H. R. 504 

One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty 

An Act 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Department of Homeland 

Security to develop an engagement strategy with fusion centers, and for other 

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Field Engagement Accountability Act’’. 

SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH FUSION CENTERS. 

Section 210A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 

124h) is amended by— 

(1) redesignating subsections (j) and (k) as subsections 

(k) and (l), respectively; and 

(2) inserting after subsection (i) the following: 

‘‘(j) FUSION CENTER INFORMATION SHARING STRATEGY.—Not 

later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the DHS 

Field Engagement Accountability Act, and not less frequently than 

once every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall develop or update 

a strategy for Department engagement with fusion centers. Such 

strategy shall be developed and updated in consultation with the 

heads of intelligence components of the Department, the Chief 

Privacy Officer, the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 

officials of fusion centers, officers designated as Homeland Security 

Advisors, and the heads of other relevant agencies, as appropriate. 

Such strategy shall include the following: 

‘‘(1) Specific goals and objectives for sharing information 

and engaging with fusion centers— 

‘‘(A) through the direct deployment of personnel from 

intelligence components of the Department; 

‘‘(B) through the use of Department unclassified and 

classified information sharing systems, including the Homeland Security Information Network and the Homeland 

Secure Data Network, or any successor systems; and 

‘‘(C) through any additional means. 

‘‘(2) The performance metrics to be used to measure success 

in achieving the goals and objectives referred to in paragraph 

(1). 

‘‘(3) A 5-year plan for continued engagement with fusion 

centers.’’. 
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SEC. 3. OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYSIS FIELD PERSONNEL 

SUPPORT TO FUSION CENTERS. 

(a) PERFORMANCE METRICS.—Not later than 180 days after 

the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary for 

Intelligence and Analysis shall— 

(1) consider the effectiveness of existing processes to identify and prepare field personnel for deployment to support 

fusion centers and internal mechanisms to ensure oversight 

and accountability of such field personnel, including field personnel assigned to one center and field personnel assigned 

to multiple centers; and 

(2) publish and disseminate performance metrics, taking 

into account, as appropriate, regional and threat diversity, for— 

(A) field personnel from the Office of Intelligence and 

Analysis assigned to an individual fusion center; 

(B) field personnel from the Office of Intelligence and 

Analysis assigned to multiple fusion centers; and 

(C) Regional Directors of the Office of Intelligence and 

Analysis to ensure accountability for monitoring all field 

personnel under the supervision of such Regional Directors. 

(b) TRAINING.—In consultation with the Chief Information 

Officer, the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall 

develop and implement a formalized training module for fusion 

center personnel regarding the classified Homeland Secure Data 

Network, or any successor system. 

(c) FUSION CENTER DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘fusion 

center’’ has the meaning given such term in section 210A(k) of 

the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as so redesignated by section 

2. 

SEC. 4. DHS COMPONENT USAGE OF THE HOMELAND SECURITY 

INFORMATION NETWORK. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 

the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, and 

in accordance with the functions and responsibilities assigned to 

the Under Secretary under title II of the Homeland Security Act 

of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), shall— 

(1) develop policies and metrics to ensure effective use 

by components of the Department of the unclassified Homeland 

Security Information Network (referred to in this section as 

‘‘HSIN’’), or any successor system; and 

(2) develop policies for posting unclassified products on 

HSIN, or any successor system. 

(b) TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENTS.—The Chief Information Officer, 

in consultation with the Chief Intelligence Officer, shall assess 

and implement, as appropriate, technical enhancements to HSIN 

to improve usability, including search functionality, data analysis, 

and collaboration capabilities. 

SEC. 5. REPORT. 

Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment 

of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a 

report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs of the Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
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Representatives, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives that describes the 

implementation of— 

(1) the fusion center information sharing strategy required 

under section 210A(j) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, 

as added by section 2, based on performance metrics developed 

pursuant to such strategy; 

(2) the deployment of field personnel to fusion centers 

(as such term is defined in section 210A of the Homeland 

Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 124h)), in accordance with section 

3, based on performance metrics developed pursuant to such 

section; and 

(3) policies that seek to ensure the effective use of the 

Homeland Security Information Network, in accordance with 

section 4, based on the metrics developed pursuant to such 

section. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.