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<br />Preparedness Grants Manual
<br />data/information analysis that protects Personally Identifiable Information and includes
<br />appropriate security, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections. This includes
<br />maintenance of the ability to collect, integrate, evaluate, and assess SAR, tips/leads, data
<br />resident in Computer Assisted/Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS),
<br />and online/social media-based threats from agencies across the jurisdiction. Such approaches
<br />should also address the evaluation and use of emerging capabilities, including social network
<br />analysis, federated search technology across CAD, RMS, and other data systems, complex data
<br />indexing, social media, open source, facial recognition, unmanned aircraft systems, geographic
<br />information systems (GIS), license plate reader technologies, and other artificial intelligence
<br />technologies.
<br />.Interagency Collaboration: Fusion centers must maintain strong partnerships to enable
<br />intelligence, operational, investigative, and analytic collaboration and deconfliction of threat
<br />information with other partners located within their jurisdiction and across their region, including
<br />HIDTAs, RISS Centers, DHS intelligence, operational, investigative, and analytic entities, FBI Field
<br />Offices, JTTFs, and major city/county intelligence units.
<br />State and urban area fusion centers receiving SHSP or UASI grant funds will be evaluated based on
<br />compliance with the guidance and requirements for the National Network as set forth by DHS
<br />Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) through the annual Fusion Center Assessment.
<br />.Additional fusion center grant requirements, including 28 C.F.R. Part 23 requirements, are listed
<br />at the Fusion Center Performance Program’s HSGP page on DHS.gov and in the 28 C.F.R. Part
<br />23 Online Training.
<br />.FEMA approved analyst courses that meet the grant requirement are listed at FEMA Approved
<br />Intelligence Analyst Training Courses page on DHS.gov.
<br />Through the PPR, fusion centers will report on the compliance with measurement requirements
<br />within the fusion centers through the annual Fusion Center Assessment managed by DHS I&A and
<br />reported to FEMA. In addition to the activities identified in the National Prevention Framework, fusion
<br />centers are also required to collaborate with those analytic, investigative, and information-sharing
<br />entities focused on preventing, detecting, deterring, and disrupting acts of terrorism and combating
<br />transnational criminal organizations. Such entities include, but are not limited to JTTFs, AMSC,
<br />Border Enforcement Security Task Forces, Integrated Border Enforcement Teams, HIDTAs, and RISS
<br />Centers, as well as other federal intelligence, operational, analytic, and investigative entities.
<br />Applicants will be required to provide information regarding their information sharing partnerships,
<br />including how they will identify, address, and overcome any existing laws, policies, and practices that
<br />prevent information sharing, via the Information and Intelligence National Priority Investment and
<br />supporting data via the annual Fusion Center Assessment.
<br />8.5.1. FUSION CENTER PERFORMANCE MEASURES
<br />Table 7: Fusion Center Performance Measures
<br />Reference Performance Measures
<br />Number*
<br />Percentage of federal Information Intelligence Reports (IIRs) originating from fusion
<br />center information that address a specific Intelligence Community needYEAR.1
<br />62
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