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NSI Concept of Operations 4.4............................................................................................................................. Dissemination ........................................................................................................................... 21 4.4.1 Post ISE-SARs to ISE Shared Spaces................................................................. 21 4.4.2 Access and Display ISE-SARs .......................................................................... 22 4.5 Reevaluation......................................................................................................... 23 4.5.1 Establish a National Framework for CT Information Needs.................................. 23 4.6 Feedback.............................................................................................................. 23 Sectio n 5 The ISE-SAR Evaluation Environment............................................................... 24 5.1 Objectives ............................................................................................................ 24 5.2 Participating Organizations .................................................................................... 24 5.3 Functional Capabilities .......................................................................................... 26 Sectio n 6 Managing the NSI .................................................................................................. 27 6.1 Agency Roles, Missions, and Responsibilities.......................................................... 27 6.1.1 Federal ........................................................................................................... 27 6.1.2 State, Local, and Tribal .................................................................................... 30 6.2 The ISE-SAR Steering Committee.......................................................................... 30 6.3 NSI Performance Management............................................................................... 31 Appendix A – Mapping of NSIS Requirements to NSI Cycle ................................................. 33 Appendix B – The NSI as an Integrated ISE Shared Space Environment ............................ 35 Appendix C – Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................ 39 ii
NSI Concept of Operations Section 1 Introduction 1.1 Background The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Initiative as described in this Concept of Operations (CONOPS) builds on what law enforcement and other agencies have been doing for years—gathering information regarding behaviors and incidents associated with crime—and establishes a process whereby SAR information can be shared to help detect and prevent terrorism-related criminal activity. 1 Although not specifically using the term “suspicious activity reporting,” the 9/11 Commission Report is replete with examples of opportunities lost because available information was inaccessible outside a specific agency or narrow community of interest because of what the Commission referred to as “the human or systemic resistance to sharing information.” The Commission recognized that Federal, State, local, and tribal (SLT) governments have access to information which could, when synthesized with information from other sources, help identify precursor activities of terrorist attacks. 2 The challenge is to make this information available to those who need it in time to protect our people and institutions while at the same time ensuring that information privacy, civil liberties, and other legal rights are adequately protected. In the fall of 2005, recognizing that suspicious activity reporting could make an important contribution to the Nation’s efforts to combat terrorism, the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG), an arm of the National Security Council, tasked the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to work with the counterterrorism (CT) community to develop options for improving the value of SAR to the CT mission. In September 2006, the CSG directed the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) to build on this work and incorporate it into implementation planning activities for the Information Sharing Environment. Section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) directs the President to establish the ISE—defined broadly as an approach that facilitates the sharing of terrorism information—”in a manner consistent with national security and with applicable legal standards relating to privacy and civil liberties.” 3 The purpose of the ISE is to rationalize, standardize, and harmonize the policies, business processes, standards, and systems used to share terrorism-related information. Although the intent is to achieve as much uniformity as possible across the ISE, actual 1 2 3 This CONOPS uses the term “Suspicious Activity Report” in its most general sense; see Section 2.1 for a formal definition. Accordingly, this term or its abbreviation (SAR) should not be confused with the very specific use of the same term in the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, 31 USC 5311‐5330, (as amended), and 31 CFR §103.18 where it describes a standardized report that banks are required to make on suspicious banking transactions relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (July 2004), pp. 416‐419. Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Public Law No. 108‐458 (December 2004), §1016(b)(1). The responsibilities of the Program Manager are spelled out in §1016(f)(2). 1
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