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MCARDLE: Training and planning are essential to the Border Patrol mission,
as it allows us to more effectively deploy and utilize our resources.
DHS Science and Technology Directorate plays a vital role for the U.S. Border Patrol,
as it allows us to focus on our core security mission,
while they focus on new and emerging technologies.
Together, the United States Border Patrol and DHS Science and Technology Directorate
are strengthening the security of America's borders.
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CARTWRIGHT: The DHS Science and Technology Directorate helps TSA accomplish its mission
by helping us realize our capability goals and our end state,
and collaboratively we work together to realize those operational goals.
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WATT: Working together with S&T is important to CPB's mission because
it's essential we have the right tools and the right environments to do the job to complete our mission.
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate helps CPB accomplish its mission by
providing the most up-to-date, latest technology available for our office's use to complete their mission.
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GUDDEMI: The DHS Science and Technology Directorate plays a critical role in preparing first responders
to accomplish their mission by gathering requirements and finding solutions
to the threats that we face today and the threats that we'll face in the future.
S&T works closely with responders from across the country to develop and evaluate
new technologies that adress current and emerging needs.
With the increasing threat from natural and man-made disasters
it's essential for first responders and S&T to work together to find solutions that help communities
prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the effects of disasters of all types.
MACMILLAN: The DHS Science and Technology Directorate helps the Coast Guard in preparing for its missions and doing its missions
through its research and development efforts to help us look at emerging capabilities
and other important avenues for us to both improve our services and deliver a greater value to the taxpayer.
Working together with S&T is essential to the Coast Guard's missions
because we need to counter emerging threats, we need to leverage enduring technologies and emerging technologies,
and S&T helps us develop and deploy those out to the field.
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HENTZ: DHS Science and Technology Directorate has realigned its workforce and processes
to better serve our partners in the public and private sectors.
From systems engineering, to test and evaluation, to transition and commercialization.
S&T and our customers work together...
MCARDLE: Together... CARTWRIGHT: Together... WATT: Together...
GUDDEMI: Together... MACMILLAN: Together... HENTZ: Together...
BRYAN: And together, we can support agencies at all levels of government
in our shared mission to secure our country and the American people.
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