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Feature Article: New Guidebooks Help Urban Communities Install Low-Cost Sensors to Reduce Flood Risks
DHS S&T released “Low Cost Flood Sensors: Urban Installation Guidebook” to do just that—help communities deploy and operate low cost sensors for flood monitoring and management.
News Release: IPAWS Program Planning Toolkit New Resources
FEMA, in coordination with DHS S&T, has released the “Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Program Planning Toolkit.”
News Release: S&T Provides Critical Chemical Hazard Support for Major Storm
With Hurricane Sally expected to make landfall on Tuesday, the DHS S&T Chemical Security Analysis Center (CSAC) is providing critical chemical hazard support.
Virtual Events: Managing Security Risks Today and Beyond
S&T is hosting a series of virtual discussions this fall, focusing on how science, technology, and partnerships are needed to achieve common objectives to protect people, commerce, and infrastructure.
News Release: DHS Awards Colorado Small Business to Develop On-Body Power Module
DHS S&T awarded $1 million to Colorado-based small business TDA Research, Inc. to develop a power module that would service all of the current and emerging requirements of on-body devices for first responders through the DHS SBIR Program, administered by DHS S&T.
Feature Article: S&T TSL Evaluates Artificial Intelligence
DHS S&T's TSL is evaluating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities that have the potential to improve TSA’s ability to better protect our air transportation system and everyone that relies on it.
News Release: ST New Prize Competition for User Interface for Digital Wallets
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is calling upon innovators to design a better user interface (UI) for digital wallets. DHS’s new prize competition is for better Trusted UI for Digital Wallets with a total prize purse of $25,000. The winning designs will be easy-to-use, trustworthy and improve the overall user experience and management of digital wallet-based credentials.
News Release: ST Seeks Explosives Trace Detectors
Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information on handheld, portable, and desktop explosives trace detectors (ETDs) that can analyze wipe samples collected from surfaces of packages, baggage, automobiles, or other objects
September is National Preparedness Month 2020
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) strives to stay at the leading edge of innovative solutions to challenging technical problems. Using this year’s National Preparedness Month weekly themes as a guide, I’d like to take the opportunity to highlight some S&T programs worthy of a merit badge for the contributions they’ve made to our nation’s preparedness.
Feature Article Firstaid Severe Trauma FAST online trainings
More than 250 high school teachers were recently certified to become provisional instructors for the First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST)TM program, which trains high school students to stop bleeding and treat injuries before first responders arrive to an incident.
Press Release: DHS to Support Machine Learning Development for Airport Security
Synthetik Applied Technologies was awarded funding to develop machine learning training data that simulates human travelers and baggage object models to support machine learning algorithms.
News Release: DHS Funds Research to Model Compound Flood Events
Deltares will develop a community-oriented, flood hazard modeling process using open source data, models and software.
Feature Article: S&T Transitions ETD Technology to DARPA
DHS S&T transitioned technology to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that is representative of S&T’s deep body of work in cataloging, detecting and thwarting explosive threats.
Feature Article: B4PS App Allows Seamless Frontline Communication
Bridge 4 Public Safety is a free app to that allows for interoperable, secure collaboration and communication during response efforts.News Release: S&T Seeks COVID-19 Temperature Screening Technology
DHS S&T released a request for information to identify potential vendors, manufacturers and distributors with technologies for non-invasive febrile temperature screening to meet the needs of first responders and protective services as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
S&T’s New Virtual Reality
DHS S&T will be participating in the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) Virtual, from August 24 to 27, with CISA.
Surveying Technology Landscape for Temperature Screening
While there are many mass screening technology methods used to detect a variety of threats, the ability to rapidly screen for fevers has quickly become one of the most important tools in the world’s fight against COVID-19—one that the DHS S&T is proud to support.
News Release: DHS S&T Innovation Programs Share Partnership With Start-Up
DHS S&T SVIP and the DHS SBIR program are leveraging their innovative funding mechanisms to further develop a critical cybersecurity technology from CryptoMove, Inc., a start-up based in Oakland, California.
Happy 230th Birthday, Coast Guard!
DHS S&T helps the Coast Guard better fulfill all of its missions by also striding with progress, leveraging research and development (R&D) breakthroughs to keep citizens safe and overcome ever-evolving threats to our climate and national security.
News Release: S&T, DOT Select Universities to support 911 Comms
DHS S&T, in partnership with DOT, has selected the CIRI, a DHS COE led by the UIUC, to develop a framework and process for testing the interoperability and compatibility of Next Generation 911 (NG911) systems.
News Release: DHS Awards $1.97M to Small Businesses for First Responder ICAM Technology
DHS SBIR Program awarded a total of $1.97 million to two small businesses to develop technologies that will support the security, scalability, and interoperability within a first responder organization’s information technology infrastructure.
Feature Article: S&T, EPA are Helping Coast Guard Prepare to Clean Up Following an Anthrax Attack
S&T and EPA collaborate in a joint project to help the Coast Guard decontaminate assets after a bioterrorist attack.
News Release: S&T Releases Solicitation to Address Emerging Covid-19 Response
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, DHS S&T is seeking groundbreaking solutions to address current and future operational needs.
Feature Article: Preparing State and Local Leaders for an Explosive Attack
S&T’s CSAC is developing a modeling tool called Homeland Explosive Consequence and Threat (HExCAT) that estimates the hazard and related human health consequences from thousands of plausible scenarios.
Feature Article: S&T Helps Bring USCGA Innovations to Front Lines of COVID-19 Response
S&T Helps Bring U.S. Coast Guard Academy Innovations to Front Lines of COVID-19 Response, including a 3D printed face mask and unique ventilator design.