# El Paso Intelligence Center **Aliases:** EPIC **Entity class:** Federal multiagency intelligence center ## Definition The **El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC)** is a [[wiki/Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]]-led U.S. government intelligence center in El Paso. DEA describes it as a task-force environment with representatives from 21 participating agencies and an **“all threats”** mission focused especially on the Western Hemisphere and Southwest border. It supplies tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence to federal, state, local, tribal, and international law-enforcement partners. ## Importance “All threats” makes EPIC a documented infrastructure nexus rather than merely a narcotics office. Its databases, watch operations, deconfliction, partner access, and [[wiki/EPIC Portal|EPIC Portal]] support intelligence exchange across organizational boundaries. This established multiagency architecture predates the new El Paso data-center projects and must be kept analytically distinct from them. ## Relationships - **led by:** [[wiki/Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]]. - **regional node:** [[wiki/El Paso AI-Compute and Military Modernization Corridor|El Paso–Fort Bliss corridor]]. - **partner access:** [[wiki/EPIC Portal|EPIC Portal]]. - **operational context:** Southwest border, counterdrug, transnational crime, and [[wiki/Counterterrorism|counterterrorism]] intelligence. ## Sources / Provenance - [DEA — El Paso Intelligence Center](https://www.dea.gov/what-we-do/law-enforcement/epic) - [DEA — EPIC resources](https://www.dea.gov/epicresources)