Thank you for making WIS3 a success-Outbriefs and notes from WIS3

Thank you to those who made the Workshop on Information Sharing and Safeguarding Standards (WIS3), or Standards Palooza, such a success – standards development organizations, technology associations, civilian agencies, defense and intelligence agencies, ISE state and local partners, and the procurement community all came together to work on information sharing.

Workshop and Panels
WIS3’s panels of industry and government leaders discussed the challenges and opportunities with standards-based information sharing. Leaders from OMG, OGC, OASIS, NIEM, and IJIS came together to discuss standards compliance and horizontal synchronization of standards efforts. The day ended with a panel of senior government officials from ODNI, DHS, DOS, and DOD, who shared their reactions.

The key collaborative component of the event was the four breakout sessions and following are the session leads' summary and conclusion presentations - and I'd like to personally thank OMG, AFEI, IJIS, and ACT-IAC for hosting such productive breakout discussions.

• Track 1: Supporting Standardized Information Exchanges Across Government
• Track 2: Identity and Access Management Across Government
• Track 3: Federated Information Sharing Frameworks and Services
• Track 4: Translation of Business Requirements into Solutions

A Rich Community
Our office is committed to building on the event and continuing to strengthen this community of action. The WIS3 presentations, meeting materials, and session notes and results will be posted here on ISE.gov in the coming weeks. Additionally, I will be continuing this discussion and presenting about these topics at OMG in Santa Clara next week.

Most importantly, we want to hear your feedback!  Please use our new comment feature below to share your views about WIS3 and the breakout session summary briefs, as well as how useful the WIS3 content was for your mission, what you enjoyed most about WIS3, and what you think could be improved. Or if you’d rather, email us at outreach@ise.gov.

Finally, I also enjoyed reading this summary of the event in Richard Soley's blog post. Please also let us know if you wrote a summary of the event on your blog or elsewhere.