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The fusion process is an overarching method of managing the flow of information and intelligence across levels and sectors of government to integrate information for analysis.[1] That is, the process relies on the active involvement of state, local, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies—and sometimes on non-law enforcement agencies (e.g., private sector)—to provide the input of raw information for intelligence analysis. As the array of diverse information sources increases, there will be more accurate and robust analysis that can be disseminated as intelligence.

The two ways are the one way to global.

The age of technology of information is like the sun shining on all attributes that were before technology were always in the dark.

The oldest information collecting was bloodlines, today is it similar. There is a term for this that is very old, some call it a gift of the spirit that comes over people to do so.