ISE outlines expansion proposal in white paper

August 13, 2012

By David Perera
FierceGovernmentIT

A white paper from the Information Sharing Environment program office proposes using legal authorities to expand the ISE approach toward information sharing to areas beyond counterterrorism

The ISE uses an XML framework known as the National Information Exchange Model for the sharing of homeland security-related information among federal agencies and with state and local fusion centers. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 has the implicit requirement that federal agencies must organize their information management approaches "so that they contribute to the delivery of the ISE," the white paper (.pdf) states.

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