# 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/)