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• Implementing models, programs, and workforce enhancement initiatives to address ideologically -inspired radicalization to violence in the homeland; • Tools, resources and activities that facilitate shared situational awareness between the public and private sectors; • Operational Support; • Utilization of standardized resource management concepts such as typing, inventorying, organizing, and tracking to facilitate the dispatch, deployment, and recovery of resources before, during, and after an incident; • Responding to an increase in the threat level under the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), or needs in resulting from a National Special Security Event; and • Paying salaries and benefits for personnel to serve as qualified intelligence analysts. States and Urban Areas must justify proposed expenditures of SHSP or UASI funds to support organization activities within their IJ submission. All SAAB are allowed to utilize up to 50 percent (50%) of their SHSP funding and all Urban Areas are allowed up to 50 percent (50%) of their UASI funding for personnel costs. At the request of a recipient of a grant, the FEMA Administrator may grant a waiver of the 50 percent (50%) limitation noted above. Requests for waivers to the personnel cap must be submitted by the authorized representative of the SAA (or recipient agency) to GPD in writing on official letterhead, with the following information: • Documentation explaining why the cap should be waived; • Conditions under which the request is being submitted; and • A budget and method of calculation of personnel costs both in percentages of the grant award and in total dollar amount. To avoid supplanting issues, the request must also include a three- year staffing history for the requesting entity. Organizational activities under SHSP and UASI include: • Intelligence analysts. Per the Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement (PRICE) of Homeland Security Act (Pub. L. No. 110-412), SHSP and UASI funds may be used to hire new staff and/or contractor positions to serve as intelligence analysts to enable information/intelligence sharing capabilities, as well as support existing intelligence analysts previously covered by SHSP or UASI funding. In order to be hired as an intelligence analyst, staff and/or contractor personnel must meet at least one of the following criteria: - Successfully complete training to ensure baseline proficiency in intelligence analysis and production within six months of being hired; and/or, - Previously served as an intelligence analyst for a minimum of two years either in a Federal intelligence agency, the military, or state and/or local law enforcement intelligence unit As identified in the priority entitled, Maturation and Enhancement of State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers, all fusion center analytic personnel must demonstrate qualifications that meet or exceed competencies identified in the Common Competencies for State, Local, and Tribal Intelligence Analysts, which outlines the minimum categories of training needed for intelligence analysts. A certificate of completion of such training must be on file with the SAA 51 Appendix C—FY2015 HSGP Funding Guidelines