Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress

Citation
John Rollins, Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress (CRS Report RL34070) (Jan. 18, 2008) (full-text).

Overview
This report includes over 30 options for congressional consideration to clarify and potentially enhance the federal government’s relationship with fusion centers. One of the central options is the potential drafting of a formal national fusion center strategy that would outline, among other elements, the federal government’s clear expectations of fusion centers, its position on sustainment funding, metrics for assessing fusion center performance, and definition of what constitutes a “mature” fusion center.