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Research

Last Updated: August 21, 2015 | Publication

S&T Preferred Alternative Memorandum

The Preferred Alternative Memorandum documents the agency’s preferred alternative for NBAF.

Last Updated: August 19, 2015 | Publication

S&T NGCI Fact Sheet

The NGCI Apex project addresses challenges by providing the financial services sector with the technologies and tools to confront when advanced adversaries attack cyber systems and networks.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Next Generation Passenger Checkpoint Program Fact Sheet

S&T is developing the NexGen threat detection system for TSA passenger checkpoints.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Surface Transportation Program Fact Sheet

The Surface Transportation Explosive Threat Detection Program’s goal is to provide the surface transportation end-user community with a layered and integrated capability to safely detect potential threat items in unstructured crowds, while maintaining individual privacy.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T HEIDM Program Fact Sheet

One of the Department of Homeland Security’s top priorities is the development and improvement of homemade explosives detection technologies. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate assists the Transportation Security Administration in determining the smallest amounts of homemade explosives materials that screening technologies can possibly detect.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Checked Baggage Program Fact Sheet

S&T is working on automated high-speed, high-performance checked baggage explosives detection systems for acquisition by the TSA.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Air Cargo Program Fact Sheet

Since the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, the TSA must ensure that 100 percent of cargo on all passenger flights in the United States is screened. To assist, the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is characterizing the air cargo environment (cargo, contamination and facilities), assessing new and modified screening systems, and developing new and advanced screening and detection tools and technologies. New technologies must screen more effectively without impacting the efficient flow of air cargo.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T RecX Fact Sheet

S&T partnered with the electric utility industry and the Office of Infrastructure Protection to initiate the Recovery Transformer (RecX) project.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Office of National Laboratories Fact Sheet

DHS S&T ONL develops and utilizes a coordinated network of DHS and DOE national laboratories to deliver enduring capabilities vital to DHS and the national homeland security mission.

Last Updated: July 31, 2015 | Publication

S&T Trace Explosives Detection Systems Standards Fact Sheet

S&T partnered with NIST to develop calibration materials (trace explosive simulants) and methods to improve detector performance for both current and evolving threats.