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Standard Management Analysis Reporting Tool (SMART)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) developed the Standard Management Analysis Reporting Tool (SMART) to create and compile reports pertaining to immigrant and nonimmigrant benefits. SMART creates reports by temporarily retrieving information from USCIS source systems, which have either aggregate or individual data. USCIS conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to discuss the privacy risks and mitigations associated with replicating and temporarily retaining personally identifiable information (PII) in SMART to create reports.
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Coordinating Federal Support for Fusion Centers
Fusion centers are state- and locally owned and operated entities that play a vital role in improving the nation’s ability to safeguard the Homeland. They serve as focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information among federal, state, local, tribal, territorial (SLTT), and private sector partners and represent an essential element of our distributed homeland security and counterterrorism architecture.
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DHS/FEMA/PIA-020 - Web-IFMIS (Integrated Financial Management Information System)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mission Support Bureau (MSB), Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) operates the Web Integrated Financial Management Information System (Web-IFMIS), the official accounting and financial system used for internal and external financial reporting.
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DHS/FEMA/PIA-031-Authentication and Provisioning Services (APS)
DHS/FEMA/PIA-031-Authentication and Provisioning Services (APS)
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DHS/FEMA/PIA-032-Deployment Programs
DHS/FEMA/PIA-032-Deployment Programs
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DHS/FEMA/PIA-033-Deployment Qualifications Program
DHS/FEMA/PIA-033-Deployment Qualifications Program
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Customer Relationship Interface System (CRIS) Update
The Customer Relationship Interface System (CRIS) provides U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) customers access to the status of their applications and petitions for immigration benefits and processing time information. USCIS is updating this privacy impact assessment PIA to provide notice regarding e-Request, a new service that allows customers to create a service request via www.uscis.gov, and to update the description of Case Status Service Online (CSSO). USCIS is publishing this update because these modifications affect the collection, use, and storage of personally identifiable information (PII).
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DHS/USSS/PIA-002 USSS Protective Information eXchange
The Secret Service created the Targeted Violence Information Sharing System (TAVISS) to conduct name checks and determine whether a subject is of protective interest to any agency within the TAVISS network. The Secret Service conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because TAVISS contains personally identifiable information (PII) regarding subjects of protective interest to the Secret Service and participating agencies in the network.
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DHS/USSS/PIA-003 – Protective Threat Management System (PTMS)
The Secret Service created and uses the Protective Research Information System Management (PRISM-ID) system to record information that assists the agency in meeting its protective mission, including the protection of the president, vice president, their immediate families, former presidents and first ladies, major candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, foreign heads of state visiting the United States, and other individuals authorized to receive Secret Service protection. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was conducted because PRISM-ID collects personally identifiable information (PII).
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HSAAC Overview
An overview of the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC), its members, subcommittees, and taskings.