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ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel
The American National Standards Institute's Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) has as its mission to identify existing consensus standards, or, if none exist, assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and those sectors requesting assistance to accelerate development and adoption of consensus standards critical to homeland security. The ANSI-HSSP promotes a positive, cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors in order to meet the needs of the nation in this critical area.
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Overview

Established by ANSI in February 2003, per its charter the ANSI-HSSP has as its scope to catalog, promote, accelerate and coordinate the timely development of consensus standards within the national and international voluntary standards systems intended to meet identified homeland security needs, and communicate the existence of such standards appropriately to governmental units and the private sector. The Panel supports the work of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate’s Office of Standards.


Participation

Participation in the ANSI-HSSP is open to representatives of industry, government, professional societies, trade associations, standards developers, and consortia groups directly involved in U.S. Homeland Security standardization.

The roster of Panel Participants is posted for information. Members of the ANSI-HSSP Steering Committee are listed in bold.

Any organization wishing to become a Panel Participant should contact the ANSI-HSSP Secretary (mdeane@ansi.org; 212.642.4992) for further details on how to join.

ANSI-HSSP officers:

Co-Chair (private-sector):
Christian Dubay
Vice President and Chief Engineer
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Co-Chair (public-sector):
Gordon Gillerman
Conformity Assessment Advisor for Homeland Security
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Secretary (ANSI)
Matt Deane
Director, Homeland Security Standards

Organizational Structure

Efforts are ongoing examining standardization in the following workshop areas:

Final deliverables have been produced for the following workshops:

Meeting Calendar

The seventh Plenary meeting of the ANSI-HSSP will be held on October 2, 2008 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. The Plenary will focus on Public Law 110-53, Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007, and relevant programs to the homeland security community such as Title IX on Private Sector Preparedness. Registration information and further details will be posted shortly.

The sixth Plenary meeting was held October 3-4, 2007 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, in conjunction with the World Standards Council (WSC) International Workshop on Transit Security.

The fifth Plenary meeting was held September 25-26, 2006 at New York University in New York City.

The fourth Plenary meeting was held on September 29-30, 2005, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD.

Document Library

The The ANSI-HSSP Document Library contains documents relating to the work of the Panel and are available to Panel Participants.

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Staff Contact

Matt Deane
Director, Homeland Security Standards
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10036B
Tel: 1.212.642.4992
Fax: 1.212.840.2298
E-mail: mdeane@ansi.org

Jessica Carl
Program Administrator, ANSI-HSSP
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 1.212.642.4903
Fax: 1.212.840.2298
E-mail: jcarl@ansi.org




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