This Larstan Business Report explores the impact new secure information sharing requirements are having on agencies with defense, intelligence and homeland security missions. It reports on how one company, IBM, is providing platforms for managing these new requirements.

The need to share information among different governmental agencies has risen dramatically due to the war to combat terrorism. Increased emphases on information-sharing among agencies tasked with protecting U.S. national interests at home and abroad have placed greater responsibilities for handling national security information on local and federal agencies that, in the past, have been outside the normal channels of classified information processing.