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This Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019 Annual Report summarizes completed program and project milestones, collaboration and outreach, mission services, laboratory operations and organizational successes of the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL).
DHS S&T is announcing that the QuickRoute app is available for responders to download.
The automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology captures images of license plates and allows law enforcement agencies to identify and compare plates against those of cars driven by people suspected of being involved in illegal activities.
DHS S&T today announced it awarded more than $1.5 million to develop an Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) Guidance Tool.
The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation is announcing awards for two collaborative projects totaling $1.5 million to develop advanced homeland security technologies in the areas of threat detection and 3D mapping.
S&T and NASA JPL successfully tested the Precision Outdoor and Indoor Navigation and Tracking for Emergency Responders (POINTER) technology at the Veteran’s Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
DHS S&T teamed with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop POINTER, a groundbreaking first responder tracking technology that uses magnetoquasistatic fields to three-dimensionally locate responders during emergencies—especially when visibility is low due to heavy smoke or debris. With POINTER, incident command can pinpoint team members within one meter.
Under development - DHS S&T and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL), POINTER is a precision positioning sensor system that locates first responders.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communication Research Group (PSCR), in research sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, has been studying IoT devices for first responders to determine how these devices can be utilized to meet the needs of the first responder in the field.