HSPD-9 dated 30 January 2004 and HSPD- 10 dated 21 April 2004 directs DHS to establish a National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) to provide early detection and situational awareness of biological events of potential national consequence by acquiring, integrating, analyzing, and disseminating existing human, animal, plant, and environmental biosurveillance system data into a common operating picture (COP) that represents a comprehensive depiction of the global biosurveillance security environment (GBSE). The National Biosurveillance Group (NBSG), comprising of representatives from all member agencies, will integrate and analyze all-agency/source biosurveillance information to recognize unusual biological events and provide situational awareness to the NBIS community and decision-makers through the development of a biosurveillance COP (BCOP) and targeting reporting. The BCOP will augment the DHS National Operation Centers COP, which provides a consistent, integrated picture of biosurveillance situational awareness throughout the country. The NBIS will facilitate collaborative interagency analysis to ensure fully-integrated biosurveillance situational awareness and provide near-real time awareness to the Incident Management Group (IMG) and the DHS National Operations Center (NOC). The resulting improved information sharing and enhanced situational awareness facilitates national decision-making to enable timely response. (DHS, DHS Exhibit 300 Public Release BY09 NBIS (2009), 8Feb08)