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System of Systems Operational Analytics

SoSOA is being designed to be a virtual desktop environment for collaborative operational analyses that enables complex, timely, mission-focused decisions across DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SoSOA supports decision makers by combining the right data, tools, and training to enhance analytic capabilities DHS-wide.

Snapshot: S&T and HSI Collaborate on Technologies to Save Children from Abuse and Exploitation

DHS S&T and DHS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Cyber Crimes Center (C3), Child Exploitation Investigations Unit are collaborating on automated recognition programs that can help comb through the seized materials.

Innovative Training Improves Aviation Security

ScreenADAPT®, a collaborative research and development effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and TSA, is just one of several projects S&T has developed that is now in operational use with DHS components and first responders.

S&T-Funded Tools Help Get Ahead of Storms

The HV-X platform integrates forecast and planning data to provide emergency managers with decision support tools for use in advance of and during tropical weather.

Snapshot: S&T helps create the next USCG Cutter Polar Ice Breaker

S&T’s Office of Standards understood the need to gather in-depth data to determine how to construct the next-generation icebreaker. To do that, they needed to see, first hand, how changes to the current construct reacted to ice.

S&T FRG RDD Response Guidance Planning for the First 100 Minutes

This document and accompanying video provides actionable guidance, sample text for an RDD response protocol, and annexed tools that can be used for local planning of an effective response to an RDD to protect first responders and the general public, and establish interagency coordination and integration of state and federal assets.

Securing Surface Transportation

Surface transportation such as subway systems can be a unique security challenge due to the large crowds of travelers and the open, unstructured environment. Public safety officials (including mass transit operators, mass transit police, and state and federal law enforcement teams) need a capability to detect potential threat items on persons and in bags without negatively impacting the speed of travel. S&T is developing technology to meet this challenge with the Surface Transportation Explosive Threat Detection Program, helping provide a layered, integrated capability to detect and mitigate the explosive threat at the speed of the traveling public.

S&T "Can Your Response Robot Really Do That?" Fact Sheet and Video

When a first response task is too dangerous for humans, due to an ongoing threat, unstable physical surroundings, or other hazardous conditions, robots may provide a mission-capable alternative. Capable robots save lives.

S&T NUSTL Urban OpEx Fact Sheet

Urban Operational Experimentation (OpEx) Hosted by the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory Fact Sheet and Video

We Are DHS Textual Description Transcript

The Department of Homeland Security ensures that our Nation and its people are safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.

This transcript provides text descriptions for the We Are DHS video.