# Data and Analytical Support Services
**Entity class:** Homeland Security Investigations acquisition initiative
## Definition
**Data and Analytical Support Services** is an HSI acquisition forecast covering screening and vetting, lead development, criminal analysis, automated pattern and relationship detection, anomaly detection, and graphical representation of networks. The forecast makes the contemporary pattern-analysis mission explicit even though it is distributed across services rather than concentrated in ICEPIC.
## Relationships
- **sponsor:** [[wiki/Homeland Security Investigations|HSI]].
- **supports:** [[wiki/Case Management and Analytics Platform|CMAP]], entity resolution, graph analytics, and investigative workflows.
- **historical functional predecessor:** [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [DHS APFS — Data and Analytical Support Services](https://apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/73278/public-print/)