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U. S. Department of Justice Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (LEISP) Spring 06 - Global Advisory Committee (GAC) Meeting Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer U. S. Department of Justice

The DOJ LEISP DOJ’s strategy to ensure law enforcement information collected by DOJ is shared comprehensively and routinely with other federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement partners: • Contributes to the fulfillment of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan • Contributes to the strengthening of the national Information Sharing Environment – PM ISE (per Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act and Presidential Directives) • Ensures DOJ IT investments incorporate law enforcement information sharing requirements • Incorporates input from law enforcement partners U. S. Department of Justice 3/17/2018 1

LEISP Key Elements Key elements of the DOJ LEISP strategy are to: • Ensure DOJ information sharing efforts support the needs of law enforcement nationwide • Protect the legal rights/civil liberties of all Americans • Leverage and coordinate with ongoing information sharing efforts • Promote the concept of “One. DOJ” U. S. Department of Justice 3/17/2018 2

Core LEISP Concept – One. DOJ • • • Establish DOJ-wide policy, operations, services, and technical standards Ensure consistency of DOJ information that meets the needs of law enforcement stakeholders Provide our partners with one entry point for DOJ law enforcement information ATF BOP DEA FBI OJP USMS Getting our own house in order… U. S. Department of Justice 3/17/2018 3

Two Complementary Tools R-DEx Approximately 100 connections Regional Sharing Systems, Managed Locally WA VA PA ARJIS LIn. X CA JNET Nor. West Structured & Unstructured Data Protected SSL Point to Point Connection, Web Services Standard Interface Regional Partitions Bedford County VA NY State Police Boston PD Miccosukee Tribal PD LEO Mid-West So-West Structured Data Only FL Dept. LE FUTURE 200, 000 possible users National Repository Entity Resolution & Correlation N-DEx GA State Police One. DOJ Structured & Unstructured Data ATF Phoenix PD Others Mid-Atl Federated Search Across Systems N-DEx Local Systems, Contribute at own pace R-DEx Fed DHS/USSS DOJ DEA DHS/CBP NCIS DOI One. DOJ Web Services Standard Interface USMS FBI BOP Partnering Strategy N-DEx – Federally funded, federally hosted & maintained Regional Systems – Grant funded, locally hosted and maintained, (CJIS). Multi-agency federal, state and local data available 3/17/2018 4 national standards; accessing DOJ data through R-DEx. U. S. Department of Justice to the authorized user.

National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) • A collaboration among federal, state & local government, industry, academia – DOJ, DHS, GLOBAL, IC, DOT, NIST, etc. • A federated architecture for data standards for information exchange – Framework for interconnecting independent communities of interest • Universal Core, Common Core, Domains – Addresses “Tower of Babel” problems for both within and between domains – Built upon widely-used GJXML • A foundation with three parts: – Core data components – Re-useable XML exchange packets – Business process models U. S. Department of Justice 3/17/2018 5