§124a — Title 6 Domestic Security | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must make the Department’s intelligence units use the same format and bring their intelligence products together when those products involve homeland security, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, or national intelligence. Internal security rules, personnel records, and other administrative processes run by the chief security officer are not included. The Secretary must also name, for each intelligence unit, an information sharing and knowledge management officer who reports to the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis and helps coordinate the systems used to collect and share these kinds of information. Through the Under Secretary or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Secretary must set department-wide rules to review and analyze information from state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector, add that information into Department and other federal systems when appropriate, and share it inside the Department and with other agencies. The Department must give feedback to people who send information. Employees must get training on what these types of information mean, when the information they handle might count, and how it could matter to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The Under Secretary must regularly check how staff use and share this information and report those checks to component heads. Definitions: homeland security information — information related to homeland security. National intelligence — the legal term in Title 50, section 3003(5).

Title 6, §124a

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(a)Consistent with section 485 of this title, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, shall integrate the information and standardize the format of the products of the intelligence components of the Department containing homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information, or national intelligence (as defined in section 3003(5) of title 50) except for any internal security protocols or personnel information of such intelligence components, or other administrative processes that are administered by any chief security officer of the Department.

(b)For each intelligence component of the Department, the Secretary shall designate an information sharing and knowledge management officer who shall report to the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis regarding coordinating the different systems used in the Department to gather and disseminate homeland security information or national intelligence (as defined in section 3003(5) of title 50).

(c)(1)The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as appropriate, shall—

(A)establish Department-wide procedures for the review and analysis of information provided by State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector;

(B)as appropriate, integrate such information into the information gathered by the Department and other departments and agencies of the Federal Government; and

(C)make available such information, as appropriate, within the Department and to other departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

(2)The Secretary shall develop mechanisms to provide feedback regarding the analysis and utility of information provided by any entity of State, local, or tribal government or the private sector that provides such information to the Department.

(d)(1)The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as appropriate, shall provide to employees of the Department opportunities for training and education to develop an understanding of—

(A)the definitions of homeland security information and national intelligence (as defined in section 3003(5) of title 50); and

(B)how information available to such employees as part of their duties—

(i)might qualify as homeland security information or national intelligence; and

(ii)might be relevant to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the intelligence components of the Department.

(2)The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall—

(A)on an ongoing basis, evaluate how employees of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the intelligence components of the Department are utilizing homeland security information or national intelligence, sharing information within the Department, as described in this subchapter, and participating in the information sharing environment established under section 485 of this title; and

(B)provide to the appropriate component heads regular reports regarding the evaluations under subparagraph (A).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (d)(2)(A), was in the original “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2145, which enacted this subchapter, amended section 1030, 2511, 2512, 2520, 2701 to 2703, and 3125 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, section 10102 and 10122 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law

Enforcement

, and section 401a of Title 50, War and National Defense, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 101 of this title and listed in a Provisions for Review, Promulgation, or Amendment of Federal Sentencing Guidelines Relating to Specific Offenses table set out under section 994 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

2018—Subsecs. (c)(1), (d)(1). Pub. L. 115–278 substituted “Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency” for “Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection” in introductory provisions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Receipt of Information From United States Secret Service Pub. L. 110–53, title V, § 502(b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 311, provided that: “(1) In general.—The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall receive from the United States Secret Service homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information (as these terms are defined in Section [sic] 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485)), or national intelligence, as defined in Section [sic] 3(5) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(5)) [now 50 U.S.C. 3003(5)], as well as suspect information obtained in criminal investigations. The United States Secret Service shall cooperate with the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis with respect to activities under section 204 and 205 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 [6 U.S.C. 124a, 124b]. “(2) Savings clause.—Nothing in this Act [see Tables for classification] shall interfere with the operation of Section [sic] 3056(g) of Title 18, United States Code, or with the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Director of the United States Secret Service regarding the budget of the United States Secret Service.”

§124a Homeland security information sharing