The initial Progress Assignment is designed to deepen your understanding of interagency operations within the United States Intelligence Community or IC. Please answer the following research question: The ability for agencies within the Intelligence Community to share information/intelligence received a huge boost when Fusion Centers were developed. However, there are still obstacles with sharing information between federal agencies, between federal agencies and state/local law enforcement, and between the military and law enforcement. In a 4 page/double spaced essay review the obstacles that currently derail interagency intelligence sharing. conclude your essay with your recommendations on how this obstacle should be addressed. Resources and references beyond the in-class list must be used. Use Word, 12pt New Times Roman. No pictures or graphs should be included your within your essay. Also please consult the Turabian Style Guide for the correct format for your citation. You may use either Turabian Bibliography format or Turabian References format. Just be consistent!! You can access the Quick Guide here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html The accuracy or your citations is gradable, as is grammar and clarity of writing.

The initial Progress Assignment is designed to deepen your understanding of interagency operations within the United States Intelligence Community or IC.

Please answer the following research question: The ability for agencies within the Intelligence Community to share information/intelligence received a huge boost when Fusion Centers were developed. However, there are still obstacles with sharing information between federal agencies, between federal agencies and state/local law enforcement, and between the military and law enforcement. In a 4 page/double spaced essay review the obstacles that currently derail interagency intelligence sharing. conclude your essay with your recommendations on how this obstacle should be addressed. Resources and references beyond the in-class list must be used.

Use Word, 12pt New Times Roman. No pictures or graphs should be included your within your essay.

Also please consult the Turabian Style Guide for the correct format for your citation. You may use either Turabian Bibliography format or Turabian References format. Just be consistent!! You can access the Quick Guide here:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html

The accuracy or your citations is gradable, as is grammar and clarity of writing.