# Vetted Civilian Intelligence Network **Entity class:** Concept or operational method **Domain:** Reporting ## Definition A participation network admits members through checks appropriate to its information-sharing role. Vetting, membership identity, and operational trust let civilian specialists contribute to national awareness. ## 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/Personnel Vetting|Personnel Vetting]]. - **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. - [KrebsOnSecurity, FBI's Vetted Info Sharing Network 'InfraGard' Hacked (December 2022).](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/InfraGard|InfraGard]]. 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]].