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PRIMARY CORE CAPABILITIES BEING ADDRESSED
<br />Intelligence and Information Sharing
<br />Cybersecurity
<br />ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED
<br />• Monitor, analyze, evaluate and prioritize contemporary conditions and threat developments for relevance,
<br />significance, validity and potential applications to law enforcement, emergency management, and first
<br />responder operations countering terrorism against the UASI Region, critical infrastructure, public services,
<br />and communities
<br />• Identify threats/risks from domestic violent extremists, international terror groups, self -radicalized
<br />individuals with aspirational-based violence, and significant organized crime elements--analyze/assess
<br />likelihood and impact within the region; develop briefings, visual aids, and written reports: THIRA, SPR, DHS
<br />National Critical Infrastructure Prioritization Program Data Call, Special Events Data Call
<br />• Gather, research, analyze, and amplify information from a spectrum of databases defining the Seattle -
<br />Tacoma -Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area (STB MSA); apply local/regional perspectives to threats/risks
<br />or hazard scenarios; assess and prioritize potential targets; collaborate with subject -matter -experts; and
<br />extract operational statistics, technical measurements, and threat capabilities/risk factors for UASI decision -
<br />makers
<br />• Contribute specialized analytical and technical skills to interpret, process, document, and disseminate
<br />emergent threat behaviors, risk factors, and indications/warning from federal, state, tribal, and local law
<br />enforcement, emergency management, first responder, public/private organizations and critical infrastructure
<br />resources
<br />• Reduce ambiguity, analyze incremental developments of an emergent threat situation or risk factor, and
<br />translate a shared frame of reference for situational 'awareness' into situational 'understanding'
<br />• Identify problems, conduct research, analyze, and write Special Event Threat Assessments to provide
<br />context and implications about an existing or emerging threat, risk, or hazard to a planned UASI regional
<br />event
<br />Investment #5 - Seattle UASI NPA: Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE)
<br />Per the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "domestic violent extremists are US -based actors who
<br />conduct or threaten activities that are dangerous to human life in violation of the criminal laws of the United
<br />States or any state; appearing to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; and influence the
<br />policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by mass
<br />destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." Foreign terrorist organizations still intend to attack the Homeland
<br />within and from beyond our borders. However, the primary terrorist threat inside the United States stems
<br />from lone offenders and small cells of individuals, including domestic violent extremists and foreign terrorist -
<br />inspired Homegrown Violent Extremists. They exploit social media platforms and other technologies to
<br />spread violent extremist ideologies that encourage violence and influence action within the United States.
<br />Enhancing local threat assessment and management capabilities to reduce the prevalence of terrorism and
<br />targeted violence through increased situational awareness is a priority. Timely and actionable information is
<br />needed, and the Seattle Urban Area (UA) has identified several key projects to enhance the NPA of
<br />Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) addressing the core capabilities of Interdiction and Disruption and
<br />Screening, Search, and Detection. Current capabilities are insufficient.
<br />As communicated in the 2020 UASI SPR, capability gaps have been identified in:
<br />- Interdiction and Disruption
<br />(1) Law Enforcement [LE] across the Seattle UASI Region needs situational awareness systems and
<br />technology. There is a specific need for mobile technology that would support complex missions by providing
<br />non -radio communication methods and geospatial awareness of assets.
<br />(2) [There is a need for situational awareness using] thermal imagery technology.
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