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AFCEA Intelligence Committee Tackles Integration Impasse
by D.J. Suberk
With the 9/11 hearings becoming a near-national obsession and intelligence community officials testifying to the structural, technological and legal impediments to effective information sharing throughout that community, the AFCEA Intelligence Committee has stepped forward with specific recommendations. A white paper assessing the impasse, titled “National Security and Horizontal Integration,” was released at AFCEA’s Spring Intelligence Symposium in April. The paper focuses on steps that can be taken now to leverage intelligence community gains from industry.
The point of departure for the paper is the Intelligence Community Horizontal Integration Senior Steering Group’s call for conformance of legal, security and policy guidance to a consumer-centric construct. The paper succinctly describes and assesses two approaches in use today and recommends a third approach to achieve effective information sharing. The third model, business-to-business exchanges, is one that already has proven itself effective in the private sector and allows continued autonomy of major components. It enables a variety of participants with a variety of needs to share business processes. The paper describes in detail how this industry-tested technology could effectively serve the diverse needs of the intelligence community. It includes specific recommendations on steps to be taken to overcome security process, program organization, architecture and engineering, and statute and regulation impediments to integration as well as provides a timeline for implementation of the recommendations.
The AFCEA Intelligence Committee is a group of 45 government and industry volunteers who oversee the association’s outreach to the U.S. intelligence community. Dr. Mark Lowenthal, vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council and assistant director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, chairs the committee.
To read the entire white paper, go to www.afcea.org/downloads/intelwhitepaper.asp.
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