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Intelligence community to reboot security
Reforms are part of federal overhaul; certification of systems is one focus
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We’re going to have a good old-fashioned tent meeting.”
— Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose
— Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose
This month, personnel will begin receiving invitations to participate in one of two teams—a green team and a gold team—that will ultimately make suggestions on how to improve certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
“We’re going to have a good old-fashioned tent meeting,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose, associate director of national intelligence and CIO of the intelligence community. He described the program at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems Worldwide Conference, held recently in Dallas. “We’re hoping that through this bit of ingenuity, we can tap the best minds from across the business. We need to have this kind of effort to make intelligence better.”
Meyerrose said he is working with John Grimes, Defense CIO, on the initiative and that the outcome will help the intelligence agencies and components within the services reduce the time needed to certify and accredit standards and systems. He said the teams also would help the intelligence community become more inclusive.
“We need less local policies and more communitywide policies,” Meyerrose said. “We need less local standards and more communitywide standards.”
Grimes agreed, stressing that to harmonize the certification and accreditation processes across DOD and the intelligence community, you must begin with an enterprisewide approach.
“We believe the best way to provide net-centric enterprise capabilities is through net-centric enterprise processes,” Grimes said. “As we implement enterprise architecture, portfolio management, enterprise systems engineering, and enterprise operations and management, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need a complementary net-centric, enterprise-oriented information assurance certification and accreditation process.”
Speed, agility
Meyerrose said the reforms are part of the federal overhaul of the intelligence community and are consistent with the National Intelligence Strategy of the United States, released in October by John Negroponte, director of the Office of National Intelligence.
“We have to make intelligence fast, agile and transparent,” Meyerrose added. “It doesn’t do us any good to deliver the right information to the right place, but not in the nick of time. But it’s not just about the speed of delivery of intelligence, it’s the speed in which we bring innovation.”
Throughout the DODIIS conference, intelligence officials discussed how DOD is restructuring agencies for efficiencies. Part of this restructuring occurred April 3, when Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on establishing a Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center. DOD established the center, managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, to integrate and synchronize full-spectrum intelligence operations on behalf of the combatant commands.
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