To address today’s physical and cyber threat landscape, officials have stressed the importance of information sharing – not just among government agencies, but also extending to public/private partnerships. However, when organizations are on different networks, sharing information in real time can become a real challenge.
The Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and various National Guard, state police, first responders and partner-nation militaries “each developed its own unique network, which may or may not communicate well with the others,” said John Kahler, chief of the Joint On-demand Interoperability Network.
Now, however, that may be changing.
