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(U//FOUO) JESI: Don't Lose That Number!
FROM:
Chief, SID/Knowledge Enablement
Run Date: 08/25/2003
(U//FOUO) Last month, I had the opportunity to represent SID at
SERIES:
the annual Joint Executive for SIGINT Interoperability (JESI(U//FOUO) Second Party
pronounced "jessy") Conference, held in Canberra, Australia. What
SIGINT Cooperation
is JESI, and why should you care? First, the definition: JESI is a
"multi-national executive body responsible for ensuring continued
interaction and interoperability among the five SIGINT partners."
1. SIGINT Directors Set
Notice that it is an "executive body" - this means that it does not
Strategic Direction
have a dedicated staff. There are leads for various efforts, but
for 5-Eyes SIGINT
essentially JESI is you and I! Now to the second part: why should
Enterprise
you care? ...Because JESI is trying to make it easier for all of the
2. Communications
Second Parties to collaborate on producing SIGINT, and to
Security
exchange information in general.
Establishment (CSE)
- Our Good Neighbor
(U//FOUO) Although NSA has had bilateral relationships with
to the North
individual Second Party countries going back to the 1940's and
3. JESI: Don't Lose
1950's, we did not have any group (5-EYES) partnership until
That Number!
1993. JESI was formed in 1998 to bring structure to our
4. How SIGINT's Done
interactions and to provide a SIGINT operational focus to our
Down Under!
dealings. Since then, it has developed a structure enabling us to
5. SIGINT Directors to
systematically address different problems.
of ITIS and I
Collaborate Virtually
(for SID) serve as the senior NSA representatives to JESI; several
6. SID 's Antipodal
additional NSA representatives lead specific JESI functions.
Colleagues
7. TICKETWINDOW:
(S//SI) So what has JESI accomplished? Our efforts have really
Second Party
been picking up steam, especially in the last year:
Collection Sharing
8. The Kiwi Connection
InfoWorkSpace (IWS) was deployed as a collaboration tool
- Fellowship of the
that was used to exchange information among NSA, the
Ring?
U.S. military, and partner countries during Operation
Enduring Freedom.
MAINWAY, a system that uses phone call contact chaining
to identify targets of interest, was provided to each of our
partners. The partners now supply additional contact
information to the database to enhance our joint ability to
identify targets.
JESI has pushed the agencies to deploy an interoperable
public key security infrastructure (PKI) , to enable the
exchange of certificates among all partners. (Yes, you have
JESI to thank for the switch from ICARUS to PKI...)
NSA has been cooperating with CSE on a prototype of a
system to deliver SIGINT on Demand to customers. NSA is
forwarding SIGINT data to the CSE SLINGSHOT system,
which delivers end product to their customers. CSE has
established CATAPULT , into which they deliver 5-EYES end
product.
Several protected web sites have been established to allow
Second Party partners to share data securely within their
community of interest.
...not bad!
(C) The meeting in Canberra in July focused on our mission
objectives and how they relate to the recently published 5-EYES
SIGINT Partnership Business Vision . We addressed: 1) mission
collaboration and knowledge sharing; 2) enabling SIGINT
operations through information assurance; 3) exchange of finished
intelligence; and 4) maintaining business continuity.
(U//FOUO) I hope this gives you a sense of what JESI is all about.
With your participation, JESI will continue to make it easier for us
to collaborate with our Second Party partners to produce the best
possible SIGINT. For further information, see the JESI homepage .
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