S&T Next Generation Passenger Checkpoint Program Fact Sheet
S&T is developing the NexGen threat detection system for TSA passenger checkpoints.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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S&T PIADC Fact Sheet
PIADC has served as the front line of the nation’s defense against diseases that could devastate markets for livestock, meat, milk, and other animal products.
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S&T NBACC Fact Sheet
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is the first national laboratory created by the Department of Homeland Security.
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S&T HSSEDI Fact Sheet
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 authorized the DHS Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to establish one or more federally funded research and development centers to provide independent analysis of homeland security issues, or to carry out other responsibilities under the Act. In 2009, the MITRE Corporation was selected to operate the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI) FFRDC.