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As technology advances, First Responders are presented with a growing suite of increasingly sophisticated sensors and communication tools that provide vital, up-to-the-minute situational awareness information about their surroundings, location and status of nearby First Responders, and personal well-being. For example, programs such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Apex Next Generation ...

Existing blockchain implementations do not include features required for an effective, decentralized and scalable identity management solution. Although current public (permissionless) blockchains provide rigorous, self-incentivizing primitives to ensure the integrity, availability, and non-repudiation of events, they often intentionally eschew confidentiality features as anathema to the consensu ...

Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S), a leader in advanced PNT technology, proposes to develop a personal First Responder navigation and tracking system for use in GPS-limited or denied environments. The system will Track First Responder motion with inertial-based pedometry combined with visual odometry Have a modular and scalable architecture to incorporate, but not rely on, other aidin ...

The Public Safety Community (Community) would like to share information between jurisdictions, but need to trust with a reasonable certainty that the users viewing this information are who they say they are. Similarly, the Federal government and other organizations need to be reasonably sure that their new users are accessing the right information online. Identity proofing a user, either remotely ...

Next Generation First Responders, also known as NGFRs, will carry more battery powered sensors and IoT to wirelessly connected devices beyond cellphones, radios, and peripheral PPE devices, with their 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 Respon ...

Gun-launched applications currently expose inertial measurement units (IMUs) to harsh acceleration, shock, and vibration environments. Furthermore, as they become smarter, they present tighter constraints on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), while still requiring high levels of performance. New accelerometer technology must reduce SWaP-C while operating through high-g acceleration environmen ...

Mission times for high velocity projectiles (HVP) are very short and detection and discrimination of targets must happen quickly and decisively. One way to achieve this is through the enhanced contrast resulting from polarized sensing, which tends to highlight manmade objects and suppress natural background clutter. Thermal polarimetric sensing in a small package has been demonstrated already but ...

The capability to reliably and remotely detect and track tactical surface targets in a high-velocity projectile after launch is a critical need. The discrimination of man-made objects can be assisted by the detector technology, with options including two-color detectors and polarimetric filtering in the thermal infrared bands. The level of complexity in the focal plane array affects its survivabil ...

In gun-launched projectile applications, the launch accelerations are harsh and can be up to 50,000 g. In order to enable capability to operate in both high shock and aerothermal conditions, FIRST RF has developed compatible antenna technology. Prototypes of these sensors have been fabricated and validated to similar shock and thermal conditions. Additionally, as with all small weapons, space is v ...

The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) of OSD is leading a program to demonstrate a Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) Gun Weapon System (HGWS) within the DoD. Emerging missile threats are highly agile, exhibit unpredictable behavior and are often protected by sophisticated counter-measures. To support the deployment of HVP weapon systems for defense against these threats, a comprehensive multi-targ ...