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Intelink. The Intelligence Community’s Classified Internet. Randy C. Marks Senior Technical Advisor Intelink Service Management Center. The Internet was the model.
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Intelink The Intelligence Community’s Classified Internet Randy C. Marks Senior Technical Advisor Intelink Service Management Center
The Internet was the model • From the start, the Internet (specifically the world wide web) has been the model for Intelink architecture and technological innovations. • We’ve followed your evolution • Digital Government is the ultimate goal
Evolution 1994 ---------- Websites 1996 ---------- Intranets 1998 ---------- Extranets
We are we today? • Span multiple security domains • Discovered over 250 different producers of Intelligence • 60,000+ users at the Top Secret level. Potential growth to over 250,000 users at the Secret level • Millions of documents and hundreds of databases accessible online
Our Problems • No centralized client authentication • No guaranteed crisis information availability • Network outages, servers down • Information timeliness concerns; days to index • Intelligence scattered • Information management still deficient • No good process for determining usability of product
“The Perimeter” ic.gov “System Backup” “Site Hosting Area” “The Staging Area” “The Walkers” Gigabit back plane Authentication Full Service Directory CA User Profiles Logs “COIs” Mail Servers Databases “The Way In” “The Backbone Network” ICEHoUSE – A possible new look for the future of Intelink
We’re Looking for New Ideas • Phrase Enhanced Search (PES) - Extracted high quality phrase information from files using University of Arizona Noun Phrase Extraction software • High quality phrases are placed in a searchable database. • User searches using simple concepts - “aircraft”, “tank”, “cargo”. • Phrases are returned that match these simple concepts. • User can then select from these returns phrases that match the information they are looking for. • These selected phrases are passed to a full featured search engine such as AltaVista for actual returns.
Where to go from here? • We need to continue to evolve • We need new ideas on information discovery and management • We’ll never catch the Internet wave but we hope to always follow it
To get a copy of this brief If you would like a copy of this brief, send an email to: GetBrief@intelink.gov Please make the subject of the email: Digital Government And a copy will automatically be sent to you at the reply to address of your email. The brief is approximately 1.8M, so be advised.
Questions? Randy C. Marks Intelink Service Management Center 301-688-1800 drsurf@intelink.gov
Tonka Score Wer’zit Rebuilt Automatic Metadata Discovery Web walkers Alta Vista, Webinator, etc.