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 Account-
ability 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 Home-
land 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 iden-
tify and prepare field personnel for deployment to support 
fusion centers and internal mechanisms to ensure oversight 
and accountability of such field personnel, including field per-
sonnel 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 consulta-
tion 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 Intel-
ligence 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.