# NSI Concept of Operations **Entity class:** Publication, event, or case **Domain:** Reporting ## Definition Operational design document describing how the national SAR initiative organizes reporting, review, and sharing. The article uses its 2008 publication to locate the program's architecture before its later institutional scale-up. ## 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/Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative|Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative]]. - **article-linked institution or supplier:** [[wiki/Bureau of Justice Assistance|Bureau of Justice Assistance]]. - **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) - [GAO, Information Sharing: Additional Actions Could Help Ensure That Efforts to Share Terrorism-Related Suspicious Activity Reports Are Effective (GAO-13-233).](https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-13-233.pdf)