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Fusion Centers Suffer Information Overload

Alice Lipowicz writes on Washington Technology:

Dozens of state and local intelligence fusion centers operating nationwide are having difficulties juggling the multiple information systems that provide them with data, according to a new report [.pdf] from the Government Accountability Office.

Forty-three fusion centers were operational as of September and another 15 are in development. They have been created since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a goal of advancing information-sharing among law enforcement authorities to improve domestic counterterrorism intelligence.

The centers are receiving federal assistance from the Homeland Security and Justice departments and from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They are being incorporated into the national Information-Sharing Environment established by Congress in the intelligence reform legislation.

But even with federal aid, the centers are having a hard time managing the inflows of data, the report said.

posted by Fergie @ 4/18/2008 01:57:00 PM