# United States Department of Homeland Security **Domain:** Austin Research / Institutions **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. The **United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)** enters the Austin cluster through the 2009 sensor/social-network terrorism-detection grant and later biometric-identity research recorded in [[wiki/Suzanne Barber|Suzanne Barber]]’s CV. These are specific sponsored connections linking network observation, threat reasoning, and identity. The 2009 award supplies the master addendum’s explicitly requested DHS bridge; the later OBIM project supplies another application in the same investigator’s research history. The node organizes those named relationships rather than treating all surveillance or pandemic work as DHS activity. Each project retains its sponsor, dates, and evidence separately. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Suzanne Barber|Suzanne Barber]] · [[wiki/Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks|Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks]] · [[wiki/Office of Biometric Identity Management|Office of Biometric Identity Management]] · [[wiki/Multi-Use Inference and Control|Multi-Use Inference and Control]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [K. Suzanne Barber — UT curriculum vitae, p. 29](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]] <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD --> ## Regional information-sharing interface The surveillance-field essay adds a second, operationally distinct DHS connection: the [[wiki/DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service|LEIS Service]] lists **LEAP (NCTCOG)** among existing MOU partners and describes access to selected DHS person records through [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]]. Austin’s regional participation instrument supplies the municipal entry path. This is a named federal interface, alongside the previously documented university grant history. [[wiki/Homeland Security Information Network|HSIN]] supplies a separate watchlist-notification route documented by GAO. The 2009 research award, LEIS queries, and HSIN notifications retain their own program identities and authorities. **Follow:** [[wiki/Law Enforcement Analysis Portal|Law Enforcement Analysis Portal]] · [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]] · [[wiki/BioWatch|BioWatch]] **Source:** [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]]; [DHS — Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service briefing, slides 4–16; existing MOUs on slide 15](https://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-LEISS.pdf); [City of Austin — LEAP interlocal agreement, recitals and §§2–7](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=176641); [GAO-26-108650 — Terrorist Watchlist, January 12, 2026; Appendix II, pp. 37–38](https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108650.pdf). <!-- END AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD -->