Running Head: Knowledge Management Technologies
Unit 5 - Individual Project
Assignment Description
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?