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Snapshot: Expanded Version of the Information Sharing Assessment Tool Now Available

Newly updated with optional scenarios and expanded question sets, the ISAT is a web-based self-assessment tool that helps public safety agencies understand their current information sharing capabilities and gaps.

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News Release: S&T Selects Georgia Tech Group to Improve Info Sharing & Safeguarding for Public Safety Comms

DHS S&T awarded a $704,000 research-and-development (R&D) contract to Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Applied Research Center (GTARC) to address a crucial gap in the trustmark framework for the public safety community’s information sharing and safeguarding (IS&S) capabilities.

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ST-Interworking Mission Critical Push-to-Talk between LTE and LMR Report

(DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), under its Small Business Innovation and Research program, funded Catalyst Communications Technologies to examine the feasibility of developing a standards-based interworking solution that would enable communications between Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems; and communications between different LMR systems.

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S&T CREATE Fact Sheet

CREATE’s mission is to improve the Nation’s security through the development of advanced models and tools for the evaluation of the risks, costs, and consequences of terrorism and to guide economically viable investments in homeland security.

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S&T CRC Fact Sheet

The CRC conducts research and education to enhance the resilience of people, infrastructure, economies, and the natural environment from the impacts of coastal hazards such as floods and hurricanes.

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S&T P25 CAP Aug. 8, 2018, Meeting Agenda and Summary

The agenda and summary of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate's Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program Advisory Panel meeting for Aug. 8, 2018.

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S&T Digital Volunteer Program Guide Fact Sheet

To support agencies that are looking to launch and maximize the benefits of a digital volunteer program, S&T developed a Digital Volunteer Program Guide.

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Snapshot: Intergovernmental cooperation enhances comms, maritime awareness

Recent tests integrating commercial and government capabilities is making tactical communications between international and interagency law enforcement operators safer and more reliable. 

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S&T Arctic Communications and Technologies Fact Sheet

The Arctic Communications and Technologies program is a multi-year effort within the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate  that will identify and evaluate appropriate terrestrial and space-based solutions to extend and enable U.S. Coast Guard operations in the Arctic.

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P25 CAP

Congress legislated the P25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) to ensure that LMR equipment complies with P25 standards for interoperability across suppliers.