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The ability to navigate complex, dense X-ray images with occluded objects and superposition of potential threats presents a significant challenge for air cargo screeners.Explosive detection and threat interdiction is also challenging due to the varied ways threat actors conceal and disguise illicit activity.These factors work to reduce screening efficiency and throughput, as skids must be broken d ...

There is a lack of specific, low-cost, rapid, sensitive, fieldable detection systems for animal/zoonotic disease that can simultaneously test for multiple diseases in a single test. State of the art field-detection kits for animal diseases consist mainly of ELISA test kits and PCR devices. However, both these techniques can only test for a single disease per test, thus screening for multiple disea ...

There is a lack of specific, low-cost, rapid, sensitive, fieldable detection systems for animal/zoonotic disease that can simultaneously test for multiple diseases in a single test. State of the art field-detection kits for animal diseases consist mainly of ELISA test kits and PCR devices. However, both these techniques can only test for a single disease per test, thus screening for multiple disea ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) frontline personnel face enormous challenges to identify counterfeit State licenses in an operational setting. With printing technology continuing to advance and become more affordable, it is no surprise that United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Fraud Document Analysis Unit (FDAU) has seized an exponentially increasing number of high-quality count ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) frontline personnel face enormous challenges to identify counterfeit State licenses in an operational setting.Visible and covert security features have been replicated and simulated by counterfeiters, so they do not appear anomalous.Intelligent Payload Solutions has developed an Intelligent Document Fingerprint (IDF) that can be added to existing State and oth ...

The DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Screening at Speed (SaS) program is a major program within S&Ts Transportation Security Administration (TSA) portfolio that addresses TSA Strategic Priorities and the Transportation Security Capability Analysis needs. A key element of the SaS program is the pursuit of an integrated curb-to-gate security system of systems to enable TSAs future comprehensive secu ...

Bioaerosols, including viruses, bacteria and toxins, are a threat to human life, socioeconomic stability and national security.A sensitive, accurate, field-deployable detection system capable of rapidly identifying multiple aerosolized pathogens would be a strong defense, but collecting a representative sample of all relevant airborne particles can be challenging because biological particles range ...

The implementation of Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) provides an opportunity to make Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) more effective through improved situational awareness and operational / incident coordination. With these opportunities come the challenge of guarding against misleading information and malicious actors. This proposal describes an approach to address these issues to create a ...

Detection of explosives and illicit drugs at strategic points such as airport terminals and borders remains a critical part of the DHS's mission to ensure the nation's security and safety. For explosive trace detection (ETD), the emphasis on speed without compromising sensitivity requires inNvation in the sampling step as it dictates to a large extent how quickly an analyzer can perform its functi ...

Next Generation First Responders (NGFRs) will carry more battery powered sensors and wirelessly connected devices (cellphones, radios, heads up displays, and physiological sensors), which will have a range of power requirements and charging connectors. Requiring first responders to track battery levels and recharge multiple devices would distract from their missions. A Power Module for First Respo ...