Field Integration of Homeland Intelligence Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Field Integration of Homeland Intelligence Act states congressional findings favoring a field-centric DHS intelligence model and requires the Department to implement one within two years. The Office of Intelligence and Analysis must transition its primary analytic functions from a centralized headquarters model to a decentralized structure aligned with the ten FEMA regions.
Every fusion center must receive at least one I&A Intelligence Officer and one separate Intelligence Analyst. Every joint or interagency task force must receive at least one Intelligence Officer as its primary I&A liaison. The same person cannot fill both required fusion-center roles. DHS may also place staff at other strategic locations.
Before field service, assigned personnel must receive training on civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, the Privacy Act, regulations, and information practices. Fusion centers provide input on assignments. A fusion-center term lasts three years and may be extended up to two, with rotations staggered so an I&A representative remains. Field personnel report operationally to the regional I&A director and coordinate with FEMA, CISA, ICE, CBP, and other DHS leads.
Within 180 days, I&A must give Congress a staffing and resource plan covering reassignment, retained headquarters roles, rotations, hiring, training, and realignment. DHS must preserve headquarters resources justified by that plan. A one-year progress report is followed by annual impact, integration, efficiency, and training reports for five years.
Who Benefits and How
Fusion centers, state and local agencies, tribal and territorial partners, and interagency task forces gain dedicated federal analysts and real-time support. Regional DHS components may coordinate intelligence faster. Congress gains implementation and performance data, while communities gain required rights and privacy training for deployed personnel.
Who Bears the Burden and How
I&A headquarters staff may be reassigned or required to rotate, and DHS must fund field offices, travel, training, hiring, and reporting. Regional directors and fusion centers must supervise and integrate new personnel. Concentrating intelligence sharing at local nodes may increase privacy, civil-liberties, and mission-creep risks despite training. Headquarters capacity may decline if the staffing plan misjudges functions that need central expertise.
Key Provisions
- Requires field decentralization within two years.
- Assigns separate Intelligence Officers and Analysts to every fusion center.
- Assigns Intelligence Officers to joint or interagency task forces.
- Prohibits one person from filling both fusion-center roles.
- Requires civil-rights, civil-liberties, and privacy training.
- Establishes three-year assignments with limited extensions.
- Requires staggered rotations to maintain continuous representation.
- Requires a staffing and resource plan within 180 days.
- Preserves justified headquarters functions under the plan.
- Requires progress and annual impact reports to Congress.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires DHS Intelligence and Analysis within two years to decentralize primary analytic functions into ten FEMA regions, staff every fusion center and joint task force with specified field personnel, train them on rights and privacy, manage rotations and regional reporting lines, and submit implementation plans and annual reports.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security Intelligence, Fusion Centers, Federal Regional Staffing, Civil Liberties Training, Intelligence Oversight
Primary Purpose
Requires DHS Intelligence and Analysis within two years to decentralize primary analytic functions into ten FEMA regions, staff every fusion center and joint task force with specified field personnel, train them on rights and privacy, manage rotations and regional reporting lines, and submit implementation plans and annual reports.
Policy Domains
Sections 2 and 3 findings, regional staffing, training, rotations, and reports
Identified Gains
- State fusion centers receiving I&A officers
- Local fusion centers receiving I&A analysts
- Tribal homeland-security partners
- Territorial homeland-security partners
- Joint task forces receiving intelligence liaisons
- Regional DHS components
- Congressional intelligence oversight committees
Identified Costs
- I&A headquarters staff facing reassignment
- DHS accounts funding field placements
- Regional directors supervising added personnel
- Fusion centers integrating federal staff
- I&A training administrators
- DHS reporting staff
- Individuals affected by expanded intelligence sharing
- Privacy advocates monitoring fusion centers
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Introduced in House
Mr. Pfluger introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
CISA regional offices, Congressional intelligence oversight committees, DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Positive-direction: Congressional intelligence oversight committees, Regional DHS component leads, Territorial homeland-security partners, Tribal homeland-security partners
Negative-direction: DHS field-placement accounts, DHS implementation-report staff, Headquarters analytic-support programs, I&A civil-liberties trainers, I&A headquarters staff facing reassignment, I&A regional directors
Fusion-center personnel managers, Local fusion centers receiving I&A analysts, Local homeland-security partners
Positive-direction: Local fusion centers receiving I&A analysts, State fusion centers receiving I&A officers
Negative-direction: Fusion-center personnel managers
Interagency task forces, Joint task forces receiving I&A liaisons
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "analyst"
- → I&A Intelligence Analyst assigned to a fusion center
- "officer"
- → I&A Intelligence Officer assigned to the field
- "overseer"
- → Congressional intelligence or homeland-security committee
- "implementer"
- → DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- "field_partner"
- → State or local fusion center
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Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A decentralized I&A structure placing primary analytic personnel in the ten FEMA regions and partner sites.
Three-year fusion-center assignments, extendable by up to two years, with headquarters rotation and nonconcurrent departures.
At least one separate Intelligence Officer and Intelligence Analyst assigned to every fusion center.
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