FEMA Plans to Use Web Services for Disaster Claims
One might ask, "What the hell took so long?!?" And they would be justified in doing so.
Wilson P. Dizard III writes in GCN.com:
The storm-wracked Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to accelerate payments to disaster victims by switching its main system for tracking and calculating claims from a client-server application to a Web services system, agency CIO Barry West said today.
“We are working with [Congress] to get more funding for NEMIS and telecommunications capability,” West told a breakfast meeting sponsored by Input of Reston, Va. Disaster victims use the National Emergency Management System to apply for benefits online, and FEMA employees use it to take applications by phone.
NEMIS includes links to the systems of other agencies that FEMA works with, including the Small Business Administration, and to other Homeland Security Department apps inside and outside the emergency management agency, West said.
posted by Fergie @ 11/29/2005 12:27:00 PM
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