US Gov on the Value of Open Source Info & Info Sharing Environments

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Below is confirmation of the immense value placed on the field of Open Source Intel and Information Sharing. We, the Global Hindu Collective, are at the forefront of this Information Sharing Environment and Open Source Intelligence Research. Now if we could just take the next step and develop effective and timely repsonses based on the info gathered and shared. V

The Center will "advance the Intelligence Community’s exploitation of openly available information to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video geospatial data,

photos, and commercial imagery.

Integrating ISR-Information Sharing Environment (Q&A to follow)

Moderator - Brig Gen Kevin Henabray

Mobilization Assistant to the Director, Air Force Strategic Planning, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force * "Protecting the Homeland Through Better Information Sharing" Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara

Program Manager, Directorate for National Intelligence

"Open-source intelligence, or that which is collected through sources available to the

general public globally, while long a tool of foreign intelligence-oriented agencies, has

become relatively more important in the post-Cold War era. One indication of this relative

increase in prominence is the Director of National Intelligence’s establishment, pursuant to

a recommendation of the WMD Commission, of an Open Source Center in November 2005.

The Center will "advance the Intelligence Community’s exploitation of openly available

information to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video geospatial data,

photos, and commercial imagery. The Center’s functions will include collection, analysis

and research, training, and information technology management to facilitate government-

wide access and use. The Center will build on the established expertise of the CIA’s

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), which has provided the U.S. Government

a broad range of highly valued products and service since 1941." See Office of the Director

of National Intelligence Press Release No. 6-05, Nov. 8, 2005. H.R. 5003, the Homeland

Security Open Source Intelligence Enhancement Act of 2006, would require the proposed

Under Secretaryfor Intelligence and Analysis to "make full and efficient use of open source

intelligence by acquiring, gathering, processing, and analyzing open source information to

produce open source intelligence products."

Now it is time to begin building capabilities that make the ISE operational to the men and

women who support the national effort to detect, prevent, respond to and recover from

acts of terrorism, and to convey the sense of urgency with which the Information Sharing

Environment (ISE) must be developed."

SOURCES

By Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara

Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment

Before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and

Terrorism Risk Assessment

House Committee on Homeland Security

"Building on the Information Sharing Environment:

Addressing Challenges of Implementation"

2 P.M. May 10, 2006

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CRS Report for Congress

Received through the CRS Web

Order Code RL33616

Homeland Security Intelligence: Perceptions,

Statutory Definitions, and Approaches

August 18, 2006

Todd Masse

Specialist in Domestic Intelligence and Counterterrorism

Domestic Social Policy

http://www.ncsi.com/Air_Force06/agenda.shtml

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33616.pdf

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/051006mcnamara.pdf.

 

 

 

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