Glossary of Terms

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• National Incident Management System (NIMS)

  National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a common, nationwide approach to enable the whole community to work together to manage all threats and hazards. NIMS applies to all incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity.

  See: FEMA website

• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)

  The National Wildfire Coordinating Group provides national leadership to enable interoperable wildland fire operations among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners.  

  See: NWCG website

• Nightly Batch Process

  IQCS will automatically examine every record in the database, check data in responders’ records against position criteria and update experience status. Some data entries result in real-time changes to qualifications status.  However, others will not take effect until the nightly batch process is complete or when the ‘Show Qual Card Details’ is clicked/run on the Incident Qualifications Card screen.

• Nomination Coordinator Role

  This IQCS role includes being able to view responder training records, view instructor history, define course sessions, course session enrollment and nomination flow. This position will not be able to edit the responder training record, manage instructor history, or add a non-employee for session management.

  See IQCS Role Matrix for specific page access. 

• Nomination Workflow Process

  Responders training nominations are submitted electronically in IQCS which enables the course prioritization at the local, zone, geographic, and/or national levels. Roles with access are Training Officer, Training Coordinator, and Nomination Coordinator.

• Non-Employee

  Employees of non-member agencies (e.g. States, Contractors, non-wildfire agencies) can be added as a non-employee to create the required EmplID to document personnel as an instructor or student in training session management. IQCS is not the system of record for the non-employee’s qualifications.

• NWCG Position Code & Position Title

  See: NWCG Data Standard 

  The NWCG Position Naming Board provides national leadership to maintain incident management position title and code (mnemonic) consistency throughout the wildland fire community. 

• NWCG Unit Identifier (Unit ID)

  See: NWCG Data Standard

  See: NWCG Unit IDx

  The NWCG Unit Identifier Board (UIB) provides national leadership in the approval and use of Unit Identifiers in support of effective fire management decision-making.

   

• NWCG Data Standards, PMS 910

  NWCG data standards (data element and geospatial data layer) provide specifications that enable the common usage of data across wildland fire information systems.

  See: NWCG Data Standards, PMS 910

• NWCG Standards for Wildland Fire Position Qualifications, PMS 310-1

  The NWCG Standards for Wildland Fire Position Qualifications, PMS 310-1 standardizes the minimum NWCG requirements for federal, state, and local agencies in providing resources to fill a national interagency request for all types of wildland fire incidents.

• NWCG Incident Position Description Catalog

  See: NWCG Incident Position Description Catalog

• NWCG Standard

  See NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

• National Incident Management System

  See NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205