The Justice Information Integration Specialists

Many states and local jurisdictions have established intelligence centers to fuse terrorist threat information from multiple sources and different levels of government.

These "intelligence fusion centers" are being established to process information from the federal government as well as gather threat information from within state and local jurisdictions. Intelligence fusion centers are finally being recognized by the federal government as a key link to state and local governments, which are becoming not just consumers of intelligence information but also collectors of it.

DHS' Office of State and Local Government Coordination needs to develop national programs that span jurisdictions and facilitate information sharing. Both interagency communications and cross-jurisdictional information sharing are far from perfect at this point, and many questions remain about how to resolve these challenges. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of Justice Programs, last year, released its Fusion Center Guidelines making recommendations about the centers’ law enforcement role, governance, connectivity standards, databases and security.

Related to IT needs, the report specifically recommends use of the Global Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) data model, the Common Alerting Protocol messaging standards, and service-oriented architectures for improved information-sharing.

JusticeExperts.com has extensive experience in the planning and design of information sharing projects, including all the recommended and required technologies, design patterns and specifications per the Fusion Center Guidelines.

JusticeExperts.com can assist your Fusion Center efforts with:

• Governance Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Architectural Design
• Implementation Planning
• Grant Writing and Management

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