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Web extra: Q&A with Marianne Bailey
The Cross Domain Management Office's director, explains plans for improving Defense and intelligency agency data-sharing
Cross-domain gateways play a central role in speeding information sharing while maintaining security barriers between various classifications and groups of intelligence users. Over the past five years, the Pentagon and the intelligence community (IC) have reduced the number approved of cross-domain entities from more than 800 to a baseline list of about two-dozen key solutions and a handful of exceptions.
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Marianne Bailey, director of the Unified Cross Domain Management Office (UCDMO), manages the interagency process for choosing which of the gateway entities qualify for the baseline list of approved cross-domain solutions. Those entities eventually will become the only information-sharing solutions that systems developers will routinely be allowed to use without applying for special permission to use alternate gateway entities.
In e-mail responses to questions from GCN, Bailey at times refers to the Enterprise, an inclusive term that refers to military services and agencies as well as their related vendors, coalition partners and similar stakeholders.
Notably, not all cross-domain solutions are actual programs or even physical entities. The procedures also include “air gap” or sneakernet methods of moving data by physically transferring various media.
GCN: How has your office been progressing in its work to consolidate information gateways?
Marianne Bailey: The UCDMO uses a tiered approach that provides near-, mid-, and long-term solutions.
The near-term solution includes the development and maintenance of the Cross Domain (CD) Baseline [list] and the recently published Community Cross Domain Roadmap Version 1.0.
This CD Baseline is a collection of [information gateway] devices that are available now and approved to operate on Defense Department and intelligence community networks, and IC's networks today.
Over the medium term the UCDMO plans to deploy these technologies with the help of three enterprise service providers:
- Defense Information Systems Agency Cross Domain Enterprise Services.
- Defense Intelligence Agency's Department of Defense Intelligence Information System's Cross Domain Management Office.
- Intelligence Community Enterprise Services.
DISA and DIA have already started deploying [the gateway] devices across the Enterprise and are currently servicing several customers.
Additionally, the UCDMO has recommended that all Defense Department and IC services and agencies establish internal Cross Domain Offices (CDOs).
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