2018 Press Release Archives
The following releases were posted in 2018.
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2018 Blog Archives
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Wildland Urban Interface Emergency Alerting
Reliable emergency alerting remains an essential tool for all emergency hazard responses in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). This is why DHS S&T and FEMA are leveraging industry partners and state and local first responders to develop new methods for putting emergency alerts into technologies like mapping and navigation applications during emergencies.
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Next Generation Explosives Trace Detection Project Fact Sheet
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Next Generation Explosives Trace Detection project is developing research and development solutions to provide Transportation Security Officers and explosive specialists across the homeland security enterprise with state-of-the-art explosives trace detection and identification capabilities.
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Port & Coastal Surveillance Project Fact Sheet
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) established the Port & Coastal Surveillance Project within its Maritime Safety and Security Program to identify, develop, and transition technologies to improve Maritime Domain Awareness, such as integrating sensors and platforms (including autonomous ones), information sharing technologies, mission support tools, and decision support capabilities. Its efforts will benefit DHS and our federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, international, public, and private port partners.
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Finding Common Ground for Disaster Response
As the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season opens, learn about an S&T collaborative tool that will help agencies conduct more effective and efficient response operations.
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Any Place Where People Congregate
The final episode of Technologically Speaking Season Two delves into the world of soft target security with S&T’s Ali Fadel. Host Dee Saini chats with Ali about what a soft target is (hint: check out the episode title), how S&T is collaborating with agencies at every level of government to keep venues and civilians safe, and promising new technologies being used to get the job done—including barriers recently deployed to Kansas City for the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Designing TVTP Pre- and Posttests
This brief provides an explanation on how to design TVTP pre- and posttests to Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grantees.
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S&T Announces Track 2 of the Remote Identity Validation Tech Demo Challenge
DHS S&T announces the launch of Track 2 of the Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration (RIVTD).
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Improving the Current Fleet
In this episode, host John Verrico chats with S&T’s Robert Klueg from our Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) about how the lab is servicing the existing fleet of screening systems—a key part of the Screening at Speed Program. In part two of our two-part series on the program, John and Robert discuss new technologies that will make the screening process both quick and secure and reflect on the origins of TSL following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Be sure to listen to part one, “300 People Per Hour Per Lane,” that explains the Screening at Speed program, how it got started and where it’s going in the future.