"We are working very hard on a top-secret cloud initiative," Shearer told the event, adding that it will interoperate with similar infrastructure already operated by the US and UK, and mean sensitive data can be shared "near instantaneously." "What that will do is obviously transform how we do our work as agencies but also it'll open up a shared collaborative space that will really, I think, reinforce this sense of working together as a genuine community and bringing all those different capabilities to bear on problems. "The ability to share vast amounts of data and to work on it together will be a massive change for us as a community."
Shearer suggested that each of the three nations has different procurement rules, but they are aware that agreeing on some hardware and software standards "will let us move forward together as opposed to diverging." He opined that all Five Eyes partners - the intelligence-sharing alliance of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - "really need to focus on" shared standards. AI is another field in which Shearer anticipates collaboration among the Five Eyes nations. "We can do so much better on if we do it in a shared way," he argued. "There are these opportunities for us to really deepen our existing cooperation. It's more than an opportunity, though. I say it's actually an imperative, given what we're up against."
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