In a directive signed by Pentagon Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen, the Defense Department took its first stab this month at establishing policy to connect information systems across the defense and intelligence communities. The May 8 directive provides for "cross-domain solutions," which is the access or transfer of information between different security domains, also known as interoperability. The directive is "trying to tie together the intelligence piece, the defensive piece, the potentially offensive operational piece . . . and really...
