Intelligence and Analysis
Equipping the Homeland Security Enterprise with the intelligence and information needed to keep the Homeland safe, secure, and resilient.
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Fusion Centers Handout
Our nation faces an evolving threat environment, in which threats emanate not only from outside our borders but also from within our communities. This new environment demonstrates the critical role state and major urban area fusion centers (fusion centers) have in supporting the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal government and state, local, tribal, territorial (SLTT), and private sector partners.
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Intelligence and Analysis Organization Chart
The Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) mission is to equip the Homeland Security Enterprise with the intelligence and information it needs to keep the homeland safe, secure, and resilient.
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis Organizational Chart
The mission of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) is to equip the Homeland Security Enterprise with the timely intelligence and information it needs to keep the homeland safe, secure, and resilient.
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Behavioral Approach to Violence Prevention 2.0
This document identifies common threatening or concerning behaviors across a wide variety of completed and averted acts of targeted violence.
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Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021
The ODNI assessment was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and DHS, and includes contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. All agencies involved are mindful of the duty to respect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties and to act within the authorities granted to them as they seek to put together as complete an intelligence and analytic picture as is possible.
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I&A Policies and Reports
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis is committed to transparency with the American public by posting policies, reports, and documents that detail how the organization will achieve its mission objectives while meeting the needs of the Department and other partners.
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DHS Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence
The DHS Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted violence explains how the department will use the tools and expertise that have protected and strengthened the country from foreign terrorist organizations to address the evolving challenges of today.
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SAR Standardized Technical Assistance Consultation and Training Services Overview
This document provides an overview of the suspicious activity reporting (SAR) standardized technical assistance consultation (STAC) and training services, as well as SAR analysis advisory, available to fusion center analysts.
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Suspicious Activity Reporting Fire and Emergency Medical Services Training Overview
This overview provides an introduction to the NSI, relates how fire and emergency medical services professionals may fit into the suspicious activity reporting process, and includes instructions on accessing the training.
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Suspicious Activity Reporting Indicators, Behaviors, and Examples
These tools for analysts and investigators detail potential criminal or noncriminal activities requiring additional information during the vetting process or investigation, as well as defined criminal activity and potential terrorism nexus activity. When the activity involves behavior that may be lawful or is a constitutionally protected activity, the investigating law enforcement agency will carefully assess the information and gather as much information as possible before taking any action, including documenting and validating the information as terrorism-related and sharing it with other law enforcement agencies.