Task One:

You are a vice president of a for-profit, private intelligence company. You have been approached by the mayor of a large city to provide intelligence services, including intelligence collectors and analysts, to a fusion center under the direction of the local police department.

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in a research paper of 900–1,200 words:
  • Identify and describe 3–5 technologies that might be available at the fusion center to which the private intelligence company may not have had prior access.
    • Examples include the following:
      • Data mining
      • Advanced databases
      • Suspicious activity reporting (SAR)
      • Information exchange packages
      • Information sharing environment (ISE)
      • Geographic information systems (GIS)
    • What problems exist with the use of the selected technologies? Explain.
  • Will equipment (computers, etc.) be supplied by the fusion center? Explain.
  • What are the legal issues that could apply to the use of federal databases used by a private entity?
    • Consider liability, authority and responsibility, and duties.
  • Will the private intelligence personnel report to their immediate employer or representatives of the police department? Why?
    • To whom should all reports be addressed? Explain.
  • Will copies be available to the private intelligence company for its records? Why or why not?
  • Who will be responsible for financing and payment of invoices? Explain.
  • What kinds of communications technology will private intelligence collectors and analysts use to communicate with the other fusion center stakeholders? Explain.
    • Would they have access to secure federal channels or networks? Why or why not?
    • Compile your responses into the final report, and submit the file to your instructor. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style. Task 2: Developing a research plan and executing it in its entirety is a long and comprehensive process, but you have learned all of the necessary fundamentals for this during this term. Last week, your assignment was to produce a number of elements plus an outline in preparation for delivering a research plan. You were to locate and review at least 3 external sources, craft research question(s), create one or more hypotheses, determine what research approach and methods you would employ, and forecast what form your research and findings would be in at the end of your study. You submitted this last week and should have received a critiqued version from the instructor. Assignment Guidelines
      • Revise your Week 4 Key Assignment according to instructor and peer feedback.
      • Next, address the following for your final Key Assignment draft:

      Final Key Assignment Draft

      • For your final assignment, you will use the research plan outline you developed last week. Assemble all of the components, and using the tenets you learned this week for writing a refined and integrated paper, write your complete research plan in narrative style. This final product should be at least 1,500–1,750 words.
      • In your narrative at a minimum, you should do the following:
        • Seamlessly integrate all elements of the research plan.
        • Extensively review the external resources you selected, and identify their relevance for studying your topic.
        • Explain in detail the quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods you plan to employ and what findings you expect these to produce (the type not the specific results). Instructor Feedback: The research questions were not strong. Where is the summarization for your bibilographic references? Each book/study should be summarized. No Hypotheses. Variables were not fully operationalized. What research instruments will be used?