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All news and updates for the Department of Homeland Security – blogs, press releases, events, fact sheets, speeches, testimonies.
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The following releases were posted in 2015.
DHS S&T's Automated Driver and Responder Alert System aims to drastically reduce the number of first responders killed or severely injured when they are struck by vehicles that fail to slow down or avoid incident scenes.
Balancing speed and security at checkpoints, like airports, is essential to ensuring safe, reliable travel. Many of these checkpoints are increasingly using biometric technology to improve speed and reliability. While recent improvements in biometrics have lowered failure to match rates, many systems fail to quickly acquire biometric information in the first place.DHS S&T's first Biometric Technology Rally aimed to eliminate these obstacles by testing face and face/iris recognition systems.