Fact Sheets Collection
Short documents with information about a particular issue or topic.
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Low-Head Dam Alerting for Rescuer Safety Fact Sheet
DHS S&T will provide a readily accessible toolset to help First Responders identify low-head dam (LHD) hazards and promulgate potential alerting and life-saving information. This effort will deliver freely accessible, user-friendly toolboxes to help investigate public safety at low-head dams, enable modelers to consider site-specific conditions and alerts of potential hazards, and deliver an updated version of the national LHD inventory, estimated at over 13,500 sites.
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Partnership Intermediary Fact Sheet
A partnership intermediary (PI) is a state or local government, or a non-profit entity owned/funded/ chartered/operated in whole or in part by a state or local government that assists, counsels, advises, evaluates or otherwise cooperates with small business firms and educational institutions.
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Alternative Energy for Boats Fact Sheet
DHS S&T Alternative Energy for Boats project will develop a prototype that has an electric battery powering two electric outboard engines. The battery will be capable of charging from alternating current (A/C) power, eliminating the need to build charging infrastructure and enabling boats to charge anywhere there is standard electric power available.
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Developing Innovative Research for Improving U.S. Levees and Dams Fact Sheet
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) partners with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE-ERDC) to research and assess communities’ vulnerabilities to flood hazards, to increase community resilience by improved emergency response planning, and simulating different types of failures to different components of flood infrastructure systems.
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Ammonia Port Preparedness and Emergency Response Fact Sheet
AmPPER will enable the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to provide critical information on ammonia storage and its potential impact on ports and surrounding communities. Through data-driven mitigation and resilience recommendations, we empower the U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA, and emergency response communities to enhance preparedness.
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Maturing DHS Institutional Risk Analysis Capabilities Fact Sheet
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate identified three goals to advance institutional risk analysis capabilities to support the Department's resilience and readiness programs. This effort is expected to provide DHS with research and analysis intended to inform risk analysis qualifications and training guidelines to enable a stronger, better-informed futures cadre at DHS.
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Open Geospatial Consortium Strategic Partnership Fact Sheet
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will, as a member, build a strategic partnership with the Open Geospatial Consortium, allowing DHS to gain insight into innovative global climate change adaption and resilience research. This knowledge helps better inform DHS climate research and development initiatives.
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Social Equity Data Needs and Its Access and Availability to Support the Disaster Resilience of Marginalized Communities Fact Sheet
One of the most enduring findings in disaster and climate change research is that socially marginalized communities are disproportionally more at risk from environmental hazards, and thus, less likely to recover fully and quickly. A community plan aimed at resilience could allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to pro-actively identify support for mitigation based on community needs, with equity as its foundation.
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First Responders Technologies Fact Sheet
First responders at federal, state, local, and tribal levels are crucial in managing a variety of emergencies, ranging from pandemics and natural disasters to civil disturbances, terror attacks, and routine criminal activities. They need a wide array of capabilities to effectively respond to these challenges, which are constantly evolving due to new threats and environmental changes.
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Chemical Security Analysis Center – Ammonia Safety and Training Institute Cooperative Research and Development Fact Sheet
CSAC entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Ammonia Safety and Training Institute in July 2022.The goal of the collaboration was to use modeling to improve emergency response and conversely to allow emergency response needs to drive improved modeling and model development.