Fact Sheets Collection
Short documents with information about a particular issue or topic.
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First Responder Resource Group Big City Fire Working Group Fact Sheet
The Big City Fire Working Group (BCF) brings together representatives from 12 of the largest fire departments in the United States, as measured by number of stations and operational personnel. BCF members are senior leaders who understand the highest priorities of their departments and collaborate to identify and discuss the needs and challenges of fighting fire in dense urban settings. The S&T's NUSTL convenes and manages the BCF in support of the Directorate’s first responder portfolio and is responsible for setting strategy, executing process and identifying potential research, development, test and evaluation opportunities associated with the group.
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Monkeypox Virus (mpox) Factsheet
A fact sheet about the Monkeypox virus with the basic information you should know related to transmission, symptoms, protection, and actions to take if you have been exposed or are symptomatic.
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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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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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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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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.
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Wildfire Sensor Technology Fact Sheet
Wildfires across the U.S. and around the world are becoming more frequent, costly, and dangerous. DHS S&T is working with the U.S. Fire Administrator, N5 Sensors Inc., TechNexus, and the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation to develop and test early wildfire detection technology to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state and local emergency management partners.