Overview[]
The mission of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Intelligence Working Group (GIWC) was to develop, build, and support the creation of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan, which will provide law enforcement agencies with the ability to gather, analyze, protect, and share credible and timely information and intelligence to identify, investigate, prevent, deter, and defeat criminal and terrorist activities, both domestically and internationally, as well as protect homeland security.
The GIWG has focused their efforts on developing an intelligence gathering and sharing plan that emphasizes better methods for sharing among all agencies and describes a method for passing and receiving critical data among those agencies. Key to this process is the efficient leveraging of existing efforts — the commitment to build on, not reinvent, substantial information sharing activities already under way.