Patriot Data Solutions Group Helps NJ State Police Successfully Exchange Data From NJ-DEx to FBI's N-DEx

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patriot Data Solutions Group, Inc. ("PDSG"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PTSC), announced today that its customer, the New Jersey State Police, has become the first state to use PDSG's commercial-off-the-shelf ("COTS") solution to accomplish state to N-DEx data sharing. The vision of N-DEx, initiated by the FBI, is to enable the sharing of complete, accurate, timely, and useful information across jurisdictional boundaries and to provide new investigative tools that enhance the nation's ability to fight crime and terrorism. The New Jersey State Police are using the Crossflo DataExchange® (CDX) platform, provided by PDSG, as their COTS solution. CDX enables their organization to effectively transmit data from the New Jersey Data Exchange (NJ-DEx) to the FBI's National Law Enforcement Data Exchange (N-DEx) in full compliance with current N-DEx standards.

PDSG has been working with the New Jersey State Police to implement some of the earliest standards-based cross-jurisdictional data sharing on a national basis.  PDSG installed its COTS solution on the agency's server, preloaded with the N-DEx schema, developed the data mapping from their system, and shepherded the data through the FBI's ConTesA acceptance process. The FBI's N-DEx Program Office staff utilizes ConTesA to assist agencies in validating their mapped data for the N-DEx system to ensure compliance with the N-DEx IEPD*. States using the Crossflo DataExchange® Connect for N-DEx solution may therefore participate and share information with N-DEx quickly and efficiently, saving time and money, and without requiring the FBI's N-DEx Program Office staff having to expend as many resources.

"The type of scalable, non-disruptive solution that PDSG provides is ideal for law enforcement agencies from the local level up through the state level to participate in and support the national data-sharing initiatives so critical for prevention of crime and terrorist activity," said Brian Mooney, Sr. VP Operations with PDSG.  "Our demonstrated ability to stand up a robust exchange among disparate databases addresses a fundamental need in establishing effective, rapid information-sharing. We believe in the DOJ's and FBI's mission to make N-DEx the core system for criminal life cycle data in the U.S. We also believe it is incumbent upon us as a U.S. company to co-invest in the process and make this as cost-affordable as possible for law enforcement agencies that would benefit from N-DEx connectivity, but are challenged by limited budgets."

PDSG began working with the New Jersey State Police in 2004 to enable data exchange from county and other local law enforcement agencies with the state repository, now known as NJ-DEx.  Since then, PDSG has continued to work with a number of the 21 New Jersey counties to expand the federated data-sharing model throughout the more than 500 separate law enforcement agencies in NJ, linking them to the state and ultimately with the FBI.

The N-DEx initiative is part of the Federal effort to bring together data from state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, including incident and case reports, booking and incarceration data, and parole/probation information into an integrated criminal life cycle system.  N-DEx detects relationships between people, vehicle/property, location, and/or crime characteristics. It "connects the dots" between data that is not seemingly related and supports multi-jurisdictional task forces -- enhancing national information sharing, links between regional and state systems, and virtual regional information sharing. The ultimate goal is to transform all criminal justice data into knowledge for the entire justice community.

Using its experience in translating incident data to N-DEx, PDSG is pleased to offer Crossflo DataExchange® Connect for N-DEx, a solution built on the CDX data exchange platform. With this program PDSG personnel can install the software on an agency's server, preloaded with the N-DEx schema, develop the data mapping from a source system, and shepherd the data through the ConTesA acceptance process. This enables agencies to quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively share data with the FBI's N-DEx system.

About PDSG

Patriot Data Solutions Group, Inc. ("PDSG") provides products and solutions that enable mission-critical applications to significantly accelerate the time to value and reduce total cost of ownership for their data-sharing initiatives.  The company's flagship product, the Crossflo DataExchange® solution, helps link systems together and facilitates secure data sharing for any information exchange initiative in the public safety and criminal justice markets.  The solution has been designed to work directly with a number of national data sharing standards, including NIEM (National Information Exchange Model), and the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) and HL7 (Health Level 7). PDSG also offers Vigilys, a software product that leverages data accessed by CDX and provides a shared, map-based, common operating picture that allows field based first responders and office based emergency managers the ability to visualize incident responses and collaborate in real-time. PDSG's technological innovation is backed by subject matter expertise and proven methodologies, facilitating the rapid exchange of actionable data in mission-critical applications such as clinical quality improvement and emergency services response management.

PDSG has been working with some of the nation's earliest and most innovative data exchange projects including one of the most advanced statewide data-sharing initiatives to be deployed in the United States.  PDSG is the data-sharing group of Patriot Scientific Corporation, which is headquartered in Carlsbad, California (OTC BB: PTSC). For more information on Patriot Data Solutions Group, visit www.pdsg.com.

*An IEPD, or Information Exchange Package Documentation, is a specification for a data exchange and defines a particular data exchange. For example, there is an IEPD that defines the information content and structure for an Amber Alert, a bulletin or message sent by law enforcement agencies to announce the suspected abduction of a child.

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