Information Sharing: The new intelligence capability

Steve Coles, Head of Security Strategy at SELEX SI/VEGA, revisits the importance of information sharing for the UK in light of the failed Christmas Day airline bomb plot.

According to President Obama, it was an information sharing and analysis breakdown that nearly allowed a terrorist to kill 290 people on 25 December 2009, in what would have been the largest loss of life on an American airline since 9/11.
In his speech on 5 January, the President said: “The US government…
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