Download or read book The Way Forward with Fusion Centers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Way Forward with Fusion Centers written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way forward with fusion centers : challenges and strategies for change : hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 27, 2007.

Download or read book The Way Forward with Fusion Centers written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way forward with fusion centers: challenges and strategies for change: hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 27, 2007.

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Download or read book The Way Forward With Fusion Centers Challenges and Strategies for Change Serial No 110 73 September 27 2007 110 1 Hearing written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fusion Center Challenges written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study intends to uncover why critics have cited fusion centers at the national, regional, and state levels of the Intelligence Community (IC) for the inability to share intelligence. The research method examines three case studies: the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), and state and local fusion centers now combined into a National Network. All three case studies reveal how fusion centers at these various levels of the IC have been inhibited from sharing information because of three primary challenges: (1) the absence of a standardized model, (2) an insufficient concentration on counterterrorism (CT) as a mission, and (3) underdeveloped or missing external agency partnerships, although each challenge often affects each particular case study in different ways. For NCTC, external partnerships exhibit the most prevalent challenge at the national level; for EPIC, the diffusion of its mission creates the most difficult obstacle for it to overcome; and for the National Network, standardization precludes state and local fusion centers from sharing information while barring them from a more refined mission-set and better, more reciprocal partnerships. I. INTRODUCTION * A. THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH FUSION CENTERS * B. WHY FUSION CENTERS EXIST * C. WHY FUSION CENTERS FAIL TO SHARE INFORMATION * 1. Critiques of Fusion Centers * 2. The Absence of a Standardized Model * 3. The Counter-Terrorism Mission * 4. Underdeveloped or Missing External Agency Partnerships * 5. Conclusions * D. WHAT THE ANALYSIS REVEALS * E. RESEARCH DESIGN AND CASE STUDIES * F. THESIS OVERVIEW AND CHAPTER OUTLINE * II. THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER * A. INTRODUCTION * B. BACKGROUND * 1. Executive Order 13354 * 2. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act * 3. The Mission of NCTC * 4. The Functions of NCTC * 5. The Structure of NCTC * C. REVIEWS, CRITICISM, AND SUPPORT FOR THE NCTC * D. THE LACK OF A STANDARDIZED MODEL * E. COUNTERTERRORISM AS A MISSION * F. UNDERDEVELOPED OR MISSING EXTERNAL AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS * 1. NCTC's Partnership Problem * 2. NCTC Partnership Achievements and Solutions * G. SUMMARY * III. THE EL PASO INTELLIGENCE CENTER * A. INTRODUCTION * B. THE BACKGROUND OF EPIC * C. REVIEWS, CRITICISM, AND SUPPORT FOR EPIC * D. THE ABSENCE OF A STANDARDIZED MODEL * E. COUNTERTERRORISM AS A MISSION * F. UNDERDEVELOPED OR MISSING EXTERNAL AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS * G. SUMMARY * IV. STATE AND LOCAL FUSION CENTERS * A. INTRODUCTION * 1. Differences in Opinion between State and Federal Leaders. * B. THE BACKGROUND OF FUSION CENTERS * 1. The Founding History * 2. The Information Sharing Environment (ISE) * 3. Priorities and Functions of State and Local Fusion Centers * C. REVIEWS, CRITICISM, AND SUPPORT FOR FUSION CENTERS * D. THE ABSENCE OF A STANDARDIZED MODEL * 1. The Lack of Standardization as a Benefit * E. COUNTERTERRORISM AS A MISSION * 1. An Expanded Mission * 2. The Relationship between Crime and Terror * 3. The Way Ahead * F. UNDERDEVELOPED OR MISSING EXTERNAL AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS * 1. The Way Ahead * G. SUMMARY * V. CONCLUSION * A. NCTC * 1. The Lack of a Standardized Model * 2. Counterterrorism as a Mission * 3. Underdeveloped or Missing External Agency Partnerships * B. EPIC * 1. The Lack of a Standardized Model * 2. Counterterrorism as a Mission * . Underdeveloped or Missing External Agency Partnerships * C. STATE AND LOCAL FUSION CENTERS * 1. The Lack of a Standardized Model * 2. Counterterrorism as a Mission * 3. Underdeveloped or Missing External Agency Partnerships. * D. RECOMMENDATIONS * E. FINAL THOUGHTS * 1. The Largest Hurdle

Download or read book A Practitioner s Way Forward written by David W. Brannan and published by Agilepress. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides practitioners and analysts in the field with effective tools for conducting analysis of terrorist groups and other violent substate groups. Free from unnecessary jargon and presented in a user-friendly format, the book offers analytical perspectives and techniques that are practical as well as intellectually rigorous; accessible and instantly applicable, while also based on solid social science theory and methodology. Part handbook, part reference book, it identifies the major obstacles to effective analysis, examines the most commonly used interpretations of terrorism, and goes on to present a unified model for analysis. This model, based on insights from social psychology, is highly adaptive and can be applied by the analyst to violent substate groups across the ideological and geographical spectrum. The final chapter contains a number of such applications ways of doing analysis using real examples to which the reader can refer for clarification and guidance. A Practitioner's Way Forward: Terrorism Analysis is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and analyze terrorism. Authoritative and clear, the book is equally useful both as an instructional guide and reference work. Its commendably straightforward approach and authoritative imparting of information make it the single most reliable source for law enforcement personnel, first responders, and other professionals engaged in the investigation, research, and analysis of terrorism. -- Professor Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University This book will make you stop and level set your thinking. It is remarkable particularly for those at the state and local level charged with countering terrorism, and even more so for those assigned to fusion centers who are required to think critically on this subject because it moves well beyond the traditional frames for assessing terrorists and terrorism this book provides a methodology for understanding terrorism by first recognizing and interpreting intergroup behavior. -- Ray Guidetti, Law Enforcement veteran and former Vice President of the National Fusion Center Association A Practitioner s Way Forward is a powerful tool for counterterrorism practitioners. It is eminently readable and impressively substantive, and provides a thoughtful way for practitioners to think about terrorism, conduct analysis, and utilize methodologically-sophisticated approaches. It is also widely accessible: user-friendly for the beginner, but rigorous enough for the advanced analyst. -- Seth G. Jones, author of Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa ida Since 9/11 "This is one of the rare books on analytical tradecraft that has relevance to the challenges facing domestic law enforcement today the research provides the practitioner a guide to help construct, explain and potentially predict the intent and actions of our modern day adversary. -- Michael McClary, Assistant Sheriff (Ret), Law Enforcement Investigations & Homeland Security, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department "

Download or read book The Future of Fusion Centers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Department of Homeland Security State and Local Fusion Center Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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