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Science and Technology

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is the Department’s primary research and development arm and manages science and technology research, from development through transition, for the Department's operational components and first responders.

  • FINAL Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

    DHS S&T prepared this Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (Draft FONSI) to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment relating to the abandonment in place of an existing undersea utility cable and the installation of a new undersea utility cable between Orient Point, NY, and the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) on Plum Island, NY, located 1.5 miles northeast of Orient Point (Proposed Action). 

  • Environmental Assessment of Proposed NYC Simulant Particle Releases for the Viral Phenomenology Program

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) plans to conduct a scientific study on aerosol behavior in New York City buses and subway trains. A special focus of the study will be tests of various methods to mitigate the potential spread of aerosols in buses and subway trains.

  • S&T FRG APCO 2017 Booklet

    Download the APCO 2017 Booklet below.

  • S&T FRG August 2017 P25 CAP AP Meeting Agenda

    Download the August 2017 Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) Advisory Panel (AP) Meeting Agenda below.

  • S&T FRG August 8 P25 CAP Webinar Agenda

    Download the P25 CAP August 8, 2017, agenda below.

  • S&T FRG CAUSE II Joint Report

    The goal of the joint Action Plan is to build upon the existing perimeter approach to security and economic competitiveness and thereby lead to security enhancements and an accelerated flow of people, goods and services.

  • S&T 2014 Year in Review

    The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate 2014 Year in Review.

  • DHS/FEMA/PIA-008 First Responder Training System (FRTS)

    DHS/FEMA/PIA-008 First Responder Training System (FRTS)

  • IND Health and Safety Planning Guide

    The Health and Safety Planning Guide for Planners, Safety Officers, and Supervisors for Protecting Responders Following a Nuclear Detonation provides response planners, safety officers, and supervisors with specific information and recommendations to protect responders from the effects and impacts of an extreme event: a 10 kiloton (KT) improvised nuclear device (IND) within the first 72 hours of a detonation.

  • S&T FRG Industry Response to Encryption Requirements CAB

    DHS OIC, with permission from each manufacturer, is making the correspondence received available. The manufacturers’ correspondence explains, in each manufacturer’s own words, the process each manufacturer is using to bring its equipment into compliance with the Encryption Requirements CAB and the process each manufacturers’ customers would follow to ensure the equipment they are going to purchase or have already purchased would be or would be made P25 CAP Compliant. If you have specific questions about the processes outlined in a letter please contact the respective manufacturer.  If you have questions about the Encryption Requirements CAB please contact P25CAP@hq.dhs.gov.