Information Sharing Customer Outreach (ISCO)
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The Information Sharing Customer Outreach office or ISCO is a directorate within the office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).[1] ISCO is led by the Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence for Information Sharing and Customer Outreach, DNI,CIO, which is currently Mr. Richard Russell. ORG CHART
President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13328 in February 2004[2] which established a bi-partisan commission to advise him on ways to improve the intelligence capabilities of the United States. In June of 2005,[3] based on findings of the commission, the Director of National Intelligence was empowered to establish a Chief Information Officer. Another recommendation of the commission which was endorsed by the President put the operational control of the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) under the the Director of National Intelligence. ISCO was established at this time.
Mr. Russell has established strong ties from the ISCO to various counter-parts in government and industry. He has spoken at several information sharing conferences and was a presenter at an ODNI sponsored Information Sharing Symposium, 21-24 August 2006.Dare to Share Mr. Russell has championed the use of Intellipedia throughout the Intelligence Community. ISCO has a distributed network of Customer Advocates throughout the Intelligence Community who work to identify and remove barriers to information sharing across the enterprise. U.S. government stakeholders and their partners in industry have begun to collaborate on the business of Information Sharing.IIS Stake Holders and Partners
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[edit] Why it was created
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 mandated that policies be implemented to require the sharing of information across the Intelligence Community.
Vision: "A fully integrated DNI entity dedicated to improving information sharing throughout the National Intelligence Enterprise and beyond, to include those engaged in protecting and securing America, its assets, and its people." - DADNI for Information Sharing and Customer Outreach.
Mission: ISCO shall identify, develop, advocate and support improvements in the infromation sharing capabilities of Intelligence Community assets with the support of the PM ISE[4], DHS, DOJ, DoD, and other intelligence collectors, producers, and consumers, to assure all intelligence information is available to those who need it, when they need it.
[edit] Functions
Officers assigned to the ISCO serve as the primary Customer Advocates for the Intelligence Community. The officers comprise a distributed network of fellow Customer Advocates spread throughout the entire IC.
The ISCO spearheads the ODNI's mandate to improve information sharing across the IC and acts as a bridge between the ODNI and the approximately 100,000 men and women working in the 16 agencies of the IC. 1st Anniversary Speech ISCO promotes and enforces the National Information Exchange Model or NEIM which sets forth a defined data standard for information sharing.
[edit] Leadership -- Chief Information Officer -- Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose,Ret.[5]
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the position of the Associate Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer (ADNI CIO). The ADNI CIO is charged with directing and managing activities relating to information technology for the Intelligence Community and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ADNI CIO reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence and has four primary areas of responsibility:
Manage activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and enterprise architecture of the Intelligence Community;
Exercise procurement approval authority over all information technology items related to the enterprise architecture of all Intelligence Community components;
Direct and manage all information technology-related procurement for the Intelligence Community;
Ensure all expenditures for information technology and research and development activities are consistent with the Intelligence Community enterprise architecture and the strategy of the Director for such architecture.
[edit] Principal Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Chief Information Officer [7]
Ms. Michelle Weslander
Ms. Michele R. Weslander was appointed the first Principal Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 3 January 2006. Prior to her appointment to the Director of National Intelligence staff, Ms. Weslander served as the Deputy Technical Executive of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Her previous assignments at the NGA were as the Director of the Horizontal Integration Office, InnoVision Directorate; and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Officer for Multi-INT. She was appointed to the Senior Executive ranks in August 2002.[8]
[edit] Acronyms
ODNI - Office of the Director of National Intelligence
ADNI - Assistant Director of National Intelligence
DADNI - Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence
ISCO - Information Sharing Customer Outreach
ISE - Information Sharing Environment
PM ISE - Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment
ICES - Intelligence Community Enterprise Services
IIS - Institute for Information Sharing
NIEM - National Information Exchange Model
[edit] See Also
United States Director of National Intelligence
Program Manager Information Sharing Environment
National Information Exchange Model
[edit] External Links
Program Manager Information Sharing EnvironmentPM ISE
ISE Official Site [9]
Intellipedia
Institute for Information Sharing [10]
