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Snapshot: CBP Officers Leverage S&T-Developed Imposter Detection Training Tech
CBP’s OFO Academy at DHS S&T and FLETC Training Innovations Division (TID) developed a new technology that uses eye tracking feedback to maximize officer performance in impostor identification and ID validation training.
News Release: DHS Selects University of Nebraska Omaha to Lead Terrorism Research
DHS S&T announced today the selection of the University of Nebraska Omaha to lead a consortium of U.S. academic institutions and other partners for a new COE for Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research (TPCR).
Snapshot: Helping State and Local Canine Teams be REDDI for Anything
S&T’s team of experts has traveled all over the nation to bring REDDI to state and local law enforcement agencies.
World Radio Day
Today, in honor of World Radio Day, we’re taking a look at how this oh-so-useful-part of our electromagnetic spectrum is serving the mission of securing our homeland.
Snapshot: Assessing Respirators for The Coast Guard Special Ops
DHS S&T is committed to ensuring that all of our responders have the tools they need to do their jobs safely and securely—including reliable personal protective equipment that won’t let them down when it matters the most.
News Release: DHS S&T to Evaluate Select Wildfire Sensor Technologies
DHS S&T selected four new industry partners to participate in a new wildfire sensors workstream of the Smart Cities Internet of Things Innovation (SCITI) Labs.
Snapshot: S&T and FEMA Social Media Emergency Management Guidance Tool
The SMEM Guidance Tool will increase first responder and emergency managers’ ability to deliver messages to the public before, during, and after an incident.
Snapshot: Protecting our Northern Border with the Slash CameraPole
DHS S&T partnered with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and several private companies to create the Slash CameraPole.
Snapshot: Expanded Version of the Information Sharing Assessment Tool Now Available
Newly updated with optional scenarios and expanded question sets, the ISAT is a web-based self-assessment tool that helps public safety agencies understand their current information sharing capabilities and gaps.
News Release: S&T Awards Minority Serving Institutions $373K to Advance Summer Research Team Projects
DHS S&T announced that eight faculty members from Minority Serving Institutions across the United States were recently selected to receive funding awards totaling $373,000 to continue their 2019 SRT Program for Minority Serving Institutions research projects at several DHS S&T COE.
News Release: S&T Selects Georgia Tech Group to Improve Info Sharing & Safeguarding for Public Safety Comms
DHS S&T awarded a $704,000 research-and-development (R&D) contract to Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Applied Research Center (GTARC) to address a crucial gap in the trustmark framework for the public safety community’s information sharing and safeguarding (IS&S) capabilities.
DHS @ CES 2020: Seeing and Securing the Future Now
CES allowed DHS to experience the technology marketplace in new and different ways, while also providing many opportunities to learn about how technology is disrupting different industries and business models.
News Release: S&T Awards $750K for Cybersecurity of Emergency Communicators
DHS S&T awarded $750,000 to SecuLore Solutions, an Odenton, Md.-based cybersecurity company, to improve and increase the resiliency of the nation’s emergency communications infrastructure, including Next Generation 911 (NG911) technologies.
News Release: S&T Leads Smart City Tech Integration Pilot
DHS S&T conducted its final integration of smart city technologies this week in St. Louis, Missouri in collaboration with the city, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the T-REX Innovation Center (T-REX).
Snapshot: S&T-Funded SABER Helps Communities Get Back to Business
Available both on the web and via a mobile app, SABER provides users with a means to upload and share real-time business status information with other organizations, particularly government aid entities such as FEMA, during an emergency or crisis.
News Release: DHS Awards $197K for Digital Credentials That Work Offline
DHS S&T has awarded $197,020.95 Phase 1 funding to Stranger Labs, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA, to develop a digital credential solution that mitigates compromising the usability and convenience of paper-based credentials by making digital credentials verifiable offline.
News Release: S&T and Israeli Partners Announce Awards
The Israel – U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation today announced three awards for collaborative projects totaling $2.3 million to develop advanced technologies for the homeland security mission.
Snapshot: ResponderCQ Measures Disaster Resilience & Response
DHS S&T funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “Capability Quotient (CQ),” which is the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.
Kicking off 2020 with a Clear Vision
S&T has big goals, some of which I’ve outlined here, that will serve as a roadmap for the year ahead.
News Release: SBIR 20.1 Solicitation Open for Proposal Submission
Small businesses are now able to submit proposals for DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 20.1 Solicitation to address nine homeland security technology needs.
Happy Holidays from S&T
S&T has accomplished many great things this year to better DHS Components and our nation’s first responders and here are a few of my favorite things.
News Release: Prize Winners Announced in $1.55M Opioid Challenge
Today, DHS S&T, the White House ONDCP, CBP, and USPIS announced the grand prize winner and runner-up in the Opioid Detection Challenge, a $1.55 million global prize competition for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids in international mail.
Snapshot: Rapid DNA Identifies Conception Boat Fire Victims
DHS sought a technology that can quickly analyze DNA to verify family relationships (kinship) and identify victims of mass casualty events and human trafficking.
Snapshot: K9 Responders Join Team Active Shooter Scenarios
Canines are widely used by law enforcement agencies and first responders to protect the homeland in various ways.
Snapshot: S&T and CBP Host the Havre Sector Field Experiment
As part of the HSE’s ongoing efforts to address these vulnerabilities, DHS S&T and USBP conducted a field test at USBP Havre Sector, held in Sweetgrass, MT.