the nfca urges the subcommittee to continue to support the secretary's efforts to focus funding on programs that support the analysis and sharing of homeland security threat information. that includes the sustainment of a strong national network of fusion centers. fusion centers helped transform the way federal, state and local and travel governments share intelligence information to protect the homeland just as envisioned by the 9/11 commission and the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004. fusion centers analyze the national threat information at a local context, past chris call state and local information up to federal partners and intel general community and dem nature relevant actual information state and local decision makers and all this has done while protecting privacy, civil liberties and civil rights. fusion centers are owned and operated and budged at the state and local level. a sustainment mod that will works in boston may not work in my hometown of montgomery. for example, the alabama fusion center budget was $800,000 in fy-11. 40% of that came from the sta