'Searching Intelink Is Like Shooting Craps'

By Dan Verton

September 9, 2002 12:00 PM ET

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Computerworld - The foundation of ICSIS is an intranet called Intelink, the first classified intelligence community intranet, which was set up in 1994.

"What we're really doing now is going beyond the wonderful baseline we have with Intelink," said Dolly Greenwood, director of architecture for ICSIS.

And while Intelink remains "the basis for how people share information" in the intelligence community, according to John Brantley, director of the Intelink Management Office, there are significant changes on the way for the intranet. One such change is the development of a structured database to help make sense of the 2.4 million Web pages that currently populate the top- secret version of Intelink.

"Searching Intelink is like shooting craps," said Stephen Selwyn, director of knowledge management at the Office of the Intelligence Community CIO. However, Selwyn's office plans to deploy by November what he calls a browser-based "intelligence community collaborative presence," letting intelligence analysts enter collaborative communities of interest from their desktops without needing other infrastructure.

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