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The General Services Administration's decision to abandon a 50-year old conference franchise, known as IRMCO, in favor of a new one-day symposium dedicated to advancing acquisition, proved to be a winning move for GSA Thursday and a step forward for the acquisition community.
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The work: Serving as the driving force behind the Obama administration’s efforts to strengthen the safeguards on national security information in the wake of the WikiLeaks data breach.
The impact: Howell created the necessary mechanisms, metrics, and processes to improve the security of information on classified networks and support vital information-sharing objectives.
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One of the few remaining challenges around information sharing is not culture or policy, but technology.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cloud computing will play a major role as the nation’s spy agencies work to integrate computer and information systems to share more data securely.
Cloud computing has “huge potential for achieving savings and promoting integration,” Clapper told an audience today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy group in Washington.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper delivered the keynote address at The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) event, "Information Sharing: Adapting and Improving an Expanded ISE" Thursday morning. Watch on CSPAN.
Over the past year, the threat environment facing our nation has evolved from one that primarily emanates from outside our borders to one that increasingly comes from within our communities.
By Jason Miller
Audio Interview on Federal News Radio
President Barack Obama's executive order last week codified many of the steps agencies took in the last 11 months since WikiLeaks made a huge cache of classified information public.
But what may not be readily apparent in the mandate is the expansion of the role of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE).
