Cebrowski Institute HFN Brown Bag
The Information Sharing Needs Analysis
Method: Lessons from a DHS pilot
Tuesday
10
October
Spanagel
101A
1200—1300
In counterterrorism and homeland security incidents,
gaps and bottlenecks in the flow of information can
lead to disastrous results. The challenge is to identify
these gaps across jurisdictions and disciplines like
intelligence, law enforcement, EMS, public health,
and transportation and fix them in advance of an
incident.
This presentation will cover lessons learned from the
Mind-Alliance Information Sharing Needs Analysis
(ISNA) Methodology pilot for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate.
ISNA is a structured methodology for analyzing and
enhancing the capability of groups of agencies to
effectively share information. ISNA aims to make
preparedness plans more viable by modeling desired
information flow, analyzing current status, identifying
gaps and crafting resilient cross-discipline notification
protocols.
David G. Kamien has 20 years of operational,
consulting and entrepreneurial experience in the fields
of homeland security and technology. He is the founder
of Mind-Alliance Systems <http://www.mindalliance.com/>, pioneering information sharing
technology and methodology and he is the editor of
The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook
<http://www.homelandsecuritybook.com>.
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