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		Lawmaker to DHS: Step It Up With Fusion Centers, Ben Bain March 20, 2008
	The Homeland Security Department is at risk for losing support for funding because it is not doing a good enough job of sharing information with state, local and federal homeland security officials, the chairwoman of the House subcommittee that oversees information sharing and intelligence gathering said March 18.
		New PMAF Capabilities Release, Russ Goodrich January 10, 2008
	PMAF is a customizable framework for writing, retrieving and assessing information pedigree and other metadata that determines the quality of information. PMAF works in concert with both new and existing applications to generate and store the history of information objects, and to query that pedigree metadata to evaluate the level of trust that can be placed in the information.

		DOD Issues Information -Sharing Strategy, Jason Miller January 4, 2008
	The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued three new metadata standards to improve and simplify the marking and handling of information.

		PMAF Published Journal Article, M. Gioioso*, S. McCullough, J. Cormier, C. Marceau, R. Joyce May 2007
	Information pedigree, or provenance, is needed to establish trust in information, ensure accountability, discover sources of errors, and correct propagated errors.

		DOD CIO and DN Establish New Office to Enhance Information Sharing March 8, 2007
	The charter establishes a Unified Cross Domain Management Office to support DoD and the IC and puts in place agreed upon responsibilities, functions and operations for the new organization.