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In Their Own Words: Testimonials

Firefighters share stories from their own experiences about why POINTER is so vital, how it works, and how this technology will save lives.

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S&T’s 2021 Wrapped

An analysis of our top content for 2021 reveals what topics resonated most with our audiences.

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News Release: S&T Seeks Information on Body Cameras with Automatic Activation

DHS S&T released a RFI seeking information on commercially available body cameras that feature the ability to automatically begin recording based on sensors triggered by surrounding events.

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News Release: S&T Funds Interoperable Messaging Capability for First Responders

Award to Mobility 4 Public Safety will advance the development of the Bridge 4 Public Safety messaging and collaborating platform. 

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News Release: S&T Releases Solicitation Aimed at Continuing to Improve Wellness of DHS Workforce

Topic call seeks technologies and methods for resilience and wellness tools to identify and resolve issues before reaching crisis levels. 

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Feature Article: New Fentanyl Detection Standards Protect First Responders

The newly published standards will be put into effect almost immediately through a S&T-led research and development effort with PNNL.

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News Release: Joint U.S. and Israeli Partnership Funds in Homeland Security Technologies

The Israel-U.S. BIRD HLS program awarded funding for two collaborative projects to develop advanced homeland security technologies in the areas of multimedia communications systems for first responders and a mid-air conflict management system for manned and unmanned aircraft.

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DHS & NATO Wrap Up Disaster Management Project

DHS S&T, in partnership with NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, concluded a four-year project with a final disaster management exercise in North Macedonia.

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S&T Mapping of 5G Technologies and Use Cases

This report was developed to provide a current look at 5G technological trends, specifically those that will most significantly impact DHS customer components’ missions. 

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S&T 5G Mobile Broadband Impacts and Recommendations

To assess impacts of 5G on the public safety community, OIC-TC tasked the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL) to employ a deep dive approach to investigate specific 5G technologies which will enable information sharing at the incident area “edge” network.