In this year's SEMIC 2014 conference, our keynote speaker Mr. Kshemendra Paul Program Manager will share with us the US experience and challenges of the Information Sharing Environment.
The Information Sharing Environment (ISE) in the United States has set out a vision of national security through responsible information sharing. President Obama has appointed Mr Paul in 2010 as Program Manager (PM- ISE) with a government-wide authority to plan, oversee and manage use of the ISE. The mission of the ISE is to improve the management, discovery, fusing, sharing, delivery of, and collaboration around terrorism-related information to enhance national security and help keep our people safe. Federal agencies and state, local, tribal, and private sector partners—the ISE mission partners—have the mission responsibility to help protect our people and our institutions. Consequently, these agencies deliver, and operate, the ISE and are accountable for sharing to enable end-to-end mission processes that support counterterrorism. Examples of this include terrorism watch listing, person and cargo screening, and suspicious activity reporting. In simple words ISE follows a data-centric model, agencies own their data but data becomes searchable.
The ISE is a respond to challenges as lack of semantics, policy coordination and as no single agency or department has the mandate or the tools necessary to empower and deliver the ISE in the same way as the PM-ISE today. The role of the PM-ISE, therefore, is to coordinate and facilitate the development of a network-centric ISE by focusing on standards and architecture, security and access, associated privacy protections, and best practices. The PM-ISE serves as a change agent and enabler for innovation and discovery in providing ideas, tools, resources, and management support to mission partners who then apply them to their own agencies or communities. In particular, the PM-ISE relentlessly advocates identifying, integrating, and sharing best practices. Focus on best practices raises confidence, lowers risk, and accelerates adoption, use, and reuse of key capabilities.
Examples of such reuse include:
- Reuse of standards and architecture, information exchanges, capabilities, and infrastructure;
- Reuse across the terrorism information sharing mission, across complementary missions, and into new mission areas unrelated to terrorism but important to mission partners; and
- Reuse leading to time savings and cost avoidance, bringing together the power of smart management and effective governance.
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