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<br />Preparedness Grants Manual
<br />ICE, United States Secret Service (USSS), CISA, the United States Coast Guard (USCG), and
<br />FEMA.
<br />.Analytic Capability: Fusion centers must maintain strong analytic capabilities at tactical,
<br />operational, and strategic levels to address a wide array of threats or hazards that could have
<br />implications for homeland security or national security. These capabilities directly support
<br />operational, investigative, and information sharing efforts across all levels of government. These
<br />capabilities include, but are not limited to:
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<br />Building and sustaining a capable workforce of analysts who have the necessary experience
<br />and training; access to open source, unclassified and classified information, products, data,
<br />SAR; tips/leads and online/social media-based threats; as well as necessary services and
<br />technology to facilitate analytic capabilities and collaboration;
<br />Assessing, evaluating, and deconflicting acts of targeted violence, threats to life, and other
<br />criminal or suspicious activity, to include potential indicators and behaviors, for potential
<br />connection to or implications for international or domestic terrorism, or other threats within
<br />the DHS mission space;
<br />Providing analytic support and responses to requests for information from federal, state, and
<br />local partners during no notice threats, attacks, or incidents, as well as other planned events
<br />such as National Security Special Events (NSSEs);
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<br />Conducting threat assessments within their respective jurisdictions, including the
<br />identification of threats, intelligence gaps, and mitigation efforts;
<br />Establishing, formalizing, and maintaining bi-directional information sharing with federal and
<br />other state agencies in accordance with jurisdictional authorities;
<br />Leveraging available resources and capabilities to conduct target and event deconfliction in
<br />support of threat identification, officer safety, and information sharing.
<br />Maintaining an ability to routinely support federal government efforts to watchlist terrorists
<br />and transnational organized crime actors; and
<br />Appropriately planning for, and assessing/forecasting, prioritizing, and executing against
<br />both known and emerging threat vectors, and ensuring the safety and security of all
<br />operations, while protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
<br />Fusion centers should also consider their operational capacity when aligning manpower and
<br />resources in support of this capability (e.g., the ability to maintain watch and analytic support
<br />functions over a 24/7 operational tempo).
<br />.Technological Integration: Access to data, information, and products is essential for fusion
<br />centers and the federal government to effectively identify, collect, analyze, and share
<br />information. Just as threats do not stop at jurisdictional borders, fusion centers must be able to
<br />effectively access and share appropriate information and data across jurisdictions, agencies,
<br />and disciplines. Fusion centers must ensure and certify via the Fusion Center Assessment they
<br />have the necessary technological capacity to access, analyze, and share information, including
<br />criminal intelligence and online/social media threat information, both within their jurisdictions,
<br />as well as with other fusion centers across the country and with the Federal Government through
<br />a variety of systems, databases, tools, and technologies that allow for federated searching and
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