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plementing the 9/11 Commission Recommenda-
tions Act of 2007, the Secretary shall develop 
a Border Intelligence Fusion Center Program 
implementation plan and submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a copy of such 
plan. In developing such plan, the Secretary 
shall consult with State, local, and tribal au-
thorities responsible for border State fusion 
centers. 
‘‘(B) 
CONTENTS.—The 
implementation 
plan should also address the following elements 
for effective program assessment: 
‘‘(i) A clear articulation of the pur-
poses, goals, and specific objectives for 
which the program is being developed. 
‘‘(ii) An identification of program 
stakeholders and an assessment of their in-
terests in and expectations of the program. 
‘‘(iii) A developed set of quantitative 
metrics to measure, to the extent possible, 
program output. 
‘‘(iv) A developed set of qualitative in-
struments (e.g., surveys and expert inter-
views) to assess the extent to which stake-
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holders believe their needs and expecta-
tions are being met. 
‘‘(2) STATUS REPORTS AND CONTINUATION AS-
SESSMENT.— 
‘‘(A) STATUS REPORTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary 
shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees status reports on the 
Border Intelligence Fusion Center Pro-
gram. The reports shall address the ele-
ments described in paragraph (1)(B). The 
reports shall also include the following: 
‘‘(I) A description of the training 
programs in place for CBP and ICE 
officers and intelligence analysts par-
ticipating in the program. 
‘‘(II) A listing of the border 
State fusion centers where CBP and 
ICE officers and intelligence analysts 
are deployed. 
‘‘(III) A representative survey of 
State, local, and tribal law enforce-
ment officers serving border jurisdic-
tions regarding the specificity and ac-
tionable nature of the border intel-
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ligence provided by CBP and ICE of-
ficers at such fusion centers. 
‘‘(IV) A description of the results 
of the customer satisfaction surveys 
submitted by users of the products de-
scribed in subsection (e)(1). 
‘‘(ii) 
DEADLINES.—Status 
reports 
under clause (i) shall be submitted not 
later than— 
‘‘(I) one year after the date of 
the enactment of the Implementing 
the 9/11 Commission Recommenda-
tions Act of 2007; and 
‘‘(II) three and five years after 
the date on which the Border Intel-
ligence Fusion Center Program is es-
tablished. 
‘‘(B) CONTINUATION
ASSESSMENT.—Not 
later than the end of the fifth year following the 
date on which the Border Intelligence Fusion 
Center Program is established, the Secretary 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a Border Intelligence Fusion Center 
Program Continuation Assessment. The con-
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tinuation assessment shall accomplish the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) Recommend whether the program 
should continue in its present or some al-
tered form or not. 
‘‘(ii) Provide the reasons for that rec-
ommendation. 
‘‘(iii) If the recommendation is that 
the program should continue, list and de-
scribe legislative priorities for Congress re-
garding the continuation of the program, 
and provide recommended appropriations 
amounts and justifications for them. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITION OF BORDER STATE FUSION CEN-
TER.—The term ‘border State fusion center’ means a fu-
sion center located in the State of Washington, Idaho, 
Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, 
Maine, California, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 203 the following: 
‘‘Sec. 204. Border Intelligence Fusion Center Program.’’. 
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Subtitle C—Homeland Security 
Information Sharing Enhancement 
SEC. 721. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Homeland Security 
Information Sharing Enhancement Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 722. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 205. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Under Secretary for Intel-
ligence and Analysis shall implement a Homeland Security 
Advisory System in accordance with this section to provide 
public advisories and alerts regarding threats to homeland 
security, including national, regional, local, and economic 
sector advisories and alerts, as appropriate. 
‘‘(b) REQUIRED ELEMENTS.—The Under Secretary, 
under the System— 
‘‘(1) shall include, in each advisory and alert re-
garding a threat, information on appropriate protec-
tive measures and countermeasures that may be 
taken in response to the threat; 
‘‘(2) shall, whenever possible, limit the scope of 
each advisory and alert to a specific region, locality, 
or economic sector believed to be at risk; and 
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‘‘(3) shall not, in issuing any advisory or alert, 
use color designations as the exclusive means of 
specifying the homeland security threat conditions 
that are the subject of the advisory or alert.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by adding at the 
end of the items relating to subtitle A of title II the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 205. Homeland Security Advisory System.’’. 
SEC. 723. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is further 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 206. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING. 
‘‘(a) INFORMATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT.—Con-
sistent with section 1016 of the National Intelligence Re-
form and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 
485) and in accordance with all other applicable laws and 
regulations, the Secretary shall integrate and standardize 
the information of the intelligence components of the De-
partment into a Department information sharing environ-
ment, to be administered by the Under Secretary for Intel-
ligence and Analysis. 
‘‘(b) INFORMATION
SHARING
AND
KNOWLEDGE 
MANAGEMENT OFFICERS.—For each intelligence compo-
nent of the Department, the Secretary shall designate an 
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information sharing and knowledge management officer 
who shall report to the Under Secretary for Intelligence 
and Analysis with respect to coordinating the different 
systems used in the Department to gather and disseminate 
homeland security information. 
‘‘(c) STATE, LOCAL, AND PRIVATE-SECTOR SOURCES 
OF INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
BUSINESS
PROC-
ESSES.—The Under Secretary for Intelligence and 
Analysis shall establish Department-wide procedures 
for the review and analysis of information gathered 
from State, local, tribal, and private-sector sources 
and, as appropriate, integrate such information into 
the information gathered by the Department and 
other department and agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment. 
‘‘(2) FEEDBACK.—The Secretary shall develop 
mechanisms to provide analytical and operational 
feedback to any State, local, tribal, and private-sec-
tor entities that gather information and provide such 
information to the Secretary. 
‘‘(d) TRAINING AND EVALUATION OF EMPLOYEES.— 
‘‘(1) TRAINING.—The Under Secretary shall 
provide to employees of the Department opportuni-
ties for training and education to develop an under-
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standing of the definition of homeland security infor-
mation, how information available to them as part of 
their duties might qualify as homeland security in-
formation, and how information available to them is 
relevant to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. 
‘‘(2) EVALUATIONS.—The Under Secretary 
shall, on an ongoing basis, evaluate how employees 
of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the in-
telligence components of the Department are uti-
lizing homeland security information and partici-
pating in the Department information sharing envi-
ronment.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended by adding 
at the end of the items relating to such subtitle the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 206. Homeland security information sharing.’’. 
(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INFORMA-
TION TECHNOLOGY NETWORK ARCHITECTURE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et 
seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 207. COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE. 
‘‘(a) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Chief Intelligence Officer, shall establish a 
comprehensive information technology network architec-
ture for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. 
‘‘(b) NETWORK MODEL.—The comprehensive infor-
mation technology network architecture established under 
subsection (a) shall, to the extent possible, incorporate the 
approaches, features, and functions of the network pro-
posed by the Markle Foundation in reports issued in Octo-
ber 2002 and December 2003, known as the System-wide 
Homeland Security Analysis and Resource Exchange 
(SHARE) Network. 
‘‘(c) COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE DEFINED.—the term ‘com-
prehensive information technology network architecture’ 
means an integrated framework for evolving or maintain-
ing existing information technology and acquiring new in-
formation technology to achieve the strategic goals and in-
formation resources management goals of the Office of In-
telligence and Analysis.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended 
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by adding at the end of the items relating to such 
subtitle the following: 
‘‘Sec. 207. Comprehensive information technology network architecture.’’. 
(3) REPORTS.— 
(A) REPORT
ON
IMPLEMENTATION
OF 
PLAN.—Not later than 360 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report containing a plan to imple-
ment the comprehensive information technology 
network architecture for the Office of Intel-
ligence and Analysis of the Department of 
Homeland Security required under section 205 
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as 
added by paragraph (1). Such report shall in-
clude the following: 
(i) Priorities for the development of 
the comprehensive information technology 
network architecture and a rationale for 
such priorities. 
(ii) An explanation of how the various 
components of the comprehensive informa-
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tion technology network architecture will 
work together and interconnect. 
(iii) A description of the technology 
challenges that the Office of Intelligence 
and Analysis will face in implementing the 
comprehensive information technology net-
work architecture. 
(iv) A description of technology op-
tions that are available or are in develop-
ment that may be incorporated into the 
comprehensive technology network archi-
tecture, the feasibility of incorporating 
such options, and the advantages and dis-
advantages of doing so. 
(v) An explanation of any security 
protections to be developed as part of the 
comprehensive information technology net-
work architecture. 
(vi) A description of any safeguards 
for civil liberties and privacy to be built 
into the comprehensive information tech-
nology network architecture. 
(vii) An operational best practices 
plan. 
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(B) PROGRESS REPORT.—Not later than 
180 days after the date on which the report is 
submitted under subparagraph (A), the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall submit to the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report on the progress of the Sec-
retary in developing the comprehensive informa-
tion technology network architecture required 
under section 205 of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002, as added by paragraph (1). 
(d) INTELLIGENCE COMPONENT DEFINED.—Section 
2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101) 
is further amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(18) The term ‘intelligence component of the 
Department’ means any directorate, agency, or ele-
ment of the Department that gathers, receives, ana-
lyzes, produces, or disseminates homeland security 
information except— 
‘‘(A) a directorate, agency, or element of 
the Department that is required to be main-
tained as a distinct entity under this Act; or 
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‘‘(B) any personnel security, physical secu-
rity, document security, or communications se-
curity program within any directorate, agency, 
or element of the Department.’’. 
Subtitle D—Homeland Security 
Information Sharing Partnerships 
SEC. 731. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Homeland Security 
Information Sharing Partnerships Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 732. STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL INFORMATION FU-
SION 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.) is further 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 208. STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL FUSION CENTER 
INITIATIVE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish a State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative 
to establish partnerships with State, local, and regional 
fusion centers. 
‘‘(b) DUTIES.—Through the State, Local, and Re-
gional Fusion Center Initiative, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) coordinate with the principal official of 
each State, local, or regional fusion center and the 
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official designated as the Homeland Security Advisor 
of the State; 
‘‘(2) provide Department operational and intel-
ligence advice and assistance to State, local, and re-
gional fusion centers; 
‘‘(3) support efforts to include State, local, and 
regional fusion centers into efforts to establish an 
information sharing environment (as defined under 
section 1016(a)(2) of the Intelligence Reform and 
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 
485(a)(2))) in accordance with all applicable laws 
and regulations; 
‘‘(4) conduct table-top and live training exer-
cises to regularly assess the capability of individual 
and regional networks of State, local, and regional 
fusion centers to integrate the efforts of such net-
works with the efforts of the Department; 
‘‘(5) coordinate with other relevant Federal en-
tities engaged in homeland security-related activities; 
‘‘(6) provide analytic and reporting advice and 
assistance to State, local, and regional fusion cen-
ters; 
‘‘(7) review homeland security information 
gathered by State, local, and regional fusion centers 
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and incorporate relevant information with homeland 
security information of the Department; 
‘‘(8) provide management assistance to State, 
local, and regional fusion centers; 
‘‘(9) serve as a point of contact to ensure the 
dissemination 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 exer-
cises conducted by the Department; and 
‘‘(13) carry out such other duties as the Sec-
retary determines are appropriate.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended by adding 
at the end of the items relating to such subtitle the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 208. State, Local, and Regional Information Fusion Center Initiative.’’. 
(c) REPORTS.— 
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(1) CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS.—Not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act 
and before the State, Local, and Regional Fusion 
Center Initiative under section 208 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002, as added by subsection (a), 
has been implemented, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
a report that contains a concept of operations for 
the Initiative, which shall include a privacy and civil 
liberties impact assessment. 
(2) PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES.— 
(A) REVIEW
OF
CONCEPT
OF
OPER-
ATIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date on which the report under paragraph (1) 
is submitted, the Privacy Officer of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security and the Officer for 
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security shall review the pri-
vacy and civil liberties implications of the Ini-
tiative and the concept of operations and report 
any concerns to the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity and the Under Secretary of Homeland 
Security for Intelligence and Analysis. The Sec-
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retary may not implement the Initiative until 
the Privacy Officer and the Officer for Civil 
Rights and Civil Liberties have certified that 
any privacy or civil liberties concerns have been 
addressed. 
(B) REVIEW OF PRIVACY IMPACT.—Under 
the authority of section 222(5) of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 142(5)), 
not later than one year after the date on which 
the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center 
Initiative is implemented, the Privacy Officer of 
the Department of Homeland Security, in con-
sultation with the Officer for Civil Rights and 
Civil Liberties of the Department of Homeland 
Security, shall submit to Congress, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, and the Under 
Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence 
and Analysis a report on the privacy and civil 
liberties impact of the Initiative. 
SEC. 733. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING 
FELLOWS PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—Subtitle A of 
title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
121 et seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
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‘‘SEC. 209. HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING 
FELLOWS PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and 
Analysis, shall establish a fellowship program in ac-
cordance with this section for the purpose of— 
‘‘(A) detailing State, local, and tribal law 
enforcement officers and intelligence analysts to 
the Department to participate in the work of 
the Office of Intelligence and Analysis in order 
to become familiar with— 
‘‘(i) the mission and capabilities of the 
Office of Intelligence and Analysis; and 
‘‘(ii) the role, programs, products, and 
personnel of the Office of Intelligence and 
Analysis; and 
‘‘(B) promoting information sharing be-
tween the Department and State, local, and 
tribal law enforcement officers and intelligence 
analysts by stationing such officers and ana-
lysts in order to— 
‘‘(i) serve as a point of contact in the 
Department to assist in the representation 
of State, local, and tribal homeland secu-
rity information needs; 
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