Government agencies and their partners across the globe face a common challenge today and far into the future: how to exchange services and information more rapidly, securely, and effectively within and across organizational boundaries - and even across industry boundaries - worldwide. Information Exchange is now at the heart of transformational improvements in high consequence environments - where lives, fortunes, and freedom itself are at stake: Health Information Exchange (HIE) is transforming high consequence environments in the HealthCare industry, Net-Centric Information Exchange is transforming high consequence environments in Defense, etc.

While SOA and Cloud Computing provide a framework for sharing services and information, they must work closely in concert with other enabling technologies to enable Next Generation Information Exchange in High
Consequence Environments.