The barriers to information sharing among all govt. levels are le...

testified in a Tues. hearing by the House Govt. Reform Committee’s Technology Subcommittee. A design architecture with technical and procedural transparency is needed to improve information sharing, Hughes said. DHS established the Information Sharing & Collaboration Program, which will work with the DoJ, FBI, Dept. of Defense, CIA and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) to bring together the Homeland Security Information Network, Law Enforcement On-Line and Regional Information Security System (RISS) networks, Hughes said. The FBI has been working closely with the TTIC to provide access to internal FBI databases through the Intelink-TS website, according to Willie Hulton, deputy asst. dir., FBI’s Counterterrorism Div. The FBI will produce the FBI Daily Report and FBI National Report to provide intelligence briefings to personnel in the field and external customers, Hulton said. Progress has been made on the state and local levels using the RISS network, which currently serves nearly 7,000 local, state, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies in all 50 states, D.C., U.S. territories, Australia, Canada and England, said RISS Chmn. Gerard Lynch. A public safety and criminal justice sharing system under the name SHIELD (Securing the Homeland by Integrating Existing Local Databases) shares data among 14 Dist. and federal public safety, criminal justice, and court agencies with agencies in N.Y.C., Pa., Mass. and Va. according to Suzanne Peck, Chief Technology Officer for the govt. of D.C.