Inter-Agency "Silo Breaker" Data Bridge

Principal workflows

• Agree: Each data-sharing relationship starts from the agreement behind it. The agreement's parties, purpose, permitted fields, legal authority and term are recorded and turned into a sharing policy that both sides approve.
• Connect: The providing agency connects the Bridge to its system through a narrow adapter that answers only the queries the policy allows. No database credentials or bulk copies pass to the requesting agency.
• Query: The requesting agency's system or user sends a query with a stated purpose. The Bridge checks it against the policy, passes it to the provider, and returns only the permitted answer, which may be a match result or specific fields.
• Oversee: Privacy officers, data stewards and auditors see every exchange under each agreement, review anomalies and prepare the reporting that agreements and oversight bodies ask for.

Who uses it

• Program offices that need to verify information held by another agency
• Data stewards and system owners at providing agencies
• Senior agency officials for privacy and privacy offices
• Chief data officers and interagency agreement managers
• Inspectors general and auditors reviewing data sharing

Reporting

• Queries by agreement, purpose, requester and outcome
• Fields released under each agreement
• Refused queries and the rules that refused them
• Anomalies flagged and how each was resolved
• Agreements approaching expiry or renewal
• Policy change history for privacy offices and auditors

Features

• Agreement-driven policies: Each sharing policy is built from a recorded interagency agreement, including its purpose, authority, permitted fields and term, and stops working when the agreement expires.
• Field-level release: Responses contain only the fields the policy allows; other fields in the source record never leave the providing agency.
• Match-only answers: Where a yes-or-no answer is enough, the Bridge returns only whether a matching record exists, without returning the record.
• Data stays at the source: Queries are answered from the providing agency's system at the time they are asked, so no bulk copy is made or kept by the requester.
• Purpose on every query: Every query carries a stated purpose and case reference, which are checked against the agreement and kept in the log.
• Volume and rate limits: Limits on the number of queries per requester and period, as the agreement sets, to prevent use of the Bridge as a bulk extract.
• Complete query log: Who asked, for what purpose, under which agreement, which fields were returned and when, for every query, and it cannot be edited.
• Anomaly review: Queries outside normal patterns, such as unusual volumes, hours or repeated refusals, flagged for the privacy office or data steward to review.
• Policy approval workflow: New policies and changes need approval from the providing agency's data steward and the privacy offices named in the agreement.
• Agreement register: All agreements with their parties, authority, term, renewal dates and the policies built from them, in one register.
• Standard APIs: Requesting systems connect through documented REST APIs, and people without a system integration can use a web form under the same policy.
• Oversight reporting: Activity, refusals and anomalies by agreement, ready for privacy offices, data integrity boards where matching programs apply, and inspectors general.

Integrations

• Providing agency systems: A narrow adapter in the providing agency's environment answers permitted queries from its database or API, mapped during implementation.
• Requesting agency systems: Case management and eligibility systems send queries through documented REST APIs, each registered with its own credentials.
• Single sign-on: People sign in through their own agency's identity provider, including PIV card sign-in, so each agency's credentials and policies apply.
• Security information and event management: Query and policy logs are streamed to each agency's SIEM, limited to that agency's own activity.
• Records management: Logs and agreement records are retained and disposed of under the retention schedules you set, and can be transferred to your records system.
• Work API: Agreement, policy and activity data available to each agency's reporting tools through the Moraph Work API.

Deployment

• Moraph cloud, United States: Hosted in the United States region, with adapters installed in each providing agency's environment.
• Agency-hosted: Installed in an agency's own environment where its policy requires, operated under its authorization.
• Dedicated environment: A single-tenant environment for agencies that require isolation, scoped in the proposal.
• With a managed service: Optionally run alongside a Moraph managed service for policy upkeep, adapter maintenance and administration.

Security and privacy

• Records kept in the United States: The Bridge and its logs are hosted in Moraph's United States region, or in your own environment.
• Cleared support lane: Support tickets from federal clients are routed only to US citizens with active security clearances.
• Single sign-on and role-based access: Each agency's people sign in through its own identity provider, and roles decide who can query, approve policies and see logs.
• Encryption under controlled keys: Data in transit and logs at rest are encrypted, with keys Moraph staff cannot use without explicit, time-bound authorization.
• Complete audit trail: Every query, response, refusal, policy change and approval recorded with the person, system and time, and cannot be edited.
• Independent audits: Moraph's controls are covered by its SOC 2 Type II report and ISO/IEC 27001 certification, available through the Trust Center.

Limitations

• It does not decide whether sharing is lawful. The legal authority, agreements, system of records notices and privacy impact assessments are your agencies' responsibility; the Bridge enforces the policies you approve.
• Computer matching programs still need their matching agreements, data integrity board approvals and notices. The Bridge supports them but does not replace those steps.
• Answers are only as accurate as the providing agency's records. The Bridge does not correct or reconcile source data.
• It is not a data warehouse or analytics platform. It answers specific queries and does not build combined datasets across agencies.
• Each providing agency must install and maintain an adapter, which needs its system owner's approval and technical support.
• Statute-specific restrictions, such as those on federal tax information, can be reflected in policies, but determining what they permit is your agencies' decision.
• Moraph holds no FedRAMP authorization for the Bridge. We provide control documentation to support each agency's own authorization.
• Responses depend on the availability of the providing agency's system; if it is unavailable, queries are refused rather than answered from a copy.

Next steps

Book a demonstration or a technical briefing at www.moraph.com/solutions/inter-agency-silo-breaker-data-bridge. Purchasing routes and company information: www.moraph.com/how-to-buy.