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DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis

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Formed
  
2007

Employees
  
852 (2013)

Jurisdiction
  
United States

Annual budget
  
$0.3 billion (2013)

DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Headquarters
  
DHS Nebraska Avenue Complex, Washington D.C.

Agency executive
  
General Frank Taylor (ret.), Under Secretary

The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. Under the direction of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, I&A is responsible for developing DHS-wide intelligence through managing the collection, analysis and fusion of intelligence throughout the entire Department. I&A disseminates intelligence throughout DHS, to the other members of the United States Intelligence Community, and to first responders at the state, local, and tribal level.

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Overview

The Office tracks terrorists and their networks as well as assess threats to critical American infrastructures, bio- and nuclear terrorism, pandemic diseases, threats to the borders (air, land, and sea) of the United States, and radicalization within American society.

To achieve its mission, the Office focuses on four principal areas:

  • Improving the quality and quantity of its analysis
  • Integrating the intelligence elements of the Department
  • Sharing threat information and assessments with state and local governments and the private sector
  • Ensuring the Department is an effective member of the United States Intelligence Community

    • Organization

  • Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis
  • Principal Deputy Under Secretary
  • Deputy Under Secretary – Enterprise and Mission Support
  • Knowledge Management
  • Mission Support
  • Collection and Requirements
  • External Operations
  • Counter-Intelligence Program
  • Deputy Under Secretary – Analysis
  • Cyber, Infrastructure, and Science
  • Production Management
  • Current Intelligence
  • Border Security
  • Homeland Counter-Terrorism
  • Deputy Under Secretary – Plans, Policy, and Performance Management
  • Program Performance Management
  • Information Sharing and Intelligence Enterprise Sharing
  • Strategy, Plans, and Policy
  • Director, Office of State and Local Programs

    • References

    DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis Wikipedia
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