“The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, has submitted to the U.S. Congress the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Implementation Plan Report (186 pages, PDF). ISE is an approach that facilitates the sharing of terrorist-related information among local, state, federal, tribal, and private sector entities, as well as our foreign partners. The Implementation Plan Report includes a description of ISE functions, capabilities, resources, and conceptual design; a plan for the ISE’s design, testing, integration, deployment, and operation; and, a process for measuring progress made towards ISE implementation, as well as its performance once established.”