mr. polis governmentwide authority to plan, oversee the build up and managed use of information sharing environment. he also co-chairs the white house information sharing and access inner agency policy committee. picture now recognizes mr. paul for his testimony. >> chairman mccaul, ranking member keating, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. my name is kshemendra paul. i am the program manager for the information sharing environment. by training and profession i am an information technologist. formally i was the chief architect of the federal government. my office works with mission partners, federal, state, local, tribal, private sector and internationally. together, our focus is on improvement of the management, discovery, fusing, sharing delivery of and collaboration around terrorism related for me. the role of my office is planning oversight and management. we span a variety of communiti communities. law enforcement, homeland security, defense, foreign affairs and intelligence. as my office and our partners continue to implement responsible inform