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Definition of the IC
Leadership of the IC
Management of the IC
Members of the IC
Relationships with Other Government Organizations
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Congress
provided the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a
clear statutory mandate to reduce the vulnerability of the
United States to terrorism and to detect, to prevent and to
respond to terrorist attacks. DHS is composed of five Directorates,
one of which (the Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection, IAIP, Directorate) is a member of the Intelligence
Community. IAIP's mission to disseminate information analyzed
by the Department to State and local government agencies and
authorities and private sector entities brings to the post
9/11 federal government a capability for the security and
protection of the nation's domestic assets that did not previously
exist.
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The essential
function of IAIP is mapping the vulnerabilities of the nation's
critical infrastructure against a comprehensive analysis of intelligence
and public source information. This function is unique to the federal
government and fundamental to the nation's ability to better protect
itself from terrorist attack.
Intelligence
Responsibilities
Within IAIP, the Office of Information Analysis (IA) performs the
intelligence activities carried out within DHS. IA responsibilities
are as follows:
- Monitor, assess, and coordinate indications and warnings in
support of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,
who by Executive Order is responsible for implementing the Homeland
Security Advisory System (HSAS).
- Access all information, assessments, analysis, and unevaluated
intelligence relating to terrorist threats to the homeland.
- Maintain real time intelligence connectivity to support situational
awareness during implementation of protective measures and incident
management.
- Assess the scope of terrorist threats to the homeland in order
to understand such threats in light of actual and potential vulnerabilities
of the homeland.
- Integrate threat information and analyses with vulnerability
assessments from the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection
(IP) in order to identify priorities for protective and support
measures by DHS, other agencies of the Federal Government, State
and local government agencies and authorities, the private sector
and other entities.
- Respond to requirements from the Assistant Secretary for
Infrastructure Protection for information analysis and intelligence
requirements.
- Gather and integrate terrorist-related information from DHS
component agencies, State and local government agencies and authorities,
and private sector terrorist-related reporting/information; process
requests for information (RFI) from these component agencies,
State and local government agencies and authorities and private
sector entities.
- Disseminate threat information, intelligence and responses
to RFI's to DHS component agencies, State and local government
agencies and authorities and private sector entities.
IAIP and
the Terrorist Threat Integration Center
The roles and
functions of IAIP and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC)
are complementary and collaborative and enhance the national effort
to detect, disrupt, and prevent terrorism. TTIC makes full use of
all terrorist threat-related information and expertise available
to the US Government and provides comprehensive all-source threat
analysis to the President, to DHS, and to other Federal agencies.
IAIP provides intelligence analysts to the TTIC, who participate
with analysts from other Federal agencies in analyzing this all-source
terrorist information. IAIP also provides TTIC with threat information
gathered and integrated from DHS component agencies, State and local
government agencies and authorities and private sector entities.
IAIP integrates
all-source threat information and analysis received from TTIC and
other agencies of the Intelligence Community with its own vulnerability
assessments to provide tailored threat assessments, including priorities
for protective and support measures to other agencies of the Federal
Government, State and local government agencies and authorities,
and private sector entities. Finally, IAIP administers the Homeland
Security Advisory System to include exercising primary responsibility
for public advisories.
Together, DHS's
IAIP and the TTIC fulfill all of the requirements called for in
sections 201 and 202 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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