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IV. Program Activity Justification....................................................................................................4-1

A. Intelligence Decision Unit...........................................................................................................4-1

1. Program Description

2. Performance Tables

3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies

B. Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Decision Unit................................................................4-13

1. Program Description

3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies

D. Criminal Justice Services Decision Unit...................................................................................4-37

1. Program Description

2. Performance Tables

3. Performance, Resources, and Strategies

V. Program Increases by Item.........................................................................................................5-1

1. Countering Domestic Terrorism

2. McGirt Resources

A. Organizational Chart

B. Summary of Requirements

C. FY 2022 Program Increases/Offsets by Decision Unit

D. Resources by DOJ Strategic Goal/Objective

E. Justification for Technical and Base

F. Crosswalk of 2020 Availability

G. Crosswalk of 2021 Availability Summary of Reimbursable Positions

H. Detail of Permanent Positions by Category

I. Financial Analysis of Program Changes

J. Summary of Requirements by Object Class

VII. Construction..................................................................................................................................7-1

VIII. Glossary.........................................................................................................................................8-1

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I. OVERVIEW

The S&E request includes a total of 36,149 direct positions and 34,619 direct full-time

equivalents (FTE); the positions include:

• 13,414 Special Agents (SAs)

• 3,216 Intelligence Analysts (IAs)

• 19,519 Professional Staff (PS)

The S&E program increases total $150,730,000; 384 positions (139 SAs, 104 IAs, and 141 PS),

and 193 FTE, for the following:

• $15,230,000 for Cybersecurity

The request includes $215,442,000 in technical adjustments and adjustments to base (ATBs) for

continued support of the FBI’s base resources.

The $61,895,000 requested in the Construction account will maintain the Secure Work

Environment (SWE) program and provide:

• $10,000,000 in increases for safety and strategic improvements at Quantico

be viewed or downloaded from the Internet at: http://www.justice.gov/doj/budget-and-

performance.

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The FBI’s Mission: To protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.

The FBI Strategy: To focus strategic efforts across the enterprise, the FBI has eight mission

priorities and 13 enterprise objectives, organized by four guiding principles (people,

partnerships, process, and innovation).

6. Combat transnational criminal enterprises

7. Combat significant white-collar crime

8. Combat significant violent crime

Enterprise Objectives:

The FBI’s branches and divisions align their strategies to the FBI Strategy, via the enterprise

strategy process, by cascading selected enterprise objectives and executing strategic initiatives or

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organization ensures the FBI enterprise is strategically focused on the same objectives and

(legat) offices through the Integrated Program Management (IPM) and Threat Review and

Prioritization (TRP) processes. These processes enable threat issues to be identified across the

organization with accompanying threat strategies. Every two years, headquarters operational

divisions prioritize national threats, determine FBI National Threat Priorities (NTPs), and

develop national threat strategies and guidance for threat mitigation. The 56 field offices and 64

legat offices use this national guidance to formulate a field office and legat threat prioritization

and complete strategies specific to their areas of responsibility. These threat and program

the FBI to address the current range of threats while also focusing on the future needs of the FBI.

An increasing number of the FBI's programs and initiatives are multi-year and require phased

development, deployment, and operations or maintenance funding. This budget request is

designed to promote capabilities and strategies agile enough to meet ongoing, emerging, and

unknown national security, cyber, and criminal threats.

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presence in and serve a greater number of communities. FBI employees assigned to FOs and

presence in these countries and liaise with foreign counterparts and partners. These numbers

fluctuate based on the global threat environment.

FBI Headquarters, located in Washington, D.C., provides centralized operational, policy, and

administrative support to FBI investigations and programs. Under the direction of the FBI

Director and Deputy Director, this support is provided by:

• The Science and Technology Branch (STB), which includes the Criminal Justice

Several other headquarters offices also provide FBI-wide mission support:

• The Information and Technology Branch (ITB) oversees the IT Enterprise Services

• Specialized support is provided directly to the Director and Deputy Director through a

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Budget Structure: The FBI’s S&E funding is appropriated to four decision units (DU) that are

Resources are allocated to these four decision units in one of three ways:

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including escalating support from persons in the United States or abroad, growing perceptions of

government overreach related to legal or policy changes and disruptions, and high-profile attacks

spurring follow-on attacks and innovations in targeting and attack tactics.

DT lone offenders will continue to pose significant detection and disruption challenges because

of their capacity for independent radicalization to violence, ability to mobilize discretely, and

access to firearms.

The conflicts in Syria and Iraq have served as the most attractive overseas theaters for Western

extremists who want to engage in violence. More than 35,000 people from approximately 120

countries have traveled to join the fighting in Syria and Iraq, the large majority of which traveled

to join ISIS. ISIS and other terrorist organizations in the region have used these travelers to

facilitate terrorist activity beyond Iraq and Syria, particularly in their home countries, because

returning foreign fighters can radicalize members of the communities that they originally came

from.

ISIS has aggressively promoted its hateful message – attracting like-minded extremists,

at least 20 countries – continues to pose a threat to U.S. interests, both domestically and abroad,

radicalization and mobilization of U.S. persons, primarily through its official and unofficial

online propaganda. ISIS continues to call on its worldwide members and supporters to launch

attacks, where they are located using any means available, and virtual networks of ISIS members

and supporters continue to collaborate and share tactics in efforts to promote attacks around the

globe.

As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool exploited by terror groups. One

recent example includes an individual arrested for providing material support to ISIS by

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timely response to recover abducted children and arrest abductors. Deployed 181 times since its

The CST Initiative is a collaborative effort with multiple foreign partners that identifies and

prosecutes Americans who travel overseas to engage in sexual activity with minors or who cause

the sexual abuse of a child located overseas and rescues the child victims. CST has successfully

organized and participated in capacity-building for foreign LE, prosecutors, and non-government

organizations to better address this threat.

In June 2003, the FBI, with support from DOJ and technical assistance from the National Center

for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), implemented the ILNI to help children recruited

into commercial sex by sex traffickers. Under the ILNI, the FBI conducts nationwide operations

to recover children from sex traffickers and coordinates victim services for identified victims. In

coordination with federal, state, local, and tribal LE partners, the FBI uses sophisticated

investigative techniques in an intelligence-driven approach to dismantle sex trafficking

organizations.

Indian Country (IC) Crimes: Due to jurisdictional issues and the remote nature of many

reservations, the FBI is the primary LE entity in IC. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has a limited

matters generally focus on death investigations, child sexual assault and physical abuse, assault

resulting in serious bodily injury, gang/criminal enterprise investigations, and financial crimes.

ICSJU supports joint investigative efforts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal LE

agencies and manages and conducts essential investigative training for 24 Safe Trails Task

Forces, as well as approximately 150 FBI agents and LE partners focused on IC

crimes. Although IC cases are generally reactive, many are cross-programmatic in nature,

including Indian gaming, public corruption, and complex financial fraud.

On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court's ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma determined the territorial

boundaries of the Muscogee Creek Nation (MCN) fall under federal IC jurisdiction, effectively

Choctaw and Seminole tribal territories. The Cherokee and Chickasaw reservations were

reaffirmed as falling under federal jurisdiction on March 11, 2021 and the Choctaw and

Seminole reservations were reaffirmed on April 1, 2021. Combined, all five reservation

territories encompass approximately 32,000 square miles, or 45 percent of the state of Oklahoma.

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The total population within the combined borders is roughly 1.9 million, of which approximately

Civil Rights: The FBI has primary responsibility to investigate all alleged violations of federal

civil rights laws that protect all citizens and persons within the U.S., including hate crimes, color

of law (COL) violations, and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance (FACE) Act violations. As

previously mentioned, the FBI is also the lead investigative agency responsible for investigating

election fraud and voter suppression.

A hate crime is a traditional criminal offense, such as murder, arson, or vandalism, motivated

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haven” to those human rights violators. The International Human Rights Unit (IHRU) conducts

Section, Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Homeland Security Investigations at the Human

Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), the Department of State Office of Global

Criminal Justice, and the USIC.

partnership with the HRVWCC.

C. Intelligence-Driven Operations

integration of intelligence and operations, and proactively engaging in information sharing with

partners in federal, state, and local LE, the U.S. intelligence and private sector communities, as

well as international partnerships. The IB oversees the intelligence program implementation of

its six areas of focus: Workforce success, culture and mindset, technology capabilities,

The Executive Assistant Directors (EADs) for the IB, NSB, CCRSB, and STB work closely to

manage all the FBI’s intelligence and national security operational components, including CD,

CTD, CyD, DI, the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), the Terrorist Screening

Center (TSC), LD, CJIS, OTD, and WMDD. Additionally, the IB coordinates the management

of the FBI’s National Intelligence Program (NIP)-scored resources, supporting engagement with

FBI partners as well as intelligence-related training, technology, and secure work environments.

The IB EAD heads the FBI intelligence program, ensuring the national security and LE

intelligence functions of collection, targeting, domain, and threat analysis, and corresponding

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The FBI uses intelligence to understand criminal and national security threats and to conduct

II. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM CHANGES

Total, Salaries and Expenses Enhancements

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III. APPROPRIATIONS LANGUAGE AND ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATIONS

to exceed $216,900,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, that not to exceed

$284,000 shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.

Analysis of Appropriations Language

No substantive change.

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2 IV. PROGRAM ACTIVITY JUSTIFICATION

2021 Enacted

Adjustments to Base and Technical Adjustments

0

(86)

2022 Current Services

2022 Program Increases

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Group (SIIG), DI, OPE, and OPS; the intelligence functions within CTD, CD, CyD, CID, and

WMDD; field office intelligence programs, the TSC, infrastructure and technology (e.g.,

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, or SCIFs, and the Sensitive Compartmented

Information Network, or SCINet), and intelligence training. The IDU also includes a portion of

CIRG, LD, and IOD based on the work that those divisions complete in support of intelligence

activities. Additionally, to capture all resources that support these programs, a prorated share of

resources from the FBI's operational support divisions (including TD, LD, and SecD; the

administrative and information technology divisions; and staff offices) are calculated and scored

to this DU.

aspects of the FBI’s intelligence work.

The SIIG provides FBI leaders with a consolidated, integrated perspective on threats while

helping to integrate and balance the FBI’s priorities with those of the broader USIC and USG.

Led by a Deputy Assistant Director, the SIIG is made up of Senior National Intelligence Officers

with subject-matter expertise on geographic and functional programs who help integrate the

FBI’s understanding of priority threat issues. The SIIG also houses the Bureau Control Office,

which manages the FBI’s sensitive compartmented information program.

Directorate of Intelligence

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intelligence and operations within the FBI. DI carries out these functions through embedded

determine potential courses of action, and place analysis in the context of ongoing intelligence

and investigative operations.

The FBI’s IA cadre performs the following functions:

• Reporting raw intelligence in a timely manner;

• Performing strategic analysis at HQ to ascertain the ability to collect against a national

• Recommending collection exploitation opportunities at all levels.

The products generated by intelligence analysis ensure FBI investigative and operational

strategies are based on an enterprise-wide understanding of the current and future threat

and emerging threats.

Foreign Language Program

The FLP provides quality language solutions, analysis, and cultural expertise to the FBI and its

foreign intelligence operations and espionage, and dismantling transnational criminal enterprises

is increasingly dependent upon maximizing the use and deployment of its linguist workforce,

language tools, and technology. The FBI workforce has qualified capabilities in 142 languages

and dialects, spanning approximately 100 FBI domestic and overseas locations. The FLP

promulgates policies and compliance requirements to ensure integrity of intelligence products.

Additionally, the FLP develops the foreign language skills of the FBI employees through

Language Analysts and English Monitoring Analysts are a critical component of the FBI’s effort

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to acquire and accurately process real-time, actionable intelligence to detect and prevent terrorist

priorities and protect the nation and its interests. NVTC was established under Section 907 of the

USA Patriot Act (2001) and designated a USIC service of common concern in 2014. Since its

inception, NVTC has complemented USIC elements’ foreign language translation capabilities by

supporting tasks ranging from high-volume surges to immediate translation requirements in 142

languages and dialects. NVTC operates within a virtual model that connects NVTC program

staff, translators, field offices, and customers globally via a common web-based workflow

management system.

opportunities are available to the FBI’s workforce. The FBI’s training program identifies and

coordinates the certification of adjunct faculty, communicates educational and developmental

opportunities outside the FBI, and facilitates opportunities for research related to intelligence

analysis. Moreover, the FBI uses an integrated approach to training bringing employees together

at the beginning of their careers to help them understand the importance and impact of an

integrated intelligence and operational methodology – a model that continues across the FBI’s

intermediate and advanced courses of instruction.

Office of Partner Engagement

OPE implements initiatives and strategies that support engagement, communication,

management for the FBI's engagement with state and local fusion centers, and proactively

reviewing and disseminating relevant and appropriate threat information to FBI, federal, and

SLTT partners.

Office of Private Sector

strengthening the FBI’s relationships with the U.S. private sector partners. OPS builds, supports,

facilitates, and enhances strategic relationships between the FBI, private industry, and academia.

OPS also develops tools to support those relationships, and facilitates information sharing, while

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OPE manages the intelligence training for Fusion Center personnel and SLTT LE partner agency

departments and communities. To bolster the intelligence production, OPE will complement the

OPE’s strategy for intelligence and leadership training helps the FBI strengthen its relationships

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a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes

TSC's commitment to maintaining the highest level of quality while ensuring the most up-to-date

able to rapidly forward this vital data downstream to our partners, ensuring that any new threats

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complex watchlisting mission.

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B. Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Decision Unit

2020 Enacted

13,608

12,932

2021 Enacted

13,713

13,060

Adjustments to Base and Technical Adjustments

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86

2022 Current Services

13,729

13,146

2022 Program Increases

92

2022 Request

13,912

13,238

Total Change 2021-2022

1. Program Description

unit.

Counterterrorism Program

The mission of the FBI’s CT program is to lead LE and domestic intelligence efforts to:

• Prevent, disrupt, and defeat terrorist operations before they occur,

• Pursue the appropriate sanctions for those who have conducted, aided, and abetted those

engaged in terrorist acts, and

• Provide crisis management following acts of terrorism against the U.S. and its interests.

conduct an act of terrorism, to investigating those who provide financial or other support to

terrorist operations. FBI Headquarters maintains oversight of all CT investigations, thereby

employing and enhancing a national perspective that focuses on the CT strategy of creating an

inhospitable terrorist environment.

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preparation are all required components of terrorist operations. These requirements create

• Rigorous program management to ensure standardization of the FBI’s policies and

• Development of technical tools to collect and exploit data, in order to enhance targeting

• Evaluation of human intelligence (HUMINT) to effect disruptions and help anticipate

The CT strategy puts the FBI in a position to achieve long-term agility and flexibility to meet the

subject matter experts (SME) who work closely with investigators in the field and integrate

intelligence across multiple organizations. This integration allows for real-time responses to

threat information and quick communication with decision-makers and the field.

The FBI has established strong working relationships with other members of the USIC. Through

daily meetings with other USIC executives, the regular exchange of personnel among agencies,

joint efforts in specific investigations and in the NCTC, the TSC, other multi-agency entities, and

integrated at every level of operations.

With terrorists international reach, coordination with foreign partners is crucial. The FBI has

neutralize weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats against the homeland and support

interests abroad. The WMDD unifies LE authorities, intelligence analysis capabilities, and

technical subject matter expertise into an effective national approach to preventing and

responding to WMD threats.

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Preparing, assessing, and responding to WMD threats and incidents is challenging because

approach includes:

policies into its preparedness activities. The WMDD implements

planning, training, and practice exercises to ensure that the FBI and its

USG partners are ready to respond to WMD threats in a highly

cohesive and efficient manner.

actors to obtain, create, and use a WMD.

situations.

the subject matter expertise of the WMDD, and the analytical capabilities of the DI, to create

specialized counterproliferation (CP) units to detect, deter, and defeat the threat posed by state-

sponsored groups, individuals, and/or organizations as they attempt to obtain WMD or other

sensitive technologies. The hybrid nature of CP operations incorporates aggressive

counterintelligence and criminal investigative techniques, to prevent the acquisition of WMDs

and dismantle the transfer of the most sensitive technologies. The FBI's CP program works

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Counterintelligence Program

Executive Order (EO) 12333 assigns to the Director of the FBI, under the Attorney General,

oversight and supervision responsibility for conducting and coordinating CI activities within the

U.S. The FBI’s CI mission is to defeat hostile intelligence activities targeting the U.S. The FBI

works to identify and understand threats while protecting vital U.S. entities – in particular, state

secrets, intellectual property, and democratic values – through a culture of sharing, collaboration,

and integration with private, public, and international partners.

collectors not affiliated with intelligence services, foreign investment in critical U.S. sectors, and

infiltration of U.S. supply chains. The FBI continues to adjust its CI priorities and posture to

address the evolving and multifaceted threat.

Computer Intrusion Program (Cyber)

Malicious cyber activity threatens the US’ public health and safety, national security, and

economic security. The FBI adopted a new cyber strategy in FY 2020 to change the cost–benefit

for criminals and foreign states who attempt to compromise U.S. networks, steal U.S. financial

and intellectual property, and hold U.S. critical infrastructure at risk.

Within the government, that hub is the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF),

which the FBI leads with more than 30 co-located USIC and LE agencies. The NCIJTF is

organized around new mission centers based on key cyber threat areas and led by senior

executives from partner agencies. Through these mission centers, operations and intelligence are

integrated to sequence unilateral, joint, and enabled operations for maximum impact against our

adversaries.

The FBI also leads the National Defense Cyber Alliance, where experts from the government

and cleared defense contractors share threat intelligence in real time, and is co-located with

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partners in industry, academia, and the financial sector as part of the National Cyber-Forensics

crisis management resources. CIRG personnel are on call around the clock to respond to crisis

incidents requiring an immediate LE response and to support FBI planning and coordination of

special events. CIRG also furnishes distinctive training to FBI field personnel, as well as state,

local, federal, tribal, and international LE partners in support of this mission. This includes

Hazardous Device School (HDS) certification and recertification, as well as advanced training to

all U.S. public safety bomb technicians and accreditation of all U.S. public safety bomb squads.

unarmed investigative specialists who perform surveillances of targets who are unlikely to be

violent. SOGs, SSGs, and aviation surveillance provide critical support to all programs. CIRG is

responsible for managing the FBI’s counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) program,

performing both detect, track, locate, and identify (DTLI) and mitigation missions. CIRG

operates the Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC) to maintain 24/7/365

enterprise-wide situational awareness. In addition, CIRG oversees the National Center for the

Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) Program and provides behavioral analysis and assessments

for complex and time-sensitive investigations across multiple programs.

encompasses all of these elements.

Legal Attaché Program

Legats are the forward element of the FBI's international LE effort and often provide the first

response to crimes against the U.S. and its citizens that have an international nexus. The

counterterrorism component of the legat program is comprised of agents stationed overseas who

work closely with their foreign counterparts to prevent terrorism from reaching into the U.S.,

help solve crimes, and assist with the apprehension of international terrorists who violate U.S.

laws.

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Discussion

personnel claim statistical accomplishments for various types of operational activities so the

number of occurrences of these activities can be tracked for oversight purposes. By this

definition, dismantlement's are relatively rare. Disruptions are the primary accomplishment that

demonstrates how the FBI has stopped or mitigated threat activities against U.S. targets, and

disruptions vary in size of impact. The target remains stable so that investigators can focus on

impact to the threat actor rather than the total number of disruptions each year.

approach to put direct emphasis on combatting the highest priority threats as determined through

FBI and USIC analysis and strategic vision. The mission centers leverage the broadest set of

lawful tools, including non-prosecutorial methods, and the broadest set of allies, including other

U.S. agencies at all levels of government, the private sector, and friendly foreign partners,

against the most damaging sponsors of hostile foreign intelligence activity. The FBI has

increased coordination with that set of allies through the National Counterintelligence Task

Force (NCITF), providing nationwide coordination with federal LE and USIC partners on the

model of successful drug and counterterrorism joint task forces. The NCITF supports CI task

forces in all 56 field offices, allowing the FBI to leverage additional federal, state, and local LE

personnel to bring additional resources to bear on the broad-based counterintelligence threat.

pandemic. While the total number of disruptions and dismantlements lagged behind the annual

target, the numbers show this was a direct result of COVID-19 protection strategies in quarters 3

and 4. Throughout FY20, the FBI Counterintelligence Division continued its focus on

identifying, understanding, and combating foreign activities in order to deter, defeat, and

aggressively respond to counterintelligence threats against U.S. national and economic security.

Key accomplishments include the August arrests of Alexander Yuk Ching Ma and Peter Rafael

Dzibinski Debbins on charges that they provided national security information to the

governments of China and Russia, respectively; the July forfeiture filings to seize the ill-gotten

gains from North Korean and Iranian violators of international sanctions on their governments;

and the February indictment of Chinese technology firm Huawei with conspiracy to violate the

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), marking a novel use of this legal

Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)

a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes

The FBI’s counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) program remains a priority strategic

initiative for the organization in order to better protect the American people and stay ahead of

emerging threats. Program management responsibilities have transitioned from the OTD to the

CIRG, and the CIRG will continue to enhance the FBI’s capabilities in the C-UAS mission space

FY19 Actual: 20

FY20 Target: 20

FY20 Actual: 20

FY21 Target: 20

FY22 Target: 20

Discussion

C-UAS measure: Within the past few years, UAS experienced rapid advancements in

technology and market growth resulting in highly capable, simple-to-use aircraft which are easily

accessible to the general public. As UAS continue to become more complex and integrated into

threat posed by UAS, the CIRG’s C-UAS program is exploring means to expand research and

development capabilities, as well as operational capacity.

b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes

CIRG’s strategy to protect the American people, stay ahead of the threat, and lead in the mission

space for the FBI’s C-UAS program is a defensive one where the CIRG actively deploys C-UAS

technology in support of National Special Security Events (NSSEs) and Special Event

Assessment Rating (SEAR) events, as well as for investigative purposes. Current defensive

capabilities include detection, tracking, locating, and identification of small UAS devices

utilizing an array of technologies to include: radio frequency (RF) direction finding, RF decoding

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and demodulation, radar, and infrared/electro-optical camera systems. The CIRG’s C-UAS

for the event, the C-UAS program will deploy and utilize technologies capable of mitigating a

UAS while in flight. UAS mitigation capabilities are categorized as (from least to most

destructive) either cyber, RF jamming, or kinetic. Cyber-based mitigation involves a man-in-the-

middle style attack, essentially, hijacking the UAS command and control (C2) signal – this

allows for the C-UAS operator to take control of the UAS, providing several options. RF

jamming overwhelms the UAS command and control link within a given environment. This

technique may or may not lead to a predictable outcome. Kinetic mitigation is any method that

identify, track, and locate UAS that utilize cellular and/or satellite communication for command

and control (C2). The FBI currently utilizes equipment capable of detecting and tracking

traditional UAS C2 technologies, which are limited in range and to line-of-site communication.

Recent technological developments have provided industry and hobbyists with commercially

available and inexpensive equipment which allow for UAS C2 over cellular and satellite

communications networks. This advancement is very likely to be adopted by industry and

hobbyists in the near future, in part, because it eliminates the range and line-of-site restrictions of

traditional UAS C2. Although current cellular based tracking technology is very capable, it is not

able to identify and/or distinguish the difference between cellular-based UAS C2 and standard

cellular communications traffic.

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C. Criminal Enterprises and Federal Crimes Decision Unit

Divisions; the administrative and information technology divisions; and staff offices) are

calculated and scored to the decision unit.

institution fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, and other complex financial crimes.

Violent Crime and Gang Threats

The FBI’s violent crime and gang program aims to combat violent criminal threats and to disrupt

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The violent crime component combats the most significant violent crime offenders and threats

officers.

Cyber Program

Included under the purview of the cyber program within the CEFC DU are criminal computer

intrusion investigations conducted by the CyD and IC3.

Legal Attaché Program

knowledge to coordinate investigations large and small. Legats partner with the FBI’s criminal

and intelligence divisions, foreign LE, and U.S. and foreign intelligence and security services.

The IOD and legat program also includes a major training component, which includes efforts

such as supporting international LE academies and teaching LE partners about proper

investigation techniques at crime scenes or crisis management.

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3. Resources and Strategies

within the criminal program. As such, the measures cannot adequately demonstrate all of the work

performed within the CID’s budget or resources, which is allocated across all criminal threats, not just

those posed by gangs, criminal enterprises/organizations, and drug trafficking organizations. However,

gangs, criminal enterprises, criminal organizations engaging in white-collar crime and money

laundering, and drug-trafficking organizations are some of the highest priority threats, as identified by

DOJ and FBI. As disruptions and dismantlements of these criminal groups hinders or eliminates their

ability to commit crimes, these performance measures demonstrate the most impactful work performed

by the FBI against these threats.

DOJ maintains a national list of the most prolific major international drug trafficking and money

laundering organizations threatening the U.S. known as the Consolidated Priority Organization Target

Increase the number of CPOT-linked cases, thereby leading to increased disruptions linked to CPOTs.

CPOT-linked DTOs dismantled:

Increase the number of CPOT-linked cases, thereby leading to increased dismantlements linked to

CPOTs.

Percentage of gang/criminal enterprise dismantlements (non-CPOT):

Increase the percentage of gang/criminal enterprise dismantlements (non-CPOT).

Number of criminal organizations engaging in white collar crimes dismantled:

organizations and gangs, and uses all available tools, to include developing relationships with foreign

LE partners and targeting the most egregious criminal acts, to disrupt and dismantle the most violent

gangs and criminal organizations. CID is also committed to vigorous enforcement of the wide range of

financial criminal violations within its purview. Major areas of focus include money laundering, health

care fraud, corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, fraud targeting the elderly, and intellectual

property rights crimes (e.g., theft of trade secrets and counterfeiting). To combat those crimes, the FBI

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focuses heavily on maintaining and enhancing relationships with foreign, state, local, and private

industry partners; developing advanced analytical capabilities to identify criminal activity; and targeting

the most egregious criminal actors to disrupt and dismantle schemes and organizations.

Performance Measure: Percentage increase of gang/criminal enterprise dismantlement's (non-CPOT)

from prior FY

FY19 Target: 15% (198)

FY19 Actual: 16% (217)

FY20 Target: 15% (227)

FY20 Actual: -6.6% (185)

FY21 Target: 15% (261)

FY22 Target: 15% (300)

FY20 Actual: 205

FY21 Target: 400

FY22 Target: 400

Performance Measure: CPOT-linked DTOs disrupted

FY19 Target: 50

FY19 Actual: 58

FY20 Target: 50

FY20 Actual: 76

FY19 Actual: 14

FY20 Target: 20

FY20 Actual: 11

FY21 Target: 20

FY22 Target: 20

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Performance Measure: Number of investigations opened on Elder Fraud

FY19 Target: 60

Discussion

A dismantlement occurs when the targeted organization's leadership, financial base, and supply

network has been destroyed, such that the organization is incapable of operating and/or reconstituting

itself. By definition, an organization can only be dismantled once. However, in the case of large

organizations, a number of individual identifiable cells or subgroups may be present. Each of these cells

or subgroups maintains and provides a distinct function supporting the entire organization. The point in

which a dismantlement will be claimed is only at the time of the conviction of the last subject in the

organization and/or the conviction of the primary target of the organization/identifiable cell or

subgroups. For violent criminal threat matters, an organization is a group of three or more individuals

knowingly involved in a criminal activity.

enterprise as indicated by changes in the organizational leadership or methods of operation (e.g.,

financing, trafficking patterns, communications, or drug production). An affirmative LE action resulting

in multiple arrests, seizures, indictments, or convictions of an organization’s members should be

reported as one disruption of that organization.

b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes

The CID’s strategy focuses on strategic objectives and efforts to fulfill the FBI’s vision to stay ahead of

the threat. CID has developed, implemented, and prioritized strategies as part of DOJ’s strategic goal 3

“reduce violent crime and promote public safety,” objectives 3.1 “combat violent crime, promote safe

communities, and uphold the rights of victims of crime,” and 3.2 “disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking

investigations against the high value subjects.

The FBI has developed a holistic strategy to investigate and prosecute illegal drug traffickers and

distributors, reduce drug-related crime and violence, provide assistance to other LE agencies, and

strengthen international cooperation. The FBI’s strategy focuses on the FBI's counter-drug resources on

identified CPOT organizations with the most adverse impact on U.S. national interests. The FBI also

prioritizes efforts to combat the nationwide opioid epidemic, including addressing traditional criminal

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Firearm background checks may be conducted by either the CJIS NICS Section or a state or local

LE agency serving as an intermediary between an FFL and the NICS Section. These

intermediaries are referred to as POCs. The NICS Section provides full service to the FFLs in 30

states, five U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. The NICS provides partial service to

seven states. The remaining 13 states perform their own checks through the NICS.

NICS checks can be initiated in two ways: 1) via the NICS contracted call center, or 2) via the

must utilize and maintain as documentation of the firearm transfer from their inventory.

The NICS is customarily available by phone 17 hours a day, seven days a week, including

holidays (except Christmas). Calls may be monitored and recorded for any authorized purpose.

The NICS E-Check is available 24/7.

During FY 2020, the NICS experienced its highest transaction volume to date. In FY 2020, the

NICS processed over 34,000,000 total transactions compared to 27,487,818 in FY 2019, a 24

percent increase.

compilations of crimes such as murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary,

larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson; officers killed and assaulted in the line of duty; hate

crime statistics; and use-of-force incidents. These publications also fulfill the FBI’s obligations

under Title 28, U.S. Code, Section 534.

The FBI Crime Data Explorer serves as the digital front door for the UCR data. This interactive

online tool enables LE and the general public to easily access, use, and understand the massive

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amounts of UCR data currently collected. With it, users can view charts and agency-level data

for data publication and the application of imputed and estimated data, changes for the data

collected, data utilization use cases, and alignment of data definitions throughout all UCR

collections.

Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal: The FBI’s LEEP is a gateway for thousands of users in the

criminal justice, intelligence, and military communities to gain access to critical data protected at

the Controlled Unclassified Information level in one centralized location. With one click, users

National Data Exchange: The FBI’s N-DEx System is an unclassified national strategic

investigative information-sharing system, which enables criminal justice agencies to search, link,

analyze, and share local, state, tribal, and federal records across jurisdictional boundaries. The N-

DEx System contains incident, arrest, and booking reports; pretrial investigations; supervised

release reports; calls for service; photos; and field contact/identification records.

By using the N-DEx System as a pointer system and for data discovery, users can uncover

relationships between people, crime characteristics, property, and locations; generate integrated

biographies of subjects; eliminate information gaps by linking information across jurisdictions;

existing state and regional systems and is positioned to fill in gaps in the many areas of the

country where no information sharing system or program currently exists. The N-DEx System

contains over 538 million searchable records from over 7,500 criminal justice agencies and

provides access to an additional 336 million records from DHS, the Interstate Identification

Index, NCIC, and INTERPOL.

National Threat Operations Center: NTOC serves as the FBI’s central intake point for the general

public and other government agencies to provide information about potential or ongoing crimes,

threats-to-life (TTL), and national security threats. NTOC centralizes the flow of information

from the public to the FBI by handling calls from all FBI field offices, the Major Case Contact

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Center, the IC3, the WMD tip line, and all FBI electronic information submissions (E-Tips). The

provide reliable, actionable, and high-value information to the field and other partner agencies.

notification of every TTL complaint received by NTOC to the appropriate field office operations

center. NTOC also provides direct communication to state, local, and tribal partners on emergent

TTL matters to ensure a timely response. The TIEs receive, analyze, and disseminate information

pertaining to potential and actual emergencies and national security situations using probing

37,313 Guardian entries (referrals to a field office for further action). Of these tips, 89 percent

were criminal, five percent were counterterrorism, and approximately six percent were

counterintelligence, weapons of mass destruction, or cyber referrals. Of the 37,313 Guardians

generated, 77 percent were referred to other LE agencies, 12 percent were used to open new FBI

cases, and 11 percent added information to existing FBI cases.

In addition, NTOC holdings are made available to all FBI FOs via “read-only” access through

the LEEP. This unprecedented access allows field office more opportunities to enhance ongoing

investigations/assessments and provide better situational awareness in individual field office area

of responsibility. NTOC also provides a routine weekly report via email regarding Domain

The FBI Laboratory is a full-service civilian federal forensic laboratory that applies scientific

capabilities and technical services to the collection, processing, and exploitation of evidence to

support the FBI, other duly constituted LE and intelligence agencies, and some foreign LE

agencies unable to perform the examinations on their own in support of investigative and

intelligence priorities.

Training Division

In addition to training FBI agents, the FBI provides instruction for state and local LE

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Due to the increasingly global nature of many of the FBI's investigative initiatives, the FBI has in

recent years emphasized the need to train its foreign LE partners through the international

training and assistance program.

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3. Resources and Strategies

protect the American people and LE partners. The following measures will be utilized to drive toward a

high degree of system availability to ensure CJIS continues to progress towards achieving DOJ strategic

objective 4.4.

CJIS intends to provide percentages quarterly to demonstrate system availability for NGI. The outcome

for this measure is 99.5 percent system availability to ensure operational efficiencies.

Performance Measure: Percent of NGI system availability

FY19 Target: 99.5%

FY19 Actual: 99.90%

FY20 Target: 99.5%

FY20 Actual: 99.81%

FY21 Target: 99.5%

FY22 Target: 99.5%

FY21 Target: 99.5%

FY20 Actual: 99.81%

FY21 Target: 98%

FY22 Target: 98%

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Discussion

NGI (99.5%) - Provide exemplary system availability to ensure the most complete and up-to-date

ensuring the timely transfer of firearms or firearm and explosive-related permits to eligible persons.

The system availability for NGI, NCIC, and NICS measures the probability that these major information

sharing systems are functioning when needed, under normal operating conditions.

b. Strategies to Accomplish Outcomes

CJIS will collect daily statistics for the three system availabilities during the quarter and report outcomes

as necessary. The daily updates will ensure consistent management of the systems to ensure

achievement of the measure targets set forth for FY 2022. Additionally, STB will monitor and manage

quarterly strategic goals and objectives set by branch executive management to maintain oversight

a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes

LD will measure the change in the number of profiles in the National DNA Index System (NDIS) with

the aim of demonstrating the overall impact of the National DNA Database. DNA profiles in NDIS

support the exchange and comparison of forensic DNA evidence from violent crime investigations.

NDIS submissions, the highest level of the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) hierarchy, enable

the exchange and comparison of DNA profiles on a national level from partner laboratories. An increase

in the volume of profiles provides insight into the potential for providing aid to investigations and

obtaining hits. An increase in this number impacts LD budget and resourcing requirements.

DNA legislation has had two recent legislation updates, which involve federal DNA collection agencies

FY19 Target: 950,000

FY19 Actual: 1,024,489

FY20 Target: 950,000

FY20 Actual: 833,140

FY21 Target: 700,000

FY22 Target: 700,000

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Discussion

The greater the number of DNA profiles in NDIS, the greater the ability to obtain forensic and offender

stakeholders and customers. LD will enhance forensic capabilities by ensuring research is relevant, well-

managed, and aligned to DOJ and FBI gaps and strategic priorities. LD will support this strategic

direction through communication and collaboration with CODIS partners and stakeholders (conferences,

Advisory Policy Board (APB) working groups, etc.), implementation of Rapid DNA capability and

booking stations, and the processing of DNA samples from federal arrestees and convicted offenders by

entering the samples into CODIS. LD will also participate in the development of relevant policies that

impact the submission of DNA samples.

The FBI missed its FY 2020 target number of DNA profiles in the NDIS changed by 116,860. NDIS is a

system of DNA profile records input by criminal justice agencies, including state and local law

Operational Technology Division

a. Performance Plan and Report for Outcomes

The intent of the OTD’s strategy and strategic measure is for the OTD to deploy innovative solutions in

a consistently changing communications environment where there is still a serious need for federal

secure radio communications. By replacing single-band radios with multi-band radios, the FBI will be

able to inter-operate more regularly and with more fluidity amongst federal, state, and local partners.

The FBI relies on radio communications to conduct a vast array of investigations to include those that

support DOJ’s strategic objectives of disrupting terrorist planning and hostile intelligence activities in

interoperability

FY19 Target: 8%

FY19 Actual: 10%

FY20 Target: 8%

FY20 Actual: 10.6%

FY21 Target: 9%

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FY22 Target: 9%

Discussion

goals and support the needs of agents in the field. Increasing the number of multi-band radios in the FBI

state, and local LE partners to support DOJ objectives.