S&T A National Strategy for CBRNE Standards
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National Science and Technology Council committee on Homeland and National Security
S&T worked with the emergency response and recovery communities to identify the need for mobile water treatment systems in the field, and will evaluate solutions proposed by the private sector under the SECURE program.
The Plum Island Memorandum for the Record assesses the Plum Island site alternative based on the same evaluation criteria used in the Final Selection Memorandum.
The Preferred Alternative Memorandum documents the agency’s preferred alternative for NBAF.
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.
S&T is developing the NexGen threat detection system for TSA passenger checkpoints.
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.
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.
S&T is working on automated high-speed, high-performance checked baggage explosives detection systems for acquisition by the TSA.
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.