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Last Updated: March 30, 2022 | Fact Sheets

FACT SHEET: DHS Preparations for a Potential Increase in Migration

The Department of Homeland Security works to secure and manage our borders while building a fair and orderly immigration system.

Last Updated: May 25, 2021 | Publication

S&T Safe Handling and Collection of Electronics Factsheet

The Science and Technology Directorate is currently working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop a downloadable application—Safe Handling and Collection of Electronics, or “SHAKE”—that provides users with information and techniques to safely collect drones from the field.

Last Updated: April 20, 2021 | Publication

S&T Air Domain Awareness and Protection of the National Airspace System Factsheet

CBP must achieve the following objectives in securing the border: detect illegal entries into the United States, identify and classify those entries to determine the level of threat involved, efficiently and effectively respond to those entries, and bring each event to a satisfactory law enforcement resolution.

Last Updated: December 9, 2020 | Publication

S&T FRG Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Fact Sheet

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)'s First Responder Resource Group (FRRG) has identified light weight, conformable power for communications equipment, sensors, and overall body-worn electronic devices as a high priority for first responders.

Last Updated: October 22, 2020 | Publication

ST CAP Factsheet

The CAP fact sheet provides program overview and impacts.

Last Updated: October 13, 2020 | Publication

S&T Wearable Smart Chemical Sensor Morphix Fact Sheet

DHS S&T is working with Morphix Technologies to develop a simple, inexpensive, wearable smart chemical sensor badge that has high sensitivity and selectivity to multiple toxic industrial chemicals at trace (low parts per million or ppm) concentrations, and that triggers alarms at permissible exposure limits, short-term exposure limits and time weighted average concentrations.

Last Updated: May 13, 2020 | Publication

ST-SARS-CoV-2 Indoor Environmental Stability Predictive Model Fact Sheet

The current model shows the effects of temperature and relative humidity on the virus while suspended in respiratory droplets, on surfaces.

Last Updated: October 31, 2019 | Publication

ST-Explosive Threat Mitigation Unit - Portable, Cost-Effective, Blast Mitigation for Small IED Threats

The objective of the TMU project is to provide the DHS customer with safe, secured storage of items obtained from visitors passing through a security checkpoint in the event that an item contains an explosive-based threat.

Last Updated: October 29, 2019 | Publication

ST First-Aid-for-Severe-Trauma-Training

The First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST) training program will provide no-cost trauma training for high school students through the American Red Cross.

Last Updated: October 17, 2019 | Publication

ST-Cycle of Warning Public Response Fact Sheet

This document helps to comprehensively outline the full ecosystem of an Alert, Warning, Notification (AWN) from the perspective of the general public.