S&T FRG Spring 2015 SAVER Newsletter
The Spring 2015 SAVER Newsletter provides the responder community with the latest information on the projects and activities of the SAVER Program.
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The Spring 2015 SAVER Newsletter provides the responder community with the latest information on the projects and activities of the SAVER Program.
The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) curates the following information on grants resources and training opportunities offered by government agencies to support the first responder community.
S&T works hand-in-hand with first responders across disciplines to identify their technology needs and capability gaps, and then partners with research and development organizations, academia, industry, and the innovation community to develop solutions. The following technologies were envisioned and field-tested by first responders and are now available for agencies to procure.
Helping law enforcement stop the flow of illicit funds across the border.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) relies on experienced emergency response and preparedness professionals to guide its research and development efforts. The First Responder Resource Group (FRRG) fills that role.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is researching technologies that can prevent or limit flooding in transportation tunnels. Initially, S&T focused on solutions that can be deployed in subway tunnels. Additional engineering will be needed to address the needs of major highway tunnels, as well as other key nodes of transit systems.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have partnered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the wireless industry to create a national alert and warning capability that distributes Presidential alerts, AMBER alerts, and imminent threat alerts (e.g., hurricanes and tornadoes, where life or property is at risk) to mobile devices, including cellular phones and pagers.
When first responders need reliable information about equipment, technologies and systems to inform their procurement decisions, their first stop should be the System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) program. Established and managed by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), SAVER provides objective, practitioner-relevant, and operationally focused assessments and validations of commercially available, emergency response equipment. The results of the assessments enable responders to better select, purchase, use and maintain emergency response equipment.
REDOPS is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) program that supports public safety bomb technicians. The program provides a collaborative structure for addressing IED response and defeat capability gaps identified by federal, state and local bomb technicians, including the National Bomb Squad Commander’s Advisory Board (NBSCAB).
Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) Fact Sheet and Video from S&T with the Department of Commerce Public Safety Communications Research program.