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DHS/S&T/PIA-042 DHS Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors federally funded research and development centers (FFRDC). The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) FFRDC Program Management Office (PMO) oversees and manages access to these specialized services in systems engineering, integration, studies, and analysis. The FFRDC services can be accessed by DHS components; external federal, state, and local government; non-governmental organizations and institutions; universities and affiliated research centers; and other public sector and private sector groups, through the PMO. S&T conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to address the Department’s FFRDC program as well as two specific FFRDCs (i.e., Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center [HSOAC] and Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute [HSSEDI]) and the privacy risks associated with the collection, use, maintenance, and dissemination of personally identifiable information (PII), privacy sensitive projects and activities, and use of DHS-accredited information systems.

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DHS/S&T/PIA-041 Office of Industry Partnerships Portal (OIP Portal)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Office of Industry Partnerships (OIP) manages a public-facing, standalone web portal (OIP Portal). The OIP Portal allows members of industry to submit proposals for Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) for DHS Research and Development (R&D)-related subjects, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP). S&T is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to address the OIP Portal’s collection, use, maintenance, and dissemination of personally identifiable information (PII).

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DHS/CBP/PIA-010 Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI)

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI) system provides enhanced search and analytical capabilities to identify, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who pose a potential law enforcement or security risk, and aids in the enforcement of customs, immigration, and other laws enforced by DHS at the border. Since the original Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), CBP has increased technical safeguards in AFI; added a new user role, additional DHS users, and additional data sources; and developed a governance process that includes the operational and oversight components of CBP. CBP has continued to update the AFI PIA to address Privacy Compliance Review (PCR) recommendations and to promote transparency regarding new users, data sources, data access, and analytic functions of AFI.

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DHS/ALL/PIA-090 Team Awareness Kit (TAK)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for providing services and technologies to protect its workforce while increasing operational capabilities and enabling mission fulfillment. To this end, DHS has has enhanced and deployed Team Awareness Kit (TAK), a government-off-the-shelf application that enables near real-time location monitoring and display with operational personnel carrying devices.

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DHS/I&A/PIA-001 Public-Private Sector Analytic Exchange Program (AEP)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) acts as an Executive Agent for the Public-Private Sector Analytic Exchange Program (“AEP” or “the Program”) on behalf of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The purpose of the AEP is to provide intelligence community (IC) and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (FSLTT) intelligence analysts the opportunity to engage with volunteer private sector analysts to better understand select national security and homeland security issues. All participants are selected through a competitive application process. AEP participants work to create unclassified joint analytic deliverables of interest to both the private sector and the U.S. Government. I&A is publishing this privacy impact assessment (PIA) because I&A collects personally identifiable information from individuals applying to, and selected for, the AEP in order to verify their U.S. citizenship, facilitate entry into federal buildings, facilitate reimbursement of their travel expenses, and enable access to federally-maintained information technology platforms used to facilitate public-private collaboration.

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DHS/USCG/PIA-031 COVID-19 Data Analytics

The purpose of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) COVID-19 Data Analytics program ("COVID-19 Operational Software Suite") is to minimize USCG operational impacts (e.g., workforce readiness, COVID-19 Vaccine Support) during the COVID-19 pandemic. USCG is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to assess the privacy risks and mitigations of collecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Sensitive PII (SPII) associated with implementing the COVID-19 Operational Software Suite.

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Demographic Variation in the Performance of Biometric Systems

Since 2014, DHS S&T has performed scenario testing of biometric systems, to measure their performance across diverse demographic groups. 

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News Release: DHS Announces Results of 2020 Privacy Technology Demonstration

DHS S&T hosted a first-of-its-kind event to understand the product landscape of technologies that can assist in protecting the privacy of individuals appearing in photos and videos.

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DHS/CWMD/PIA-002 Biological Detection for the 21st Century (BD21) Technology Demonstration (TD)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Systems Support Directorate has been tasked and funded to evaluate networked biological detection and presumptive identification equipment for the purposes of informing the next generation detection of airborne bio-threats, as well as to recapitalize the BioWatch Program. To fulfill these responsibilities, CWMD is developing the Biological Detection for the 21st Century (BD21) Program. CWMD will install biological detection equipment at certain locations/sites as sensor nodes in various configurations. Each node is comprised of biological sensors, Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a communications unit, meteorological sensors, and cameras, which are monitored and operated remotely (where possible). The sensor nodes capture environmental data and camera video/images which are transmitted to CWMD’s secure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for the purpose of developing algorithms and evaluating performance of the technologies. CWMD is conducting this PIA to evaluate the privacy risk associated with the use of this technology.

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DHS/OIDO/PIA-001 Immigration Detention Case Management System

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO or Office) is an independent office responsible for objectively and impartially reviewing cases submitted by, or on behalf of, individuals affected by potential misconduct, excessive force, violations of rights of individual detainees, or violations of law, standards of professional conduct, contract terms, policy related to immigration detention, or detention standards that occurred while in immigration detention by DHS officers, or other contracted, subcontracted, or cooperating entity personnel. Thereafter OIDO seeks to resolve the matter or provide redress as appropriate.