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‘‘SEC. 210. 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 Terrorism Prevention Act of 
2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), may consider the success of an employee 
in appropriately sharing information within the scope of the 
information sharing environment established under that section, 
including homeland security information, terrorism information, 
and weapons of mass destruction information, or national intel-
ligence (as defined in section 3(5) of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(5)), in a manner consistent with any poli-
cies, guidelines, procedures, instructions, or standards established 
by the President or, as appropriate, the program manager of that 
environment for the implementation and management of that 
environment. 
‘‘(b) OTHER INCENTIVES.—The head of each department or 
agency described in section 1016(i) of the Intelligence Reform and 
Terrorism 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 Terrorism 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 participate fully in the information sharing environment, 
including— 
‘‘(1) promotions and other nonmonetary awards; and 
‘‘(2) publicizing information sharing accomplishments by 
individual employees and, where appropriate, the tangible end 
benefits that resulted.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in section 
1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) 
is amended further by inserting after the item relating to section 
206 the following: 
‘‘Sec. 207. Intelligence components. 
‘‘Sec. 208. Training for employees of intelligence components. 
‘‘Sec. 209. Intelligence training development for State and local government offi-
cials. 
‘‘Sec. 210. Information sharing incentives.’’. 
SEC. 504. INFORMATION SHARING. 
Section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Preven-
tion Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
paragraphs (2) through (5), respectively; 
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesig-
nated, the following: 
‘‘(1) HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION.—The term ‘home-
land security information’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 892(f) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 482(f)).’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (3), as so redesignated, and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(3) INFORMATION
SHARING
ENVIRONMENT.—The terms 
‘information sharing environment’ and ‘ISE’ mean an approach 
that facilitates the sharing of terrorism and homeland security 
information, which may include any method determined nec-
essary and appropriate for carrying out this section.’’;
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(D) by striking paragraph (5), as so redesignated, and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(5) 
TERRORISM
INFORMATION.—The 
term 
‘terrorism 
information’— 
‘‘(A) means all information, whether collected, pro-
duced, or distributed by intelligence, law enforcement, mili-
tary, homeland security, or other activities relating to— 
‘‘(i) the existence, organization, capabilities, plans, 
intentions, vulnerabilities, means of finance or material 
support, or activities of foreign or international ter-
rorist groups or individuals, or of domestic groups or 
individuals involved in transnational terrorism; 
‘‘(ii) threats posed by such groups or individuals 
to the United States, United States persons, or United 
States interests, or to those of other nations; 
‘‘(iii) communications of or by such groups or 
individuals; or 
‘‘(iv) groups or individuals reasonably believed to 
be assisting or associated with such groups or individ-
uals; and 
‘‘(B) includes weapons of mass destruction informa-
tion.’’; and 
(E) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION INFORMATION.—The 
term ‘weapons of mass destruction information’ means informa-
tion that could reasonably be expected to assist in the develop-
ment, proliferation, or use of a weapon of mass destruction 
(including a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear 
weapon) that could be used by a terrorist or a terrorist organiza-
tion against the United States, including information about 
the location of any stockpile of nuclear materials that could 
be exploited for use in such a weapon that could be used 
by a terrorist or a terrorist organization against the United 
States.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(J) integrates the information within the scope of the 
information sharing environment, including any such 
information in legacy technologies; 
‘‘(K) integrates technologies, including all legacy tech-
nologies, through Internet-based services, consistent with 
appropriate security protocols and safeguards, to enable 
connectivity among required users at the Federal, State, 
and local levels; 
‘‘(L) allows the full range of analytic and operational 
activities without the need to centralize information within 
the scope of the information sharing environment; 
‘‘(M) permits analysts to collaborate both independently 
and in a group (commonly known as ‘collective and non-
collective collaboration’), and across multiple levels of 
national security information and controlled unclassified 
information; 
‘‘(N) provides a resolution process that enables changes 
by authorized officials regarding rules and policies for the