Kshemendra Paul

  • The Information Sharing Environment is supporting a set of technology priories to promote the safe disclosure of data. In the ISE's annual report to Congress, it highlights the steps agencies have taken over the past year to move toward a culture of responsible and secure information sharing.

    September 28, 2012
  • As the Program Manager, he has government-wide authority to plan, oversee the build-out, and manage use of the ISE

    September 20, 2012
  • In the post-9/11 age, information sharing - between federal agencies, and across multiple layers of government - became an even more vital endeavor. The Information Sharing Environment, headed by program manager, Kshemendra Paul, has helped to improve the coordination of information sharing. Under his watch, the National Information Exchange Model has worked to break down intelligence and information stovepipes. Agencies embraced the spirit of the idea, made progress toward the administration's stated goals and the results have been apparent. Federal News Radio examines the government's information sharing efforts as part of our special report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years.

    September 18, 2012
  • President Obama has codified several initiatives that were developed after classified data became public. The Information Sharing Environment\'s mission has been extended to help coordinate the development of standards to securely share classified information.

    October 13, 2011
  • Several agencies and other countries are using the The National Information Exchange Model framework to create common vocabularies for everything from orange juice production to cybersecurity and health care. Kshemendra Paul, the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, said the U.S., Mexico and Canada have signed an agreement to run pilots using standards based on NIEM for pandemic and public safety information sharing.

    September 21, 2011
  • The deputy administrator for E-Gov and IT in OMB will take on a deputy program manager role to help improve information sharing across law enforcement agencies.

    November 15, 2010
  • Changes are coming to the ISE, and Program Manager Kshemendra Paul will take suggestions anywhere he can get them.

    October 12, 2010
  • Changes in technology, culture and conditions necessitate not only an update, but growth for the three-year old office.

    August 12, 2010
  • The Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment says the three-year-old document needs to be updated and expanded. This effort is one of five priorities Kshmendra Paul shares in his exclusive interview with Federal News Radio, a month into his new role.

    August 11, 2010
  • Kshemendra Paul, the new Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment, must reestablish the role of the organization, experts say. James Carafano of Heritage says Paul must convince and educate the intelligence community about the value of the ISE. Jim Dempsey of the Markle Foundation Task Force says Paul must figure out the ISE\'s relationship with other information sharing organizations in the government.

    June 02, 2010
  • What do information sharing and lobbying have in common? Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller reports.

    June 01, 2010
  • Kshemendra Paul moves from the OMB chief architect to the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment. He will lead the work on information sharing standards, policies and procedures.

    May 28, 2010
  • OMB developing data standards to reduce strain on governmentwide systems

    April 15, 2009
  • White House officials say examples of open government will help alter perceptions

    March 23, 2009