Open Source Homeland

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In 1992, Mr. Grever was promoted to the Engineering Section within the Information Resources Division at FBI Headquarters, where he supported FBI field operations that employed highly specialized technical methods and techniques. Later that year, he was assigned to the newly formed Tactical Operations Unit and was responsible for developing and delivering unique technical capabilities in support of high priority criminal, counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations.

That’s a lotta email:

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Release
“These alerts put our breaking news and public safety information at the fingertips of those who want it and need it, everyone from concerned citizens and the news media to our government and private sector partners,” said John Miller, Assistant Director of the FBI Office of Public Affairs. “It’s a fast, convenient, and effective way to keep people informed, especially in the event of a crisis.”

FBI — Zal Azmi - Press Room - Headline Archives 09-24-08

• Virtual Case File (VCF)
• SIPRNet
• Trilogy program
• Sentinel

Here’s the FBI’s answer to slow, siloed, and dumb offices:

FBI — ORION - Press Room - Headline Archives 09-22-08
Now we have such a tool, a next-generation system built from the ground up by our investigators and technology experts. We call it ORION—the Operational Response and Investigative Online Network.

ORION gives the FBI and its partners a real-time, online network to quickly and effectively coordinate efforts in crisis situations, no matter how many law enforcement personnel are involved…where they might be located…or how big the case.

So if an investigation expands from New York to Chicago to Miami, agents in every city could log into ORION and have instant access to every scrap of information on the case, says Supervisory Special Agent Mike McCoy, an investigator on the sniper case who helped design the system.