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Reports Collection

Official documents released by the department after investigating or researching a given topic.

  • CSAC FY2023 Annual Report

    As part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Chemical Security Analysis Center (CSAC) is the nation’s only federal study, analysis and knowledge management center for assessing the threat and hazard(s) associated with an accidental or intentional large-scale chemical event or chemical terrorism event in the United States.

  • Optimizing Radioactive Contamination Screening at Community Reception Centers Report

    The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) prepared the “Optimizing Radioactive Contamination Screening at Community Reception Centers Report” to provide emergency response organizations with technical guidance for deploying CRC radiation detection equipment to optimize screening efficiency. 

  • DHS FY2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grantee Evaluation: Life After Hate Site Profile Report

    DHS S&T funded RTI International to research and evaluate a Fiscal Year 2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant to Life After Hate to examine program accomplishments, challenges, and recommendations.

  • DHS FY2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grantee Evaluation: University of Denver’s Colorado Resilience Collaborative (CRC) Site Profile

    DHS S&T funded RTI International to research and evaluate a Fiscal Year 2020 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant to University of Denver’s Colorado Resilience Collaborative (CRC) to examine program accomplishments, challenges, and recommendations.

  • DHS S&T’s Homeland Security Startup Studio: 2022 Cohort Overview Report

    DHS S&T HSSS: 2022 Cohort Overview Report provides detailed program information, project milestones and metrics, collaboration efforts, and outcomes of the 2022 Startup Studio cohort.

  • Detection of Presence of Life (DePLife) Prototype Operational Field Assessment Report

    A technology that detects the presence of life (people) through building walls and displays their location and movement would be a game-changing tool for SWAT teams, giving them valuable situational awareness before breaching a room. Similarly, this technology would be invaluable to law enforcement officers searching for kidnapping or human trafficking victims. DHS S&T awarded a contract to MaXentric Technologies, LLC (MaXentric) to develop three radar sensor Detection of the Presence of Life (DePLife) prototypes.

  • Gunshot Detection System Operational Field Assessment Report

    Responders need a portable, intuitive technology that can be set up quickly and alert them of shooting incidents instantaneously and provide them critical information ahead of their on-scene arrival.  DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) funded the research and development of a portable outdoor Gunshot Detection System (GDS) with the intention of improving emergency response time and identifying shooter locations. The GDS consists of Guardian outdoor gunshot detection sensors and Guardian Gateway (GW) and situational awareness (SA) applications.

     

  • Remote Alarm Accessory for Radioactive Contamination Screening at Community Reception Centers

    Following a radiological release, whether from an accident or a terrorist act, local response agencies can set up community reception centers (CRCs) to screen the public for radioactive contamination. Before people enter a CRC for final screening, they would be prescreened using personal radiation detectors (PRDs) while they stand on a small platform with another PRD under it to detect radioactivity on their shoes. Because the shoe-screening PRD is hidden beneath the platform, that PRD’s alarm light cannot be seen and CRC personnel must rely on its audible alarm. Unfortunately, the platform muffles the alarm sound, making it hard to hear in a noisy environment.

  • Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grantee Evaluation Reports

    Please find evaluations of TVTP grantee project results and implementation.

  • 2023 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR)

    Released in 2023, the Third Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) assesses the threats and challenges the Department faces today and into the future and lays out the approaches DHS and the homeland security enterprise are adopting to carry out its missions.