Our success in preventing future terrorist attacks depends on our ability to gather, analyze, and share information and intelligence regarding those who want to attack us, the tactics that they use, and the targets that they intend to attack. The intelligence and information sharing structures that once enabled the winning of the Cold War now require greater flexibility and resilience to confront the threats facing our Nation from a transnational terrorist movement determined to destroy our people, our freedoms, and our way of life.

Created by Congress and the President, the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) supports five communities -

- by leveraging existing capabilities and aligning policies, standards and systems to ensure those responsible for combating terrorism have access to timely and accurate information. An improved Information Sharing Environment is being constructed on a foundation of trusted partnerships among Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, the private sector, and our foreign allies - partnerships based on a shared commitment to detect, prevent, disrupt, preempt, and mitigate the effects of terrorism against the United States.

For more on the mission and organization of the ISE, visit About the ISE. To learn how the ISE is helping the Federal, State, local, and tribal governments safeguard information privacy rights and other legal rights of Americans, visit ISE Privacy Protections. To access Congressional, Presidential, and ISE documents related to information sharing, visit the Documents page. For the latest articles on our partner's information sharing efforts, visit In The News.