DHS update: added admixture centers and “urban breadth intelligence platform” for FEMA H1N1 resistors
www.dhs.gov Urban Area Intelligence Platform (UAIP) Central to this proposal is the establishment, at the Secretary’s direction, of a new Joint Fusion Center Program Management Office (JFC PMO). The JFC PMO will lead a unified Department-wide effort to develop and implement survey tools to ensure state, local and tribal customers are provided the opportunity to define and identify the types of homeland security-related information they need, and the format in which they need it. The JFC PMO will also develop mechanisms, in coordination with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial authorities, to improve the capability of state and major urban area fusion centers to gather, assess, analyze and share locally generated and national information and intelligence, in order to provide complete pictures of regional and national threats and trends. Department intelligence production and dissemination processes, in turn, will be streamlined to better support these consumer-driven needs. While I&A will manage the JFC PMO on a day-to-day basis, the Secretary has made it clear that all relevant DHS components will be involved, and will have new responsibilities when it comes to providing coordinated support to fusion centers. I&A is also supporting the fusion centers by partnering with the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) to provide training for new and current fusion center analysts. In addition, CRCL, the DOJ Office of Justice Programs and I&A are working …