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You are an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security assigned to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS-OIA). You are currently working in the Special Events Unit, and you are responsible for producing an intelligence assessment outlining potential threats to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting that is to take place in New York City later this year. To successfully complete this assessment, you must work closely with your federal partners in the U.S. intelligence community (horizontal integration) as well as your partners within the state, local, and international communities (vertical integration).

Your supervisor has given you a list of intelligence requirements pertaining to the upcoming event and has asked you to draft an intelligence collection plan based on those requirements.  

The intelligence requirements are as follows:

• What individuals or groups are planning terrorist acts directed at the UNGA meeting in New York?
• What individuals, groups, or delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by domestic or international terrorists?
• What groups or individuals associated with criminal or terrorist activities are active in the New York area of operations?
• Which foreign intelligence service will attempt to use the UNGA meeting in New York as an intelligence collection opportunity?
• Which delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by foreign intelligence services?

For this assignment, you must write an intelligence collection plan of 1,000–1,250 words detailing how DHS-OIA will use horizontal and vertical integration to successfully address these requirements and identify any potential intelligence gaps. In addition, you must discuss each requirement individually and outline which sources and methods will be used against that particular requirement and how you plan to address gaps if necessary. This assignment will require additional outside research, and you should document your research accordingly.

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in an intelligence collection plan of 1,000–1,250 words:
  • How will the DHS-OIA use horizontal and vertical integration to successfully address the above requirements? Identify any potential intelligence gaps.
    • What are 5 agencies involved in horizontal integration? Describe and summarize them.
      • What roles does each agency play throughout the overall intelligence cycle? Explain.
        • How will the agencies be used to address the above requirements? Explain.
    • What types of local and state agencies are involved in vertical integration? Describe and summarize them.
      • What role does each type of agency play throughout the overall intelligence cycle? Explain.
        • How will the agencies be used to address the above requirements? Explain.
    • How can cooperation with international agencies facilitate the processes of the Requirements phase? Explain.
  • For each of the 5 requirements listed in the assignment description, address the following:
    • Which sources and methods will be used against the particular requirement? Explain.
    • If necessary, how would you plan to address intelligence gaps? Explain.
• Compile your responses in the final intelligence collection plan, and submit the file to your instructor.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Phase Resources:

	Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Official Web site of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
	Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Official Web site of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Contains information on types of disasters, planning, recovery, rebuilding, and federal assistance.
	Horizontal Integration Challenges Intelligence Planners In the search field, search for Horizontal Integration Challenges Intelligence Planners and click on the result with the same title. This article addresses the U.S. Intelligence Community and the challenges of horizontal integration.
	How Intelligence-Sharing With Congress Has Evolved In the search field, search for How Intelligence-Sharing With Congress Has Evolved and then click on the result with the same title. This is an article that addresses how intelligence sharing with congress had evolved from 1947 through the 1990s. If the search comes up in error, type the article name into any major search engine to locate the article on cia.gov.
	IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Papers A collection of articles provided by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) on homeland security technologies.
	Intelligence.gov: About the Intelligence Community Intelligence.gov is a site that provides information about the Intelligence Community (IC) and the organizations that effectively make up the IC. Click: About the Intelligence Community.
	Operations Security: Intelligence Threat Handbook Towards the bottom of the page, click on the Operations Security INTELLIGENCE THREAT HANDBOOK link. This handbook contains a large amount of information on intelligence collection processes, sources, and activities.
	The Guiding of Intelligence Collection In the search field, search for The Guiding of Intelligence Collection and then click on the result with the same title. This is an article that addresses evaluates intelligence collection operations, activities, and various issues. If the search comes up in error, type the article name into any major search engine to locate the article on cia.gov.
	The Intelligence Community: Is It Broken? How To Fix It? In the search field, search for The Intelligence Community: Is It Broken? How To Fix It? and then click on the result with the same title. This is an article that addresses the problems within the U.S. intelligence community and how they might be remedied. If the search comes up in error, type the article name into any major search engine to locate the article on cia.gov.