Call to Order and Welcome

Robert D. Jamison, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.  (Invited)

Secretary Jamison plays a leading role in the Department's integrated efforts to analyze, manage, and reduce risk.  Mr. Jamison's previous position was as the Deputy Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration.

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David M. Wennergren, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology / Deputy Chief Information Officer.

Mr. wennergren provides top-level advocacy in creating a unified information management and technology vision and ensuring the delivery of the capabilities required to achieve the Department’s transformation to net centric operations. In addition to his duties as Deputy CIO, Mr. Wennergren is the Vice Chair of the U.S. Government’s Federal CIO Council.

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Panel Discussion – Establishing a Federation

Moderator: Bryan Aucoin, President, Alanthus

This panel will address the initial considerations in establishing a federation: agreeing on the mission need, a formal method for governance and compliance, and the rules and policies that establish information mobility.

Speakers:

Lunch with Speaker

The Honorable Michael W. Wynne, former Secretary of the Air Force and former Undersecretary of Defense (AT&L)

Panel Discussion – Governance and the Trust Fabric

Moderator: Paul Grant, ASD (NII)/DoD CIO

This panel addresses instantiation of the federation once agreements and basic policies are in place.

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Panel Discussion – Case Studies

Moderator: Peter Alterman, Ph.D., Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Technology Strategy, GSA

A discussion among organizations who are relying on federations as a means of accomplishing their missions.

Speakers:

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Identify what a federation is:

• methods and mechanisms for creating a federation
• different purposes and types of federations
• policies, agreements and technologies
• self-forming, self-organizing, self-regulating
• enabler of interoperability in specific domains

Discuss governance of a federation:

• processes and rules for operating a federation
• roles of participants and trusted third-parties
• necessary trust regimes
• lessening the administrative burden

Present selected case studies from across Government and Industry

• Identity assurance
• Collaboration
• International

Examine the concept of a “maturity model”

• policy
• process
• technology

• trust

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Information Sharing

In its broadest sense the term information sharing could be applied to any situation where there are participants who need to collaborate and exchange knowledge with regard to specific situations.  Today, the implied application for the term as dictated by common use is the sharing of terrorist-related data.  However, the mechanisms that mobilize information and enable its sharing can be quite common across various domains. 

U.S. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States made specific recommendations in 2004 regarding national priorities in the sharing of information aimed at increasing our security from the threat of terrorism.  The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 mandated the establishment of a Federal Information Sharing Environment, currently operated under the Program Manager for Information Sharing Environment.

Clearly, information sharing is now an operational goal for Federal agencies and Departments.  However, it can not happen without proper regimes, frameworks and governance.  Policies and rule sets must be in place to enable information to be shared.  Information mobility depends on the right frameworks, procedures and protections in a trust-based environment.  Absent these, information can not be made mobile, and thus can not be shared.

The National Strategy for Information Sharing is focused on improving the sharing of homeland security, terrorism, and law enforcement information related to terrorism within and among all levels of governments and the private sector. 

This strategy is for homeland security information, terrorism information, and law enforcement information which is found across all levels of government as well as in the private sector and international partners.  Achieving the vision laid out by this and other national strategies will require a re-thinking of old paradigms regarding how we deal with information.

In this regard the Department of Defense has the same information sharing challenges as it works to become more net-centric and to have interoperability with its partners at all of the same levels.

Information sharing for DoD is defined as “Making Information Available to participants (people, processes or systems).”  Information sharing includes cultural,

managerial and technical behaviors by which one participant leverages the information created or held by another.  The DoD touchstones of information sharing are: Culture, Policy, Governance, Economics and Resources, Technology and Infrastructure.

The DoD Information Sharing Strategy guides the Department’s sharing of information within the DoD and with Federal, state, local, tribal, coalition partners, foreign governments and security forces, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, hereafter referred to as external partners.

The goals of the DoD strategy are: (1) promote, encourage, and incentivize sharing; (2) achieve an extended enterprise; (3) strengthen agility in order to accommodate unanticipated partners and events; and (4) ensure trust across organizations.

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