Sypherlink NIE Gateway™ for Public Safety
Simplified, effective and cost-efficient NIEM/LEXS conformance
Individual agencies play a critical role in the success of local, state, regional and federal data sharing and intelligence efforts. The NIEM framework and LEXS standard provide a common language by which to communicate this information, enabling agencies to:

• Share and receive critical information with other public safety agencies, enhancing decision making capabilities
• Benefit from new federal and state grant funding opportunities, which require conformance to NIEM and LEXS

While agencies may fully intend to support the NIEM framework and conform to the LEXS standard, it is difficult to ignore the fact that a considerable investment of resources, domain expertise, training, time, effort and cost is required.

Sypherlink understands the importance of compliance – and the challenges associated with conformance – and offers agencies a simplified, effective and cost-efficient solution.


The Sypherlink NIE Gateway significantly reduces the time, cost
and effort involved with conforming to NIEM/LEXS.

A Turn-Key Solution for NIEM/LEXS Conformance
The Sypherlink National Information Exchange (NIE) Gateway is the first – and only – commercially-available, off-the-shelf solution for the timely, effective and cost-efficient conformance of NIEM/LEXS standards. The NIE Gateway enables agencies to meet and maintain conformance, without having to build the physical and human infrastructure to support such an effort.

By leveraging the NIE Gateway, public safety agencies are able to:

• Conform to NIEM/LEXS – in a simple, effective, and cost-efficient manner
• Protect existing technology investments – through an interface built directly to their current CAD/RMS system
• Focus on public safety – and not on information technology and standards
• Stay ahead of the requirements curve – easily embracing changing standards and funding opportunities
• Leverage Sypherlink’s expertise – in supporting state and federal information sharing initiatives (such as N-DEx)

The Sypherlink NIE Gateway consists of the following software and service components:

Unique Technology

• Sypherlink’s patented discovery and mapping tools for accelerating the process of determining how agency data relates to the local, state or national systems with which it will be shared
• LEXS transaction engine, to turn agency data into a LEXS format, conformant with the NIEM framework

Domain Expertise
Sypherlink’s dedicated National Security practice provides more than 50 years of experience in law enforcement and integrated justice, including:

• Expertise designing and developing local, regional, state and national data- sharing initiatives, including FBI N-DEx, Florida’s FLEX and R-LEX, and Ohio’s OLLEISN programs
• Hands-on knowledge of justice standards, including GJXDM, NIEM frameworks and the law enforcement LEXS standard. In fact, Sypherlink’s team built the first operational statewide LEXS-conformant interface to support Florida’s R-LEX program
• Deep expertise with integrated justice vendor systems, including hands-on experience with more than 150 leading CAD/RMS, and in-house systems

Managed Services
Sypherlink offers packaged service offerings that include one or all of the following:

• Mapping – assessing agency data fields and determining how they relate to the local, state or national systems with which they will be shared
• Validation – reviewing mapped data to ensure it is accurate, conformant and ready to be shared
• Maintenance – ongoing maintenance of interface and standards conformance

Funding Opportunities
Sypherlink’s National Security Practice – led by Matt Mayer, former executive director of DHS’s Office of Grants and Training – is ready to assist in:

• Discovering new grant funding opportunities
• Grant writing and submission

Value-Added Partner Services & Applications
In addition to Sypherlink’s wealth of technology and domain expertise, we provide value through our strong partnerships with leading:

• CAD/RMS application vendors
• Systems integrators
• Data management partners
• Providers of public data, such as D&B and Acxiom