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The bill improves timely, two‑way intelligence support to state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners—strengthening regional threat detection and coordination—but raises substantial privacy risks and creates budget and capacity trade‑offs without guaranteed funding or new oversight.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and their communities will receive faster, prioritized, actionable intelligence and support to identify and respond to emerging threats.
Local and state partners (and their non‑federal partners) can both send tips and receive actionable intelligence faster due to improved two‑way information sharing.
Regional fusion centers will have stronger engagement and coordination, improving regional threat analysis and multi‑agency responses.
Individuals, communities (including racial and ethnic minorities), businesses, nonprofits, and local governments face increased privacy and civil‑liberties risks from more proactive intelligence collection, greater fusion of law‑enforcement and intelligence data, and expanded sharing with fusion centers and the private sector.
Federal intelligence capabilities and national‑level analytic capacity could be weakened if DHS shifts priorities or personnel to support forward‑deployed, field‑focused capabilities.
Implementing and sustaining forward‑deployed capabilities and realignment may require additional DHS resources or reorganization, increasing costs for taxpayers or forcing budgetary tradeoffs away from other programs.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS I&A to prioritize forward-deployed, two-way intelligence support to state, local, Tribal, territorial governments and private partners and report on implementation within 180 days.
Directs the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) to realign its operational mission so that providing timely, two-way intelligence support to State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and private-sector partners is prioritized on par with support to the broader U.S. intelligence community. It requires I&A to deploy forward intelligence capabilities, maintain robust engagement with fusion centers, facilitate bidirectional information sharing, and ensure support to Department leadership does not crowd out external partner support. Requires the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis to report to designated House and Senate committees within 180 days of enactment describing implementation steps, two-way sharing progress, evaluation metrics, and any resource or organizational changes needed to sustain the realignment. The bill clarifies it does not change I&A’s watchlisting functions.
Introduced February 9, 2026 by August Pfluger · Last progress February 9, 2026