"HSPD-9 dated 30 January 2004 and HSPD-10 dated 21 April 2004 directs DHS to establish a National Bio surveillance 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 bio surveillance system data into a common operating picture (COP) that represents a comprehensive depiction of the global bio surveillance security environment (GBSE). The National Bio surveillance Group (NBSG), comprising of representatives from all member agencies, will integrate and analyze all-agency/source bio surveillance information to recognize unusual biological events and provide situational awareness to the NBIS community and decision-makers through the development of a bio surveillance COP (BCOP) and targeting reporting. The BCOP will augment the DHS National Operation Center's COP, which provides a consistent, integrated picture of bio surveillance situational awareness throughout the country. The NBIS will facilitate collaborative interagency analysis to ensure fully-integrated bio surveillance 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 BY08, February 12, 2007, p. 1)