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DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture

Part 3 of 4 Target Architecture

October 2010

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is responsible for instituting a mature and fully detailed Enterprise Architecture. In support of DHS OCIO’s mission, as of July 2010, the activities previously performed by the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) CIO Division (CIO-D) for the DHS Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture are being performed within the DHS OCIO under the direction of the Office of Applied Technology (OAT)/, HSIN Program Office, Portal Consolidation Chief Architect.

This document is Part 3 of four documents outlining the DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture. The document sequence consists of:

Part 1 - DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture As-Is State

Part 2 - DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture Information Analysis and Business Requirements

Part 3 - DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture Target Architecture

Part 4 - DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture Transition Plan

These document packages evolve over time and together represent a complete process.

In January 2006, DHS Secretary Chertoff issued a memorandum to DHS designating Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) as the Department’s official system for operational SBU information sharing and collaboration within DHS and with DHS partners. The Secretary stated that it was essential that senior management within DHS support the ongoing growth and utilization of HSIN because it was vital to the Department’s future successes. Consequently, HSIN became the Department’s primary portal for sharing SBU information, and enabling coordination and collaboration among all of the Department’s internal operational elements and external Mission Partners.

In January 2010, the DHS Chief Information Officer (CIO) designated the DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture as a High-Priority Initiative (HPI). The purpose of this Segment Architecture is to accelerate and improve decision making within DHS. The DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture will realize cost savings, increase effectiveness and efficiency, and enable greater information sharing and collaboration among DHS Components and external partners by facilitating uniform access through one primary nationwide secure gateway and selected trusted platforms. Potential opportunities exist within Component Portals to promote federated search capabilities, share costs, and enhance collaboration. The external SBU portals will include key partners such as the Department of Justice (DOJ) Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISSNET), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Law Enforcement Online (LEO), and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Intelink-U.

The DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture effort leverages the HSIN as the designated SBU information-sharing portal for DHS. HSIN will serve as the principal platform for consolidation and/or interoperability. The activities for this effort exclude artifacts related to system and application design, and focuses instead on identifying opportunities within DHS

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Components for SBU Portal interoperability or consolidation. The key deliverables of the effort are:

Documenting the As-Is DHS SBU Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Portal environment, Analyzing and documenting existing URLs that are potential DHS SBU Portal candidates, Developing the Target Architecture for consolidation or interoperability of candidate portals, and

Creating a DHS SBU Portal multi-year Transition Plan to feed into the HSIN Business Case and budget cycle.

The Executive Sponsor for the DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture is the

DHS CIO.

Strategic Alignment

DHS’s Strategic Goals are achieved by developing DHS-wide functional capabilities such as screening, securing, and domain awareness, as well as DHS enterprise-wide services such as information sharing, intelligence, IT and integrated operations. These DHS capability and service areas are defined in the DHS Enterprise Architecture (EA).1 The DHS EA organizes the Department’s mission space around the following six “Functional Areas”:

1. Screening,

2. Securing,

3. Law Enforcement,

4. Domain Awareness,

5. Incident Management, and

6. Benefits Administration.

Each of the Functional Areas is designed to encompass the mission spaces of multiple Components, thereby helping to illuminate areas where cross-Component coordination and integration could be beneficial to the Department’s mission. 2 As the primary DHS information sharing SBU portal, HSIN innately spans across the enterprise business, mission and IT services.

The DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture broadens the scope of information sharing and enterprise-wise services to cross-Component functional areas and capabilities, integrating and bringing greater value to the DHS organizations and missions. This segment architecture directly impacts the enterprise through consolidation and interoperability of the

1 (DHS Integrated Planning Guidance, 2011-2015) 2 (DHS Integrated Planning Guidance, 2011-2015)

October 06, 2010 4 Target Architecture candidate DHS Component SBU portals with HSIN and further develops the following DHS enterprise-wide services:

Enterprise Business Services, Enterprise Mission Services, Enterprise IT Services, and Information Sharing.

With consolidation, the consolidated DHS portals would automatically inherit HSIN’s strategic alignment to the DHS mission3. Through interoperability, strategic alignment would be shared with HSIN. The HSIN Program aligns to the overarching DHS Strategic Goals as described in the DHS Strategic Plan as follows in Figure 1: HSIN Alignment to DHS Strategic Plan.

Figure 1: HSIN Alignment to DHS Strategic Plan4

As DHS matures and refines its strategic direction, the HSIN Program will continue to align with the Department’s most current and comprehensive assessments. In that regard, HSIN inherits strategic alignment to the mission and goals that have been set forth by the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) Report.5

3 (DHS Integrated Planning Guidance, 2011-2015) 4 Mission Needs Statement (MNS) for Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Next Generation (NextGen), Version 1.0, 2008 5 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report (QHSR): A Strategic Framework for a Secure Homeland, 2010

Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Goals

Provide timely and accurate information relating to preventing and detecting nuclear, radiological biological and other terrorist attacks.

Provide timely and accurate information regarding vulnerabilities and threats; manage incidents to mitigate risks and reduce post incident loss of life and property.

Provide a well-managed and coordinated information sharing platform to connect disparate information users in a dynamic information exchange environment.

Goal 5: Strengthen and unify DHS operations and management.

Goal 4: Build a nimble, effective emergency response system and a culture of preparedness.

Goal 3: Protect critical infrastructure.

Goal 2: Continue to protect our nation from dangerous goods.

DHS Strategic Goals

Goal 1: Continue to protect our nation from dangerous people

Provide real time collaboration and incident management through a common operating picture.

Support an EM COI for information exchange and collaboration.

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In its current state, the DHS SBU Portal environment exists as a collection of independent entities within the DHS Components and at the Department level serving Component-specific mission and business functions.

The objective for the Conceptual Target Architecture is to transform the DHS SBU Portal environment from a collection of disparate, Component-specific services and databases into an interoperable, collaborative enterprise information sharing environment focused on the overall DHS mission as depicted in Figure 2: DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture As-Is/To-Be State.

Figure 2: DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture As-Is/To-Be State

As the DHS designated SBU Information Sharing Portal, HSIN fosters a culture of information sharing and collaboration across DHS and its partners; enables real-time sharing of threat information for tactical First Responder support; promotes federated services; and supports decision-making in a real-time, secure environment. The DHS SBU Portal Interoperability Segment Architecture effort highlights the opportunities for a single, integrated Component SBU Portal environment within HSIN.

The Conceptual Target Business Architecture identifies the common business purpose and value that drives the need for common business services serving the DHS mission. The overall business objective is to enhance the DHS mission by providing an enterprise solution that

October 06, 2010 6 Target Architecture facilitates the collaboration and exchange of homeland security information. This can be achieved through the consolidation and interoperability of DHS SBU Portals with HSIN.

The Department had mission and business needs that required a solution to:

Connect disparate information users in a dynamic and diverse information exchange and sharing environment;

Support information sharing not only in an office setting, but in command center environments and tactical field environments (aloft, ashore, and afloat);

Provide timely and accurate access to all relevant information in a manner that assures adequate safeguarding and protection of the information;

Provide timely and accurate information regarding vulnerabilities and threats and related to detecting, preventing, responding, and recovering to terrorism or other natural or manmade hazards;

Enable information exchange and collaboration for efficient and coordinated information sharing in support of response and recovery operations; and

Provide a common operating picture (COP) for incident management to mitigate risks and reduce post incident loss of life and property.

Common knowledge management and information sharing governance structures are required for the Department to effectively manage content across the enterprise. The HSIN Program must build and support a trusted operating environment based on a universal vetting process for users, along with data management and business process protocols to ensure the quality and mission relevance of shared information. Governance is essential to ensure that all information is handled following prearranged business practices, and that non-compliance is promptly mitigated and resolved.6 The technical solution implementation and governance will be supported by the HSIN Program Manager (PM), along with the Department and user-community level governance bodies made up of members from participating agencies working in compliance with policies established by the DHS Information Sharing Governance Board (ISGB).7 The ISGB determines the prioritization and approval of the content, design, and functionality of HSIN, while ensuring the portal is tied to business goals, objectives, and end user needs.

HSIN was developed to address the Department’s business need for a national, secure, and trusted tool for SBU information sharing and collaboration between Mission Partners8 to support prevention and protection, response and recovery from all threats, hazards, and incidents within the authority of the DHS. In February 2004, DHS Secretary Ridge announced the expansion of HSIN as the DHS’s “primary communications, collaboration, situational awareness, and information-sharing system”. Accordingly, HSIN is the Department’s primary portal for sharing SBU information and enabling coordination and collaboration among all of the Department’s internal operational elements and external Mission Partners.

6 Mission Needs Statement (MNS) for Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Next Generation (NextGen), 2008 7 Mission Needs Statement (MNS) for Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) Next Generation (NextGen), 2008 8 DHS Integrated Planning Guidance, 2011-2015

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DHS SBU Portal Target Services Architecture Web Portal Services

Enterprise Collaboration Services Content Management (CM) Services Document Management Services Business Intelligence Services Report Generation and Administration Services

Email Services Federated Search Services Application Security Services Infrastructure Security Mechanisms

Table 1: DHS SBU Portal Target Services Architecture

Figure 3: HSIN and COP Conceptual Target Technology Architecture

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HSIN, as the target consolidated information sharing environment for DHS SBU portals, will serve as the primary gateway for DHS personnel, stakeholders and citizens to share information.

Consolidation may be performed at different layers consisting of integrated legacy and competing technologies.