Implementing the "One DHS Policy." The DHS Information Sharing Agreements Process and Tools

This article discusses how the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) mission to detect, interrupt, and prevent threats to homeland security is critical. As such, sharing intelligence information among DHS components is one of the department’s highest priorities. As stated by the DHS Secretary, It is important that a system be developed to identity DHS that is centered on the department’s mission and that is building a ‘one DHS’ culture among the different components. In a nutshell, the “One DHS” policy acknowledges that although the Department of Homeland Security is comprised of multiple components, it is nevertheless a single unified entity. Therefore, all relevant information generated and received by individual entities within DHS is to be accessible to and shared between and among all other DHS components. This policy replaces the former “need to know” criterion for information and intelligence sharing with the new “responsibility to share” model, in which no DHS component should consider another DHS component to be a separate agency for information sharing purposes.

• Record URL:
  http://uscg.mil/proceedings/archive/2010/Vol67_No2_Sum2010.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Moffatt, Irene Hoffman
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 14-15
• Serial:
  • Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea, Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council
  • Volume: 67
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: U.S. Coast Guard
  • Serial URL: http://www.uscg.mil/proceedings/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Data sharing; Information technology; Intelligence; Maritime safety; National security; Policy making
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Policy; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01167019
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 2010 8:22AM