Common use of Investment Justification Clause in Contracts

Investment Justification. As the State Administering Agency, the Ohio EMA expects our State, local and private partners to be familiar with the state preparedness architecture and to incorporate elements of this architecture into their counter-terrorism planning, operations and capability-building efforts. Successful regional collaboration allows for a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach to building capabilities, spreading costs, and mitigating risk across geographic areas. As federal homeland security funds become more competitive, agencies should be diligently working with their neighboring and regional jurisdictions to better coordinate homeland security expenditures and planning efforts to avoid duplicative or inconsistent investments. Thus, agencies must determine what levels of preparedness they can realistically develop and sustain over the long-term without continued reliance on federal funding. To accomplish this, agencies should already be using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), State Preparedness Report (SPR), and Core Capabilities List to review their current readiness. The Ohio Homeland Security Strategic Plan identifies the goals and objectives needed to address and meet Ohio’s priorities. Each Project must explain how the proposed activity will support the applicant’s efforts to: • Prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism; • Prepare for all hazards and threats, while explaining the nexus to terrorism preparedness; • Protect citizens, residents, visitors, and assets against the greatest threats and hazards, relating to acts of terrorism; and/or • Respond quickly to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs in the aftermath of an act of terrorism or other catastrophic incident. Based upon ongoing intelligence analysis, capability review and assessment, Ohio will continue to focus available grant funding on investments to build risk-based capabilities where a nexus to terrorism exists. Ohio’s FY2018 regional LE SHSP terrorism prevention investment area is as follows:

Investment Justification. As the State Administering Agency, the Ohio EMA expects our State, local and private partners to be familiar with the state preparedness architecture and to incorporate elements of this architecture into their counter-terrorism planning, operations and capability-building efforts. Successful regional collaboration allows for a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach to building capabilities, spreading costs, and mitigating risk across geographic areas. As federal homeland security funds become more competitive, agencies should be diligently working with their neighboring and regional jurisdictions to better coordinate homeland security expenditures and planning efforts to avoid duplicative or inconsistent investments. Thus, agencies must determine what levels of preparedness they can realistically develop and sustain over the long-term without continued reliance on federal funding. To accomplish this, agencies should already be using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), State Stakeholder Preparedness Report Review (SPR), and Core Capabilities List to review their current readiness. The Ohio Homeland Security Strategic Plan identifies the goals and objectives needed to address and meet Ohio’s priorities. Each Project must explain how the proposed activity will support the applicant’s efforts to: • Prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism; • Prepare for all hazards and threats, while explaining the nexus to terrorism preparedness; • Protect citizens, residents, visitors, and assets against the greatest threats and hazards, relating to acts of terrorism; and/or • Respond quickly to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs in the aftermath of an act of terrorism or other catastrophic incident. Based upon ongoing intelligence analysis, capability review and assessment, Ohio will continue to focus available grant funding on investments to build risk-based capabilities where a nexus to terrorism exists. Ohio’s FY2018 regional FY2021 Regional SHSP-LE SHSP terrorism prevention investment area is as follows:: Enhance Intelligence Fusion and Information Sharing Capabilities The focus for Ohio’s FY2021 SHSP-LE continues to be support for the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), and specifically, the continued enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to include support for implementation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI). These centers provide an important linkage between local, State, tribal, regional, and Federal partners, as well as private industry, and as part of a national information sharing capability must establish and maintain the capacity to receive threat-related information, understand its implications locally and further disseminate it to other local, State, tribal, and private sector entities. At the same time, State and Major Urban Area fusion centers need to be able to aggregate, blend, and analyze information gathered from local law enforcement and share that information with Federal authorities. Allowable expenditures of funding include support for equipment and consultation necessary to enable connection to information sharing systems such as the National Data Exchange (NDex), the Nationwide SAR Initiative, and supporting program areas. Fusion centers are a critical component of our State’s distributed homeland security and counterterrorism architecture. They provide grassroots intelligence and analytic capabilities within the state and local jurisdictions (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers). To that end, the SHSP-LE will continue to support designated state and major Urban Area centers (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fusion- center-locations-and-contact-information) and the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE). Participating in the Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) enables fusion centers to receive and analyze suspicious activity reporting from frontline public safety personnel, the private sector, and the public, and ensure the sharing of SAR with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) for further investigation. In support of this strategic vision, the U.S. DHS/FEMA requires designated State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to participate in an annual assessment of their achievement of Critical Operational Capabilities (COCs) and Enabling Capabilities (ECs). Maturation of the Ohio Fusion Center Network continues to be a high priority for the FY2021 SHSP-LE. Regions with fusion centers receiving SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based on compliance with the guidance and requirements for the National Network as set forth by DHS Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program. • FY 2021 Fusion Center Grant requirements are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/homeland- security-grant-program-hsgp. • DHS/FEMA approved analyst courses that meet the grant requirement are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fema-approved-intelligence-analyst-training-courses. Through the Performance Progress Report (SF-PPR), fusion centers will report on the achievement of capabilities and compliance with measurement requirements within the Maturation and Enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers priority through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program managed by DHS I&A and reported to FEMA. (This process is subject to change by U.S. DHS I&A) In support of these efforts, Ohio EMA and Homeland Security (OHS) are encouraging the Regional/Major Urban Area fusion centers to prioritize the allocation of LE SHSP-XX xxxxx funding to meet and maintain identified levels baseline capabilities, as outlined in the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative’s (Global) Baseline Capabilities for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers. Additionally, fusion centers should assess their achievement of the baseline capabilities, so they may identify any resulting gaps. Requested LE SHSP-LE grants funds should then be prioritized to target and address these gaps, and the results of this gap analysis should be included in grant applications for any fusion center funding. All efforts should be made to address gaps that are identified by taking advantage of the service deliveries made available through the joint US DHS and Department of Justice Fusion (DOJ) Process Technical Assistance Program. All fusion center employees are expected to complete the online 28 CFR Part 23 certification training made available through this program. FY2021 SHSP-XX xxxxx funds may not be used to support fusion center-related initiatives unless the fusion center is able to certify that privacy and civil rights/civil liberties (CR/CL) protections are in place that are determined to be at least as comprehensive as the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Privacy Guidelines by the ISE Privacy Guidelines Committee (PGC) within 6 months of the award date on this FY2021 award. If these protections have not been submitted for review and on file with the ISE PGC, LE SHSP-LE grants funds may only be leveraged to support the development and/or completion of the fusion center’s privacy protections requirements. In order to effectively measure implementation of this priority, designated Major Urban Area fusion centers leveraging SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based upon compliance with the following set of requirements. These requirements are tracked for all primary or recognized fusion centers through the 2021 Fusion Center Assessment.

Investment Justification. As the State Administering Agency, the Ohio EMA expects our State, local and private partners to be familiar with the state preparedness architecture and to incorporate elements of this architecture into their counter-terrorism planning, operations and capability-building efforts. Successful regional collaboration allows for a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach to building capabilities, spreading costs, and mitigating risk across geographic areas. As federal homeland security funds become more competitive, agencies should be diligently working with their neighboring and regional jurisdictions to better coordinate homeland security expenditures and planning efforts to avoid duplicative or inconsistent investments. Thus, agencies must determine what levels of preparedness they can realistically develop and sustain over the long-term without continued reliance on federal funding. To accomplish this, agencies should already be using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), State Stakeholder Preparedness Report Review (SPR), and Core Capabilities List to review their current readiness. The Ohio Homeland Security Strategic Plan identifies the goals and objectives needed to address and meet Ohio’s priorities. Each Project must explain how the proposed activity will support the applicant’s efforts to: •  Prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism; •  Prepare for all hazards and threats, while explaining the nexus to terrorism preparedness; •  Protect citizens, residents, visitors, and assets against the greatest threats and hazards, relating to acts of terrorism; and/or •  Respond quickly to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs in the aftermath of an act of terrorism or other catastrophic incident. Based upon ongoing intelligence analysis, capability review and assessment, Ohio will continue to focus available grant funding on investments to build risk-based capabilities where a nexus to terrorism exists. Ohio’s FY2018 regional FY2019 Regional SHSP-LE SHSP terrorism prevention investment area is as follows:: Enhance Intelligence Fusion and Information Sharing Capabilities The focus for Ohio’s FY2019 SHSP-LE continues to be support for the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), and specifically, the continued enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to include support for implementation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI). These centers provide an important linkage between local, State, tribal, regional, and Federal partners, as well as private industry, and as part of a national information sharing capability must establish and maintain the capacity to receive threat-related information, understand its implications locally and further disseminate it to other local, State, tribal, and private sector entities. At the same time, State and Major Urban Area fusion centers need to be able to aggregate, blend, and analyze information gathered from local law enforcement and share that information with Federal authorities. Allowable expenditures of funding include support for equipment and consultation necessary to enable connection to information sharing systems such as the National Data Exchange (NDex), the Nationwide SAR Initiative, and supporting program areas. Fusion centers are a critical component of our State’s distributed homeland security and counterterrorism architecture. They provide grassroots intelligence and analytic capabilities within the state and local jurisdictions (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers). To that end, the SHSP-LE will continue to support designated state and major Urban Area centers (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fusion- center-locations-and-contact-information) and the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE). Participating in the Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) enables fusion centers to receive and analyze suspicious activity reporting from frontline public safety personnel, the private sector, and the public, and ensure the sharing of SAR with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) for further investigation. In support of this strategic vision, the U.S. DHS/FEMA requires designated State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to participate in an annual assessment of their achievement of Critical Operational Capabilities (COCs) and Enabling Capabilities (ECs). Maturation of the Ohio Fusion Center Network continues to be a high priority for the FY2019 SHSP-LE. Regions with fusion centers receiving SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based on compliance with the guidance and requirements for the National Network as set forth by DHS Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program.  FY 2019 Fusion Center Grant requirements are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/homeland- security-grant-program-hsgp.  DHS/FEMA approved analyst courses that meet the grant requirement are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fema-approved-intelligence-analyst-training-courses. Through the Performance Progress Report (SF-PPR), fusion centers will report on the achievement of capabilities and compliance with measurement requirements within the Maturation and Enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers priority through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program managed by DHS I&A and reported to FEMA. (This process is subject to change by U.S. DHS I&A) In support of these efforts, Ohio EMA and Homeland Security (OHS) are encouraging the Regional/Major Urban Area fusion centers to prioritize the allocation of LE SHSP-XX xxxxx funding to meet and maintain identified levels baseline capabilities, as outlined in the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative’s (Global) Baseline Capabilities for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers. Additionally, fusion centers should assess their achievement of the baseline capabilities, so they may identify any resulting gaps. Requested LE SHSP-LE grants funds should then be prioritized to target and address these gaps, and the results of this gap analysis should be included in grant applications for any fusion center funding. All efforts should be made to address gaps that are identified by taking advantage of the service deliveries made available through the joint US DHS and Department of Justice Fusion (DOJ) Process Technical Assistance Program. All fusion center employees are expected to complete the online 28 CFR Part 23 certification training made available through this program. FY2019 SHSP-XX xxxxx funds may not be used to support fusion center-related initiatives unless the fusion center is able to certify that privacy and civil rights/civil liberties (CR/CL) protections are in place that are determined to be at least as comprehensive as the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Privacy Guidelines by the ISE Privacy Guidelines Committee (PGC) within 6 months of the award date on this FY2019 award. If these protections have not been submitted for review and on file with the ISE PGC, LE SHSP-LE grants funds may only be leveraged to support the development and/or completion of the fusion center’s privacy protections requirements. In order to effectively measure implementation of this priority, designated Major Urban Area fusion centers leveraging SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based upon compliance with the following set of requirements. These requirements are tracked for all primary or recognized fusion centers through the 2019 Fusion Center Assessment.

Investment Justification. As the State Administering Agency, the Ohio EMA expects our State, local and private partners to be familiar with the state preparedness architecture and to incorporate elements of this architecture into their counter-terrorism planning, operations and capability-building efforts. Successful regional collaboration allows for a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach to building capabilities, spreading costs, and mitigating risk across geographic areas. As federal homeland security funds become more competitive, agencies should be diligently working with their neighboring and regional jurisdictions to better coordinate homeland security expenditures and planning efforts to avoid duplicative or inconsistent investments. Thus, agencies must determine what levels of preparedness they can realistically develop and sustain over the long-term without continued reliance on federal funding. To accomplish this, agencies should already be using the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), State Stakeholder Preparedness Report Review (SPR), and Core Capabilities List to review their current readiness. The Ohio Homeland Security Strategic Plan identifies the goals and objectives needed to address and meet Ohio’s priorities. Each Project must explain how the proposed activity will support the applicant’s efforts to: • Prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism; • Prepare for all hazards and threats, while explaining the nexus to terrorism preparedness; • Protect citizens, residents, visitors, and assets against the greatest threats and hazards, relating to acts of terrorism; and/or • Respond quickly to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs in the aftermath of an act of terrorism or other catastrophic incident. Based upon ongoing intelligence analysis, capability review and assessment, Ohio will continue to focus available grant funding on investments to build risk-based capabilities where a nexus to terrorism exists. Ohio’s FY2018 regional FY2019 Regional SHSP-LE SHSP terrorism prevention investment area is as follows:: Enhance Intelligence Fusion and Information Sharing Capabilities The focus for Ohio’s FY2019 SHSP-LE continues to be support for the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), and specifically, the continued enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to include support for implementation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI). These centers provide an important linkage between local, State, tribal, regional, and Federal partners, as well as private industry, and as part of a national information sharing capability must establish and maintain the capacity to receive threat-related information, understand its implications locally and further disseminate it to other local, State, tribal, and private sector entities. At the same time, State and Major Urban Area fusion centers need to be able to aggregate, blend, and analyze information gathered from local law enforcement and share that information with Federal authorities. Allowable expenditures of funding include support for equipment and consultation necessary to enable connection to information sharing systems such as the National Data Exchange (NDex), the Nationwide SAR Initiative, and supporting program areas. Fusion centers are a critical component of our State’s distributed homeland security and counterterrorism architecture. They provide grassroots intelligence and analytic capabilities within the state and local jurisdictions (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers). To that end, the SHSP-LE will continue to support designated state and major Urban Area centers (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fusion- center-locations-and-contact-information) and the maturation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE). Participating in the Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) enables fusion centers to receive and analyze suspicious activity reporting from frontline public safety personnel, the private sector, and the public, and ensure the sharing of SAR with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) for further investigation. In support of this strategic vision, the U.S. DHS/FEMA requires designated State and Major Urban Area fusion centers to participate in an annual assessment of their achievement of Critical Operational Capabilities (COCs) and Enabling Capabilities (ECs). Maturation of the Ohio Fusion Center Network continues to be a high priority for the FY2019 SHSP-LE. Regions with fusion centers receiving SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based on compliance with the guidance and requirements for the National Network as set forth by DHS Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program. • FY 2019 Fusion Center Grant requirements are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/homeland- security-grant-program-hsgp. • DHS/FEMA approved analyst courses that meet the grant requirement are listed at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/fema-approved-intelligence-analyst-training-courses. Through the Performance Progress Report (SF-PPR), fusion centers will report on the achievement of capabilities and compliance with measurement requirements within the Maturation and Enhancement of State and Major Urban Area fusion centers priority through the annual Fusion Center Assessment Program managed by DHS I&A and reported to FEMA. (This process is subject to change by U.S. DHS I&A) In support of these efforts, Ohio EMA and Homeland Security (OHS) are encouraging the Regional/Major Urban Area fusion centers to prioritize the allocation of LE SHSP-XX xxxxx funding to meet and maintain identified levels baseline capabilities, as outlined in the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative’s (Global) Baseline Capabilities for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers. Additionally, fusion centers should assess their achievement of the baseline capabilities, so they may identify any resulting gaps. Requested LE SHSP-LE grants funds should then be prioritized to target and address these gaps, and the results of this gap analysis should be included in grant applications for any fusion center funding. All efforts should be made to address gaps that are identified by taking advantage of the service deliveries made available through the joint US DHS and Department of Justice Fusion (DOJ) Process Technical Assistance Program. All fusion center employees are expected to complete the online 28 CFR Part 23 certification training made available through this program. FY2019 SHSP-XX xxxxx funds may not be used to support fusion center-related initiatives unless the fusion center is able to certify that privacy and civil rights/civil liberties (CR/CL) protections are in place that are determined to be at least as comprehensive as the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Privacy Guidelines by the ISE Privacy Guidelines Committee (PGC) within 6 months of the award date on this FY2019 award. If these protections have not been submitted for review and on file with the ISE PGC, LE SHSP-LE grants funds may only be leveraged to support the development and/or completion of the fusion center’s privacy protections requirements. In order to effectively measure implementation of this priority, designated Major Urban Area fusion centers leveraging SHSP-XX xxxxx funds will be evaluated based upon compliance with the following set of requirements. These requirements are tracked for all primary or recognized fusion centers through the 2019 Fusion Center Assessment.