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(c) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out the duties de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Chief Intelligence Officer shall
consult with the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center, the Attorney General, the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, the Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, and other appropriate parties,
such as private industry, institutions of higher education,
nonprofit institutions, and other intelligence agencies of the
Federal Government.
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary
to carry out this section.
SEC. 114. INFORMATION SHARING INCENTIVES.
(a) AWARDS.—In making cash awards under chapter
45 of title 5, United States Code, the President or the head
of an agency, in consultation with the program manager
designated under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), may
consider the success of an employee in sharing information
within the scope of the information sharing environment
established under that section in a manner consistent with
any policies, guidelines, procedures, instructions, or stand-
ards established by the President or, as appropriate, the
program manager of that environment for the implementa-
tion and management of that environment.
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(b) OTHER INCENTIVES.—The head of each depart-
ment or agency described in section 1016(i) of the Intel-
ligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 (6
U.S.C. 485(i)), in consultation with the program manager
designated under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), shall
adopt best practices regarding effective ways to educate and
motivate officers and employees of the Federal Government
to engage in the information sharing environment,
including—
(1) promotions and other nonmonetary awards;
and
(2) publicizing information sharing accomplish-
ments by individual employees and, where appro-
priate, the tangible end benefits that resulted.
Subtitle B—Homeland Security
Information Sharing Partnerships
SEC. 121. STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL FUSION CENTER
INITIATIVE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), as amend-
ed by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
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‘‘SEC. 206. STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL FUSION CENTER
INITIATIVE.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘Chief Intelligence Officer’ means
the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Department;
‘‘(2) the term ‘fusion center’ means a collabo-
rative effort of 2 or more Federal, State, local, or trib-
al government agencies that combines resources, ex-
pertise, or information with the goal of maximizing
the ability of such agencies to detect, prevent, inves-
tigate, apprehend, and respond to criminal or ter-
rorist activity;
‘‘(3) the term ‘information sharing environment’
means the information sharing environment estab-
lished under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485);
‘‘(4) the term ‘intelligence analyst’ means an in-
dividual who regularly advises, administers, super-
vises, or performs work in the collection, analysis,
evaluation, reporting, production, or dissemination of
information on political, economic, social, cultural,
physical, geographical, scientific, or military condi-
tions, trends, or forces in foreign or domestic areas
that directly or indirectly affect national security;
‘‘(5) the term ‘intelligence-led policing’ means
the collection and analysis of information to produce
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an intelligence end product designed to inform law
enforcement decision making at the tactical and stra-
tegic levels; and
‘‘(6) the term ‘terrorism information’ has the
meaning given that term in section 1016 of the Intel-
ligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004
(6 U.S.C. 485).
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the program manager of the information sharing
environment established under section 1016 of the Intel-
ligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 (6
U.S.C. 485), the Attorney General, the Privacy Officer of
the Department, the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Lib-
erties of the Department, and the Privacy and Civil Lib-
erties Oversight Board established under section 1061 of the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004
(5 U.S.C. 601 note), shall establish a State, Local, and Re-
gional Fusion Center Initiative to establish partnerships
with State, local, and regional fusion centers.
‘‘(c) DEPARTMENT SUPPORT AND COORDINATION.—
Through the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Ini-
tiative, the Secretary shall—
‘‘(1) coordinate with the principal officer of each
State, local, or regional fusion center and the officer
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designated as the Homeland Security Advisor of the
State;
‘‘(2) provide operational and intelligence advice
and assistance to State, local, and regional fusion
centers;
‘‘(3) support efforts to include State, local, and
regional fusion centers into efforts to establish an in-
formation sharing environment;
‘‘(4) conduct exercises, including live training
exercises, to regularly assess the capability of indi-
vidual and regional networks of State, local, and re-
gional fusion centers to integrate the efforts of such
networks with the efforts of the Department;
‘‘(5) coordinate with other relevant Federal enti-
ties engaged in homeland security-related activities;
‘‘(6) provide analytic and reporting advice and
assistance to State, local, and regional fusion centers;
‘‘(7) review homeland security information gath-
ered by State, local, and regional fusion centers and
incorporate relevant information with homeland secu-
rity information of the Department;
‘‘(8) provide management assistance to State,
local, and regional fusion centers;
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‘‘(9) serve as a point of contact to ensure the dis-
semination of relevant homeland security informa-
tion;
‘‘(10) facilitate close communication and coordi-
nation between State, local, and regional fusion cen-
ters and the Department;
‘‘(11) provide State, local, and regional fusion
centers with expertise on Department resources and
operations;
‘‘(12) provide training to State, local, and re-
gional fusion centers and encourage such fusion cen-
ters to participate in terrorist threat-related exercises
conducted by the Department; and
‘‘(13) carry out such other duties as the Sec-
retary determines are appropriate.
‘‘(d) PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Intelligence Officer
may, to the maximum extent practicable, assign offi-
cers and intelligence analysts from components of the
Department to State, local, and regional fusion cen-
ters.
‘‘(2) PERSONNEL SOURCES.—Officers and intel-
ligence analysts assigned to fusion centers under this
subsection may be assigned from the following De-
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partment components, in consultation with the re-
spective component head:
‘‘(A) Office of Intelligence and Analysis, or
its successor.
‘‘(B) Office of Infrastructure Protection.
‘‘(C) Transportation Security Administra-
tion.
‘‘(D) United States Customs and Border
Protection.
‘‘(E) United States Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement.
‘‘(F) United States Coast Guard.
‘‘(G) Other intelligence components of the
Department, as determined by the Secretary.
‘‘(3) PARTICIPATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may de-
velop qualifying criteria for a fusion center to
participate in the assigning of Department offi-
cers or intelligence analysts under this section.
‘‘(B) CRITERIA.—Any criteria developed
under subparagraph (A) may include—
‘‘(i) whether the fusion center, through
its mission and governance structure, fo-
cuses on a broad counterterrorism approach,
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and whether that broad approach is perva-
sive through all levels of the organization;
‘‘(ii) whether the fusion center has suf-
ficient numbers of adequately trained per-
sonnel to support a broad counterterrorism
mission;
‘‘(iii) whether the fusion center has—
‘‘(I) access to relevant law enforce-
ment, emergency response, private sec-
tor, open source, and national security
data; and
‘‘(II) the ability to share and ana-
lytically exploit that data for author-
ized purposes;
‘‘(iv) whether the fusion center is ade-
quately funded by the State, local, or re-
gional 
government 
to 
support 
its
counterterrorism mission; and
‘‘(v) the relevancy of the mission of the
fusion center to the particular source com-
ponent of Department officers or intelligence
analysts.
‘‘(4) PREREQUISITE.—
‘‘(A) INTELLIGENCE
ANALYSIS, 
PRIVACY,
AND CIVIL LIBERTIES TRAINING.—Before being
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assigned to a fusion center under this section, an
officer or intelligence analyst shall undergo—
‘‘(i) appropriate intelligence analysis
or information sharing training using an
intelligence-led policing curriculum that is
consistent with—
‘‘(I) standard training and edu-
cation programs offered to Department
law enforcement and intelligence per-
sonnel; and
‘‘(II) the Criminal Intelligence
Systems Operating Policies under part
23 of title 28, Code of Federal Regula-
tions (or any corresponding similar
regulation or ruling);
‘‘(ii) appropriate privacy and civil lib-
erties training that is developed, supported,
or sponsored by the Privacy Officer ap-
pointed under section 222 and the Officer
for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the
Department, in partnership with the Pri-
vacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
established under section 1061 of the Intel-
ligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention
Act of 2004 (5 U.S.C. 601 note); and