A story in the National Journal details a secret program through which the Department of Defense and some of its largest contractors have been sharing data on network scans, attacks and vulnerabilities for more than a year. The new intelligence partnership, which has not been previously reported, is known as the Defense Industrial Base initiative, or the DIB The department formally launched the program in September 2007, but it took a year to work out a legal arrangement by which the contractors and the government could confidentially share information.
Source: https://threatpost.com/defense-industrial-base-information-sharing-program-good-start-050409/72776/