Publishes HSINAC Meeting Notice – 12-17-13

Yesterday the DHS Office of Operation Coordination and Planning published a meeting notice in the Federal Register (78 FR 70631-70632) for a teleconference to be held by the Homeland Security Information Network Advisory Committee (HSINAC) on December 17^th. The meeting will be open to the public either by telephone or via HSIN Connect, an online web-conferencing tool.

The agenda for the meeting includes:

HSIN Program Update, including:

• New hires;

• New development contract;

• New outreach contract, and

• Budget/Investment requirements.

HSIN Optimization and Development Vision, including:

• Improving system performance and service operations;

• Interoperability and Federation;

• Large list user validation;

• New development environment; and

• DHS suspicious activity reporting.

The Committee is expected to vote on:

• Stakeholder management strategy;

• Messaging/communications strategy; and

• HSIN mobile use/application policy.

Public participation is being solicited. A public comment period will be held at the end of the conference. Written comments on the topics outlined above may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # DHS-2013-0037) and should be submitted by December 13^th.