PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Consistent with section 485 of this title, the Secretary must use the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis to combine and standardize intelligence products across the Department about homeland security, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, or national intelligence (see section 3003(5) of title 50). Internal security rules, personnel records, and certain administrative processes run by chief security officers 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 and helps coordinate the Department’s systems for collecting and sharing these kinds of information. The Secretary, through the Under Secretary or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency when appropriate, must set up department-wide procedures to review and analyze information from State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector, and to share and integrate that information with other federal agencies when appropriate. The Department must give feedback to people and groups who send information. The Department must train employees so they understand what counts as homeland security information or national intelligence and when their work-related information might be relevant. The Under Secretary must regularly check how employees use and share this information and report those findings to the heads of the relevant components.

Title 6, §124a

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(a)Information sharing

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)Information sharing and knowledge management officers

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)State, local, and private-sector sources of information

(1)Establishment of business processes

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)Feedback

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)Training and evaluation of employees

(1)Training

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)

(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)Evaluations

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