6: Implementation Plan

Documents/NSISS/6: Implementation Plan

Develop an integrated implementation plan to provide a coordinated and sustainable approach to accomplish the goals and realize the vision of this Strategy.

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Way Forward -- As stated in the National Security Strategy, "collaboration across the government—and with our partners at the state, local, and tribal levels of government, in industry, and abroad—must guide our actions." This Strategy serves as a guide for balancing collective efforts to promote responsible sharing and safeguarding in support of national security and to enhance the safety of the American people. Together, we can reach beyond legacy information sharing protocols and embed in our missions and cultures the assurance decisions are better informed when supported by all relevant information. This also requires, however, a balanced commitment to appropriately safeguard information, its sources, and collection methods, while also respecting legal and policy restrictions on use. Success depends upon the collective ability to achieve equilibrium between sharing and safeguarding, build on past successes, and continue the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment. An integrated implementation plan will be developed to provide a coordinated and sustainable approach to accomplish the goals and realize the vision of this Strategy. This plan will focus on achieving priority objectives, sequence stakeholder actions across a five-year horizon, include performance measures and milestones, and designate lead departments and agencies. The implementation plan will integrate annual programmatic and implementation guidance and synchronize with the Federal budget cycle to allow adjustments to actions and deliverables based on annual performance assessments, changing priorities, and resource allocations. Implementation planning will involve all departments and agencies that support national security and safety, led by the White House, leveraging the strategic resourcing processes of the Office of Management and Budget, and managed by departments, agencies, and executive agents, as appropriate, based on mission relevance and existing authorities. The following objectives capture the highest five priorities of the Administration in achieving the information sharing and safeguarding goals of this Strategy. The remaining objectives represent additional priority activities for departments, agencies, and other stakeholders to advance the goals of this Strategy.

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