Cross organization intelligence analysis enabled using net-centric architectures

In today's global environment, effective collaboration across United States intelligence agencies is of dire importance. Efficient knowledge sharing can enable agencies to enhance their ability to detect, classify, and identify possible terrorist threats. Conventional collaborative technologies do not provide enough flexibility to achieve this ambitious goal. Intelligence analysts need the ability to quickly adapt to complex, changing situations in a dynamic environment in which shifts in the overall mission is the norm rather than the anomaly. By applying leading-edge technologies and architectural approaches, a network-centric architecture can be realized to increase information sharing and the collaborative capabilities of the intelligence community. The resulting network will continue to grow over time and provide a mechanism to share data and applications across traditional organizational boundaries. Intelligence analysts will now have access to a vast set of resources that was previously unattainable, providing a capability to preemptively identify suspicious plans and diffuse terrorist activities before they occur.