appropriations/government shutdown, a significant amount of FEMA employees are still furloughed until further notice. For this reason, the RFI has been amended to extended and additional week from Friday, October 11th, 2013 to Friday, October 18th, 2013.

A supplemental assessment will be made next week on whether or not extend the due date again. Thank you, Lilian

Good morning,

Due to a lapse in appropriations, a significant amount of FEMA employees have been furloughed until further notice. Due to the shutdown, the RFI has been amended to extend the due date one week from Friday, October 4th, 2013 to Friday, October 11th, 2013.

A secondary assessment will be made one week from today, October 1st, 2013, on whether or not extend the due date again.


Thank you,
Lilian

Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5, Management of Domestic Incidents, February 28, 2003, was intended to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents by establishing a single, comprehensive national approach to domestic incident management.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) JFO (Joint Field Operations) is one of the principal organizational elements designed to implement and facilitate the domestic incident management responsibilities of the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The JFO is a temporary Federal multiagency coordination center established locally to facilitate field-level domestic incident management activities related to prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery when activated by the Secretary.

FEMA information technology (IT) professionals work in a highly dynamic environment, and therefore must ensure constant readiness to support disaster relief efforts while at the same time efficiently and effectively providing on-going IT service delivery.

The focus of this market research is in support of an enterprise wide initiative to improve OCIO service delivery to JFOs by identifying and defining a turn-key solution for provisioning wireless communications (voice, video, and data) specific to FEMA JFO facilities that will meet the IT requirements for the entire agency.