Item 35 - FY 2022 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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HSGP Appendix | 2023 Page A-26 complex data indexing, social media, open source, facial recognition, unmanned aircraft systems, geographic information systems (GIS), license plate reader technologies, and other artificial intelligence technologies. •Interagency Collaboration: Fusion centers must maintain strong partnerships to enable intelligence, operational, investigative, and analytic collaboration and deconfliction of threat information with other partners located within their jurisdiction and across their region, including HIDTAs, RISS Centers, DHS intelligence, operational, investigative, and analytic entities, FBI Field Offices, JTTFs, and major city/county intelligence units. State and urban area fusion centers receiving SHSP or UASI grant funds will be evaluated based on compliance with the guidance and requirements for the National Network as set forth by DHS Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) through the annual Fusion Center Assessment. •Additional fusion center grant requirements are listed at http://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security- grant-program-hsgp. •FEMA approved analyst courses that meet the grant requirement are listed at http://www.dhs.gov/fema-approved-intelligence-analyst-training-courses. Through the Program Performance Report (PPR), fusion centers will report on the compliance with measurement requirements within the fusion centers through the annual Fusion Center Assessment managed by DHS I&A and reported to FEMA. In addition to the activities identified in the National Prevention Framework, fusion centers are also required to collaborate with those analytic, investigative, and information-sharing entities focused on preventing, detecting, deterring, and disrupting acts of terrorism and combating transnational criminal organizations. Such entities include, but are not limited to JTTFs, Area Maritime Security Committees, Border Enforcement Security Task Forces, Integrated Border Enforcement Teams, HIDTAs, and RISS Centers, as well as other federal intelligence, operational, analytic, and investigative entities. Applicants will be required to provide information regarding their information sharing partnerships, including how they will identify, address, and overcome any existing laws, policies, and practices that prevent information sharing, via the Information and Intelligence National Priority Investment and supporting data via the annual Fusion Center Assessment. Fusion Center Performance Measures Reference Number Performance Measures 2023.1 Percentage of federal Information Intelligence Reports (IIRs) originating from fusion center information that address a specific Intelligence Community need 2023.2 Percentage of federal IIRs originating from fusion center information that the Intelligence Community otherwise used in performing its mission (e.g., contained first-time reporting; corroborated existing information; addressed a critical intelligence gap; or helped to define an issue or target) 2023.3 Number of SARs vetted and submitted by fusion centers that result in the initiation or enhancement of an investigation by the FBI 2023.4 Number of SAR vetted and submitted by fusion centers that involve an individual on the Watchlist 2023.5 Percentage of Requests for Information (RFIs) from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) for which fusion centers provided information for a TSC case file 2023.6 Percentage of I&A Watchlist nominations that were initiated or updated existing case files based on information provided by fusion centers