DocumentCode :
3411981
Title :
Automated Military-Civilian Information Sharing
Author :
Dourandish, Robert ; Zumel, Nina ; Manno, Michael
Author_Institution :
Quimba Software, San Mateo, CA
fYear :
2006
fDate :
23-25 Oct. 2006
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
Homeland security operations would greatly benefit from bi-directional information sharing between military and civilian systems. Military-civilian information sharing, however, presents a myriad of unique technical and nontechnical challenges. Technical challenges include interoperability issues among disparate, stove-piped systems; heterogeneity of data formats; security (particularly in cross-domain sense); entitlement to data; and lack of a uniform lexicon. Non-technical challenges include the disparate operating protocols and communication styles of different communities of practice; legal, privacy, and regulatory issues surrounding the sharing of various types of data; ambiguity in authority and jurisdictional relationships amongst the different organizations in an information-sharing network; and lack of a common framework for command and control. These difficulties can be exacerbated in ad-hoc coalitions, for instance large-scale disaster response. We describe our ongoing effort to create a field-deployable platform to enable bi-directional automated information sharing among military and civilian systems. This platform uses ontologies designed by multiple subject matter experts to drive a peer-to-peer information exchange network in the syndromic bio-surveillance domain. In addition to technical issues, our research also addresses secure data sharing in the context of compliance and privacy regulations, particularly context-dependent entitlement. In addition to our findings, we will also discuss gaps that were identified as the result of this research and our vision of areas for future research
Keywords :
military communication; military computing; surveillance; bidirectional automated information sharing; biosurveillance domain; military-civilian system; ontologies; peer-peer information exchange network; Bidirectional control; Communication system security; Data privacy; Data security; Information security; Law; Legal factors; National security; Protocols; Terrorism; Automatic Systems; Homeland Security; Military Civilian Information Sharing; Ontology; Syndromic Bio Surveillance;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0617-X
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0618-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302367
Filename :
4086894
Link To Document :
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