S&T FFRDC PMO Fact Sheet
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) act as a vehicle for special research and development contracting within the Federal Government.
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Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) act as a vehicle for special research and development contracting within the Federal Government.
The Critical Incident Management Technology Assessment (CIMTA) will provide urban first responders with an opportunity to assess emerging technologies in a realistic, urban, large-scale critical incident response exercise to enhance their response effectiveness.
When firefighters need rescue due to a medical or other emergency, fire department protocols and technologies help get them out, quickly and alive.
The public voice network has become the target of many attacks, including Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS), robocalls (automated telephone calls), SWATing (anonymously filing police reports to provoke a police raid) and bomb threats. TDoS is a flood of malicious inbound calls that target public-safety response systems such as 911. The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD) is working to shift the advantage from a DDoS attacker to the network administrator by developing the capability to authenticate callers and detect fraudulent call spoofing.
Of the 114 programs on the Department of Homeland Security Master Acquisition Oversight List, 48 are subject to Director, Office of Test and Evaluation oversight.
Building confidence on homeland security technologies and enabling unity of effort through standardization
Homeland Security Operators expect new systems to work. Acquisition decision makers and program managers are responsible for conducting test and evaluation to determine if the capability under development satisfies the user's need in accomplishing their missions.
Two branches of one "systems thinking" team facilitate effective acquisitions.
How is CBP AMO using the Predator B to perform missions?
ERAD Prepaid Card Reader article, "Freezing Assets - New technology helps law enforcement seize funds hidden on criminals’ prepaid cards". January / February 2017.