"Staffed with personnel from the Departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Joint Analysis Center (JAC) will provide status tracking for the United States Government Global Nuclear Detection Architecture. With a direct conduit from the alarm source to national assets for spectrum analysis, the Joint Analysis Center will provide 24/7 response for radiological alarm resolution and provide the capability to marry intelligence, illicit activity, and threats with a known radiological architecture that will provide total situational awareness to decision makers. The JAC facilitates the USG Interagency Nuclear Decision Protocols to adjudicate nuclear detection events. Situational Awareness: The JAC achieves situational awareness through visibility into deployed components, access to information, and historical data. Information is received from deployed radiological/nuclear detection assets, radiological/nuclear related events, the global nuclear detection architecture, the NRC and Agreement State Material Licensing Data, and historical data on all detection events, illicit and legitimate". (DHS, DNDO: JAC, 2007)