The authors of the January 2011 Department of Defense report Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood have found that Department of Defense information sharing systems and policies are not adequate to protect US forces from internal threats. Among other information sharing-related findings, the authors noted that, “There is no formal guidance standardizing how to share Force Protection threat information across the Services or the Combatant Commands.” (Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood, page 28.)
Since 2002, The Markle Task Force on National Security has advocated for increased information sharing between and among all government agencies that might possess critical counter-terrorism information. Learn more about Markle’s work on information sharing.
