HSIN is Crucial Tool for Fusion Center during Iowa
State Fair
As
more than one million people streamed into the 2013 Iowa State Fair from August
8-18, state law enforcement officials relied on HSIN for information sharing
and coordination. “We used HSIN to communicate all day, every day, to
make sure the Iowa State Fair was safe and secure,” said Justin Parker, a
Senior Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Iowa Division of Intelligence and
Fusion Center. Parker, a member of the HSIN State & Local Intelligence
Community (SLIC) Executive Board, uses HSIN daily and said he regularly has at
least 20 trusted partners in the Iowa intelligence community on HSIN. Most
recently, the Iowa Fusion Center used HSIN in an inmate-escape/hostage
situation and a double abduction case. “If
you use HSIN every day, when an incident occurs, you’ll be ready to use it to
its full potential,” advised Parker. If you have questions or would like
more information about how Parker and his team use HSIN, you may email Justin Parker or contact HSINOutreach@hq.dhs.gov.
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HSIN Highlighted in ISE Annual Report to Congress
Recently, HSIN received
some additional recognition in the 2013 Annual Report to Congress from the
Federal Information Sharing Environment (ISE). The report highlighted
everything HSIN does best: enabling interagency collaboration, optimizing
mission effectiveness, sharing services and simplifying access to key
information and analytics. You can access the entire report at http://ise.gov/annual-report/.
RSVP Today! Sept 26
HSIN R3 Launch Celebration
With just a little over two weeks to go, it’s time
to reserve your in-person or virtual attendance for the HSIN
R3 Launch Celebration! Please RSVP to sarah.schwettman@hq.dhs.gov noting an in-person or virtual attendance
preference. Light refreshments – including celebration cake – will be served.
When: September 26, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. EST
Where: Crystal City, Virginia and via HSIN Connect
Who: All are WELCOME!
Speakers include:
- Richard
Chavez, Director, DHS Office of Operations Coordination and Planning
- Margie
Graves, Acting Chief Information Officer, DHS Office of Chief Information
Officer
- Bill
Tarry, Principal Deputy Under Secretary, DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- Caitlin
A. Durkovich, Assistant Secretary for DHS Infrastructure Protection National
Protection and Programs Directorate
- Charles
Werner, Chief of Charlottesville, VA, Fire Department
-
Donna Roy, HSIN Program
Director
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Training Completion Statistics
As a reminder, the
current HSIN R3 training curriculum includes a variety of courses including:
End User, Nomination and Validation, Site Administrator and Manual Identity
Validator (MIV) certification. Below
are the numbers for all HSIN R3 training programs through September 6, 2013.
Thanks to everyone for their participation and commitment to continued
learning!
- # of users completed Nomination/Validation (NomVal)
Training: 187
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# of users completed End User Training: 1190 (this course is no longer offered via instructor-led
only via CBT)
- # of users completed Site Admin Training: 164
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# of users completed End User (CBT): 165
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# of users completed MIV Training: 242
HSIN Community: Appearing at a Location Near You!
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Sept 17: Operational Best Practices of
HSIN Connect Seminar, via HSIN Connect – Mission Advocate Manager Katherine
Mullins
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Sept 17-18: Washington State Fusion
Center Analyst Conference, Vancouver, WA – Mission Advocate Michael Zagyva
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Sept 23: Oregon Criminal Justice
Information Services (CJIS) User Workshop, Seaside, OR – Mission Advocate
Michael Zagyva
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Sept 24: Big Data Symposium, Washington
DC – HSIN Program Director Donna Roy
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Sept 26: HSIN R3 Launch Celebration,
Arlington, VA – HSIN Program Director Donna Roy
Have an event you’ll be
going to and want to share news about HSIN? Let us know and we’ll get the word
out and/or share how it went! Please email us at HSIN.Outreach@hq.dhs.gov.
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