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ST-Harris County - NGFR Case Study: Sensor and Event Alerts

This case study describes how DHS S&T identified and applied sensor and event alerting standards during the NGFR – Harris County Operational Experimentation (OpEx), taking real-time data from numerous sensors, assessing it against pre-established thresholds, displaying it on unified situational awareness applications, and issuing alerts when the sensor readings exceeded the thresholds. 

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ST-Harris County - NGFR Case Study: Sensors

This case study describes how DHS S&T integrated sensors during the NGFR – Harris County Operational Experimentation (OpEx), taking real-time sensor data and displaying it on unified situational awareness applications to give the Incident Commander, command staff and first responders the right information at the right time.

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News Release: S&T Announces Winner in the $250K Escape Respirator Challenge

DHS S&T today announced the grand prize winner of the Escape Respirator Prize Challenge.

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Snapshot: New Water Cannon Technology a Breakthrough for Bomb Squads

DHS S&T, in partnership with the FBI, has fully transitioned ReVJeT tool to each and every one of the hundreds of state and local bomb squads across the country through the FBI’s Hazardous Device School.

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Snapshot: Helping State and Local Canine Teams be REDDI for Anything

S&T’s team of experts has traveled all over the nation to bring REDDI to state and local law enforcement agencies.

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News Release: DHS S&T to Evaluate Select Wildfire Sensor Technologies

DHS S&T selected four new industry partners to participate in a new wildfire sensors workstream of the Smart Cities Internet of Things Innovation (SCITI) Labs.

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Snapshot: ResponderCQ Measures Disaster Resilience & Response

DHS S&T funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “Capability Quotient (CQ),” which is the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.

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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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ST - First Responder FY 18-19 Capability Gaps

 The capability gaps or Statements of Objectives (SOO) developed as a result of these meetings help determine how S&T engages with business, industry, innovation and academia partners, and ultimately how S&T provides first responders the tools they need to protect communities and stay safe while performing their duties.

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S&T Combatting Human Trafficking Through Social Science Fact Sheet

DHS S&T seeks to address the growing problem of human trafficking through social science-based research.