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Our team has conducted a Phase 1 feasibility analysis of developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to augment and integrate into currently available biological aerosolized detectors in support of DHS and its BioWatchProgram.The BioWatch program was stood up in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003.The program currently operates in more than 30 metropolitan jurisdictions and p ...

IoT devices expose greater security risks due to their limited resources, lack of security functions and maintenance. There is a fast-growing trend for cyber-attacks exploiting IoT system vulnerabilities. software based IoT security solutions cannot meet the stringent requirements of real-time detection high accuracy, and low performance overhead. Our goal is to a multi-level hardware-assisted thr ...

The threat posed by chemical agents extends beyond Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) and Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) and has evolved to include lower volatility materials referred to as Non-Traditional Agents (NTAs). Similarly, illegally distributed and manufactured opioids, known collectively as pharmaceutical-based agents (PBAs), pose significant risk to emergency response teams and law enfor ...

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 ...

Natural, extreme climate change, and human-induced disasters bring together teams of scientists and practitioners supported by several agencies, such as NOAA, NASA, EPA, and FEMA. These scientists and practitioners work at monitoring for conditions leading to, working through, and recovering from disastrous events. They currently use state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting hazardous gases an ...

Increased situational awareness and information sharing/availability, both in the field and in remote departments and agencies, is one of the main DHS objectives in today’s operations.It applies to all levels of commands.Attempts have been made to use tracking devices for detecting and continuously updating the positional data of friendly assets on a map.Many commercial applications and systems ...

Chemical agents, including conventional warfare agents (CWAs) and evolving Non-Traditional Agents (NTAs), continue to pose a security threat. Pharmaceutical Based Agents (PBAs) are of growing concern - these chemicals can be procured or produced by non-State actors. This class includes fentanyls and analogues, as they are highly lethal through inhalation or contact with mucous membranes. These low ...

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 ...

N5 Sensors proposed to develop a non-thermal screening device to enable real-time breath analysis for viral infection in non-clinical settings. The approach is based on the use of N5’s chip-scale chemical sensors configured into a low-cost, portable system. The concept, Rapid Infection Screening via Exhalation (RISE) will distinguish different respiratory pathogens including those of viral or ba ...

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 ...