5-13. Fusion centers improve dynamic operational support by integrating the mission command approach together with focused analysis and other partners within a single centralized entity. A fusion center is an ad hoc collaborative effort between several units, organizations, or agencies that provide resources, expertise, information, or intelligence to a center with the goal of supporting the operations of each contributing member. They are primarily designed to focus collection and promote information sharing across multiple participants within a set geographic area. These centers are not operations centers. Commanders at various echelons create fusion centers to manage the flow of information and intelligence; focus information collection to satisfy information requirements; and to process, exploit, analyze, and disseminate the resulting collection.