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Joint Needs Statement

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks sufficient interoperable information sharing capabilities amongst operational components due to technological and procedural stovepipes. This lack of capability to provide transparent and continuous interagency awareness and interaction at the operational level often results in overlapping, conflicting, or misaligned single-agency policy and technical solutions that must be resolved at the tactical layer to achieve interoperability. DHS components address DHS strategic guidance in their individual process and deliver their singular intent to the mission without optimizing the activity with the rest of the DHS community. The Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) Information Sharing (IS) Joint Mission Need Statement (JMNS) was written as part of the sequence of documents mandated by the Joint Requirements Council (JRC) in the DHS Instruction Manual 107-001-001-01, DHS Manual for the Operation of the Joint Requirements Integration and Management System to achieve validated requirements. The HSE IS JMNS is a domain agnostic document to help mitigate the gaps that enable information stovepipes in the DHS operational community. …show more content…

In this role, I facilitated the collection of gaps and mission needs across CBP stakeholders to ensure inclusion. This action served as an enabling factor for CBP stakeholder engagement in a greater capacity to represent their equities and gain concurrence in the detailed process of articulating the DHS’s

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