The Information Sharing Environment (ISE)
March 2007
Intelligence community embraces Web 2.0 tools.
The Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that the country’s 2004 terrorism prevention act mandated is beginning to take shape in a loose policy framework established by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But intelligence experts say social−networking technologies for sharing intelligence information−−wikis, blogs and mashups, for example−−are developing faster than the policies governing their use. The gap is real, said Ambassador Thomas McNamara, who leads 25 employees at ODNI headquarters and works with the Information Sharing Council, a representative board of federal departments that hold intelligence assets. “The technology is sitting there waiting to be used, but a whole series of decisions have to be made at the policy level.” In November 2006, McNamara released a long−awaited implementation plan for the ISE that reveals how the government will implement the intelligence−sharing provision of the 2004 law. McNamara said that information sharing is fairly well−established within intelligence agencies but less so among agencies. “What we’re doing is adding the next level,” he said. That requires creating standards for broader cooperation and managing access to various levels of classified information. The ISE’s information technology architecture will conform to the Office of Management and Budget’s federal enterprise architecture, McNamara said.
Source: http://www.fcw.com/article97883−03−12−07
Intelligence community embraces Web 2.0 tools.
The Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that the country’s 2004 terrorism prevention act mandated is beginning to take shape in a loose policy framework established by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But intelligence experts say social−networking technologies for sharing intelligence information−−wikis, blogs and mashups, for example−−are developing faster than the policies governing their use. The gap is real, said Ambassador Thomas McNamara, who leads 25 employees at ODNI headquarters and works with the Information Sharing Council, a representative board of federal departments that hold intelligence assets. “The technology is sitting there waiting to be used, but a whole series of decisions have to be made at the policy level.” In November 2006, McNamara released a long−awaited implementation plan for the ISE that reveals how the government will implement the intelligence−sharing provision of the 2004 law. McNamara said that information sharing is fairly well−established within intelligence agencies but less so among agencies. “What we’re doing is adding the next level,” he said. That requires creating standards for broader cooperation and managing access to various levels of classified information. The ISE’s information technology architecture will conform to the Office of Management and Budget’s federal enterprise architecture, McNamara said.
Source: http://www.fcw.com/article97883−03−12−07
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