Integrating Intelligence explores how the present, ad hoc U.S. federal, state, and local intelligence enterprise developed, and analyses its prospects for continued evolution. Examining the types of threats that have warranted information sharing in past, Tromblay breaks down the structures of information sharing and current areas where information-sharing enterprises need to be strengthened at all levels of government to effectively disrupt threats to national security. This book provides a baseline understanding of how the federal, state, and local domestically-oriented intelligence enterprise has reached its modern organization, and creates a common point of reference for future intelligence agents to assess the enterprise's effectiveness and shortcomings. Intelligence, criminal justice, and public policy programs grapple with aspects of ensuring that the right information is shared and acted on in furtherance of national security. Practitioners – especially those responsible for developing the architecture for information sharing as well as those seeking a better understanding of the architecture they are using daily – will benefit from this invaluable source that explains how and why the current system has developed and what course corrections are necessary to ensure that information can be exploited by federal, state, and local authorities to achieve a unified approach to national security.

Darren E. Tromblay served as an Intelligence Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than 15 years. He is the author of multiple books including: Spying: Assessing U.S. Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11; Securing the Private Sector; The FBI Abroad; and Political Influence Operations. His work has been published by multiple peer-reviewed journals including Intelligence and National Security and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence as well as by publications including Lawfare and Just Security. Mr. Tromblay holds an MA from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, an MS from the National Intelligence University, and a BA from the University of California, Riverside.