# FBI Public-Private Infrastructure Intelligence **Entity class:** Concept or operational method **Domain:** Reporting ## Definition Two-way sharing links FBI requirements with information held by infrastructure owners, operators, and specialists. The article uses InfraGard to show public-private awareness organized as a continuing professional network. ## Operational role Civilian reporting expands national awareness when observations enter a standard process of intake, review, sharing, and analysis. The same find, fuse, identify, correlate, geolocate, predict, and act-faster architecture appears under counterterrorism and broader homeland-security vocabulary. Professional training and reliable information handling make distributed participation useful. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/Fusion Center|Fusion Center]] · [[wiki/Intelligence Fusion|Intelligence Fusion]] · [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]]. ## Relationships - **article-linked implementation or program:** [[wiki/InfraGard|InfraGard]]. - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Critical Infrastructure|Critical Infrastructure]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#V. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Architecture: Civilianized Collection by Design|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — V. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Architecture: Civilianized Collection by Design]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [Office of Justice Programs, Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Concept of Operations (December 2008).](https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/nationwide-suspicious-activity-reporting-sar-concept-operations) - [Congressional Research Service, Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative (R40901).](https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R40901.html)