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Biometric Data Collection and Verification System

This technology includes a system and method to quickly and accurately validate biometric information.

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Extreme Weather: Opportunities for Improved Preparedness and Resilience

This report is built on a DHS Science and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joint workshop hosted at the University of Oklahoma National Weather Center in February 2024 to examine policy, mission, science, and technology requirements to support homeland security, emergency management and public safety missions in the face of extreme weather.

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Addressing the Nation's Wildfire Problem: An S&T Roadmap

As climate conditions are becoming hotter and drier, wildfires have grown more intense and destructive across much of the United States. The public safety challenges from wildfires are most acute in the area known as the wildland urban interface where lives and infrastructure are at most risk. Addressing the nation’s wildfire problem will invariably involve bridging different cultures of fire safety and risk that have traditionally been separate and developing a mix of social and technological innovations and ecosystem services to enable better wildfire mitigation and firefighting practices.

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Earth Systems Science: Key Themes, Trends, and Emerging Concerns

Our Earth system is facing a multitude of challenges across a variety of threat vectors. Identifying, characterizing, quantifying, and addressing these risks remains difficult. Threats like climate change pose existential risks but are not well understood from an integrated systems and safety and security perspective. This paper will cover a few themes that should drive our thinking and research agenda on resilience, disaster preparedness, and climate change and be factored into our calculus going forward.

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The Right Way to Go About Working with Startups

Technologically Speaking host Deepak Saini sits down with Silicon Valley Innovation Program Managing Director Melissa Oh to discuss the unique ways S&T engages with the startup community, the vision behind driving innovation in the private sector to benefit the nation’s security, and how being positioned inside Silicon Valley enables her to bridge the private-public sector divide. 

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Department of Homeland Security Core Ontology for Maritime Domain Awareness Fact Sheet

The objective of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Core Ontology for Maritime Domain Awareness effort is to provide DHS with the base of a semantic framework, in the form of a DHS Core Ontology, a Maritime Domain Awareness Ontology, and a Computational Analytic Ontology. ​The semantic framework will be an evolving part of the DHS data architecture enabling the functionality to create data that is integrated, familiar and trusted.​ The base framework will enable evolution by having a core ontology of DHS terms which are then reused to create interoperable ontologies covering the numerous and diverse domains of interest to DHS.

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P25 CAP ISSI CSSI Conf SDOC Template

P25 vendors must submit a Supplier's Declaration of Compliance (SDOC) to P25 CAP in order for the vendor's equipment to be posted on the P25 CAP Approved (Grant-Eligible) Equipment webpage.

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P25 CAP ISSI CSSI Interop SDOC Template

P25 vendors must submit a Supplier's Declaration of Compliance (SDOC) to P25 CAP in order for the vendor's equipment to be posted on the P25 CAP Approved (Grant-Eligible) Equipment webpage.

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Electrostatic Reactivity Testing Device and Method

A safety testing system to determine material reactivity to electrostatic discharge.

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Feature Article: How S&T Supports the Next-Generation Emergency Operations Center

With the Community Lifeline Status System, emergency managers can now easily communicate with teams and maintain data-informed situational awareness through every stage of planning, response, and recovery.