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Warner: The SAVER program
came out of the

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Federal Emergency Management
Act back in 2003

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when first responders were purchasing

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commercial off-the-shelf technology
at an alarming rate

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and not knowing exactly what they needed
and why they needed it.

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The SAVER program exists
to provide information for first responders

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to procure, use and maintain
commercial off-the-shelf technology.

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In 2015 we accomplished a lot.

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We looked at project areas across fire,
law enforcement and chemical hazmat teams.

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For fire, we provided a
wildland firefighting personal

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protective equipment technology
selection guide.

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For law enforcement we looked
at body worn cameras.

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And for the chemical hazmat guys
we looked at portable color metric tubes.

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The three main types of products
that SAVER puts out are

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tech notes, market survey reports
and assessment reports.

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Tech notes are very short and they just
provide a broad overview of a technology

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and how that may be important
to a jurisdiction.

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Application notes go into a
little bit more detail

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and show the different use cases
for how they would actually use the technology.

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And then assessment reports
are a week-long event where we bring

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first responders to use technology
and provide their assessments of it.

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2016 is a very exciting year
for the SAVER program.

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We're going to be looking at
individual officer kits that prevent severe trauma.

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We're going to be looking at
portable infrared spectrocity chemical detectors

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so first responders can identify chemicals
at a stand-off distance.

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And we're also going to be looking at

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hearing protection integrated
into the helmets of firefighters.

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My favorite part of being
the SAVER program manager

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is when a first responder comes
up to me and says,

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hey, I read this thing that
the SAVER program did

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and it influenced our decision
to purchase something.

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That's when I know that
what we do is valuable.