# Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative **Aliases:** NSI; Nationwide SAR Initiative **Entity class:** National information-sharing initiative ## Definition The **Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI)** provides standards, policies, processes, and training for federal, state, local, and tribal law-enforcement entities to identify, evaluate, and share suspicious-activity reports with a potential terrorism nexus. GAO reported that by February 2013 DOJ had trained about 290,000 of an estimated 800,000 line officers, briefed executives at 77 of 78 fusion centers, and trained about 2,000 analysts. Those are training-reach figures rather than counts of continuous intelligence participants. ## Relationships - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Suspicious Activity Reporting|Suspicious Activity Reporting]]. - **article-linked implementation or program:** [[wiki/Information Sharing Environment|Information Sharing Environment]]. - **article-linked implementation or program:** [[wiki/eGuardian|eGuardian]]. - **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]]. - **report object:** [[wiki/Suspicious Activity Reporting|Suspicious Activity Reporting]]. - **institutional network:** [[wiki/National Network of Fusion Centers|National Network of Fusion Centers]]. - **public-facing campaign:** [[wiki/If You See Something, Say Something|If You See Something, Say Something]]. - **federal partners:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[wiki/United States Department of Homeland Security|DHS]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [GAO — Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, March 13, 2013](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-13-233) - [GAO — Counterterrorism Information Sharing Environment, March 2023](https://www.gao.gov/assets/830/827084.pdf) ## Civilian intelligence marketplace National standards, training, and sharing architecture for suspicious-activity reporting with a terrorism nexus. The article follows its design and scaling as an intentional way to convert distributed observations into national awareness. 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. ### Marketplace sources - [[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) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Civilianized Intelligence Collection|Civilianized Intelligence Collection]], [[wiki/Suspicious Activity Reporting|Suspicious Activity Reporting]], [[wiki/ISE-SAR Functional Standard|ISE-SAR Functional Standard]], [[wiki/NSI Concept of Operations|NSI Concept of Operations]], [[wiki/NSI Program Management Office|NSI Program Management Office]], [[wiki/Fusion Center|Fusion Center]], [[wiki/Shared Spaces Servers|Shared Spaces Servers]], [[wiki/If You See Something, Say Something|If You See Something, Say Something]], [[wiki/Line-Officer SAR Training|Line-Officer SAR Training]], [[wiki/Civilianized Collection by Design|Civilianized Collection by Design]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].