Operating under the guidance and support of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Global Advisory Committee (GAC) serves as a Federal Advisory Committee to the U.S. Attorney General on justice-related information sharing and integration initiatives. Global was created to support the broad scale exchange of pertinent justice and public safety information. It promotes standards-based electronic information exchange to provide the justice community with timely, accurate, complete, and accessible information in a secure and trusted environment.