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• DHS has a strong need for data to support policy and create actionable operational intelligence. These data needs span the gamut of incident types, actors, motivations, and tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Many sources are available to support DHS needs. However, some areas, such as cyberthreats and emerging technologies, require new database construction.
• Although the overall quality of the prominent databases is generally high, the quality assurance and study documentation standards are inconsistently applied, suggesting a need for clearly promulgated requirements.

In September 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence, which calls for better data resources to support DHS efforts to understand and prevent terrorism and targeted violence. This report provides an independent review of DHS needs, existing prominent databases, the alignment of existing databases with DHS data needs, and the quality of prominent databases on terrorism and targeted violence. Results indicate that DHS data needs are broad and complex and that many can be addressed by available unclassified databases. However, several gaps remain. Results also show that the current databases are of sufficient quality for DHS analytic needs but that a gap exists in quality assurance practices in that they are applied inconsistently across the field. Finally, the study shows that many of the available databases were developed to respond to the threat and policy environments in which they were created and that evolving strategic needs and emerging issues could require new definitions, significant updates, and, potentially, new construction of databases to meet DHS needs.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  A Review of Department of Homeland Security Data Needs

• Chapter Three

  The Current State of Databases on Terrorism and Targeted Violence

• Chapter Four

  Conclusions and Recommendations

• Appendix A

  Databases Identified

• Appendix B

  Databases Selected

• Appendix C

  Scoring Fields for Self-Reported Quality-Control Measures