Homeland Defense and IT?

Can information technology help solve many of the homeland defense issues? One of the main complaints about the events of 9/11 was a supposed failure of intelligence’s ability to share information between disimiliar government and private organizations. Meanwhile one of the biggest stumbling blocks in IT is a lack of focus on information management. IT professionals seem to focus on hardware architectures and hardware problems predominantly. We need to shift our focus even in business to information management and the processes of manufacturing information.

Utilizing current management concepts and existing technologies, how can IT be leveraged to improve information sharing?