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user's role and the document level or type (such.as grand jury matemal). Legal restrichions on access and festrictions impos sed by policy will be no greater than necessary to pratect investigative integer wyand will be dev eloped with a sensitivity to the importance of full information in an analyst's efforts to “connect the dots." 13. What is the status of the FBI's elecironic connectivity te the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community? What information technology initiatives have been implemented te ensure more timely sharing of intelligence between the FBI and other entities of the U.S. Intelligence Community? The FBI is connected to the rest of the USIC at the Top Secret SCI level via the new SCI Operational Network (SCION) The SCION project was initiated in September, 2001, and has met all schedule, budget, and performance requirements. SCION connects to the USIC Untelink) via the Metropohtan Area Network and JWICS. SCION is the business tod! for (he FBI's OF, CT, and CY Divisions and has enabled SBINO CT and Cl personnel to perform their duties nore efficiently and effectively. Far example, the FB! uses SCION to contribute tc the President’s Terrorist Threat Reports and TRs. SCION 1s currently available to over 1006 users at FRIBO, and the FBI has initiated a pilot deployment project in the New York, Boston, and Kansas City held offices. As funding becomes available, SCION will be made available to all FBI field offices. Limited access to Intelink 1s avatlable im most field offices through the FBPs Intethgence Informanon System Network (ISNET), though this access is accomplished through older and often imadequate workstations located m small Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilites (SCIP) that are not accessible to all Special Agsnts or analysts. An impediment to field expansion of Intelink us the lack af SCIF space for FIG and ITTF personnel. Aocess to the intelligence andl homeland security cornmumities at the Secret level is provided via the Department of Defense SIPRNET, which provides the communications backbone to INTELINK-Secret. The FBI has estshlished-a small SIPRNET presence, but requirements for this access are increasitig dramatically, including the need for INTSLINK-Secret access at each JTTF, BIG, and Regional Countenntelligefice Working Group for each assigned Special Agent and analyst. The FRY's goal is to provide SIPRNETINTELINE Secret access throu sh secure dynamic virtual privaie networks to all FBI workstations in the flitare. The Anti- Drug Network ndes the SIPRNET communications s backbone amd provides huindls and. access as a vencle for the domestic exchange of intelhgence on antt- -drug efforts. MISC. REQ. #53 000004722