Department of Homeland Security
The essential function of IAIP (the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, IAIP, Directorate) is mapping the vulnerabilities of the nation's critical infrastructure against a comprehensive analysis of intelligence and public source information. This function is unique to the federal government and fundamental to the nation's ability to better protect itself from terrorist attack.
Intelligence Responsibilities
Within IAIP, the Office of Information Analysis (IA) performs the intelligence activities carried out within DHS. IA responsibilities are as follows:
- Monitor, assess, and coordinate indications and warnings in support of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who by Executive Order is responsible for implementing the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS).
- Access all information, assessments, analysis, and unevaluated intelligence relating to terrorist threats to the homeland.
- Maintain real time intelligence connectivity to support situational awareness during implementation of protective measures and incident management.
- Access all information, assessments, analysis, and unevaluated intelligence relating to terrorist threats to the homeland.
- Assess the scope of terrorist threats to the homeland in order to understand such threats in light of actual and potential vulnerabilities of the homeland.
- Integrate threat information and analyses with vulnerability assessments from the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) in order to identify priorities for protective and support measures by DHS, other agencies of the Federal Government, State and local government agencies and authorities, the private sector and other entities.
- Respond to requirements from the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection for information analysis and intelligence requirements.
- Integrate threat information and analyses with vulnerability assessments from the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) in order to identify priorities for protective and support measures by DHS, other agencies of the Federal Government, State and local government agencies and authorities, the private sector and other entities.
- Gather and integrate terrorist-related information from DHS component agencies, State and local government agencies and authorities, and private sector terrorist-related reporting/information; process requests for information (RFI) from these component agencies, State and local government agencies and authorities and private sector entities.
- Disseminate threat information, intelligence and responses to RFI's to DHS component agencies, State and local government agencies and authorities and private sector entities.
IAIP and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center
The roles and functions of IAIP and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) are complementary and collaborative and enhance the national effort to detect, disrupt, and prevent terrorism. TTIC makes full use of all terrorist threat-related information and expertise available to the US Government and provides comprehensive all-source threat analysis to the President, to DHS, and to other Federal agencies. IAIP provides intelligence analysts to the TTIC, who participate with analysts from other Federal agencies in analyzing this all-source terrorist information. IAIP also provides TTIC with threat information gathered and integrated from DHS component agencies, State and local government agencies and authorities and private sector entities.
IAIP integrates all-source threat information and analysis received from TTIC and other agencies of the Intelligence Community with its own vulnerability assessments to provide tailored threat assessments, including priorities for protective and support measures to other agencies of the Federal Government, State and local government agencies and authorities, and private sector entities. Finally, IAIP administers the Homeland Security Advisory System to include exercising primary responsibility for public advisories.
Together, DHS's IAIP and the TTIC fulfill all of the requirements called for in sections 201 and 202 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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