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Every day, the El Paso sector is
responsible for staffing 11

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Border Patrol stations and seven
checkpoints covering 125,000

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square miles and 264 border
miles of hot, desolate desert

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environment.

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Heat stress is a major concern
in the Border Patrol because

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there's extreme temperatures.

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US Customs and Border Protection
agents are on the front lines of

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the war against terrorism and
drug trafficking.

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Working in often brutal
conditions.

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Heat stress is a constant
danger, one of the biggest

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factors that we have to worry
about working in the field that

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here at the checkpoint as well.

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We have a lot of issues of just
the heat radiating off of that

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pavement and just blasting us
with all its fury, and it's

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something that we constantly got
to be vigilant with.

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The Silicon Valley Innovation
Program is harnessing promising

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commercial technologies to
protect health and improve

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performance.

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At 90 degrees Fahrenheit,
productivity will go down almost

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30%.

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Our technology is a wearable
device.

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It's worn on the upper arm of
the individual, completely

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lightweight, very easy to wear.

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There is an alert that tells you
if you're too hot, and you also

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get an alert when you have
returned to a safe working

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condition.

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Agents within the United States
Border Patrol will push

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themselves to their physical
limits every single day.

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To have those precursor
indicators to let them know that

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they may be deviating outside
their norms is a tremendous

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added value that will benefit
them on a daily basis.

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I worry more from my partner.

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She can't tell me he's
dehydrated 2 He has that big old

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fur coat on.

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In addition to human performance
and resiliency, SVIP is

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advancing a project designed to
monitor canine health.

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This is Araya.

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She is a Malinois Dutch Shepherd
mix.

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Basically the same breeds that
CBPDHS and a lot of these

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agencies use.

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She is wearing one of our smart
harnesses.

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It has temperature sensors,
heart race sensors, respiratory

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sensors, GPS, accelerometers
where it will communicate with

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the smart device or the smart
watch and it will relay all that

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information immediately from
anywhere the canine is.

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You can view it live data, or if
somebody at HQ wants, they can

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see all the assets at the same
time.

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The outcome is important, but
speed is incredibly crucial to

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our team.

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That was the mandate to deliver
capability and to deliver

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capability fast.

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SVIP identifies and engages
nimble companies on the cutting

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edge of innovation at speed.

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We're trying to take wearable
sensors, take that data and

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infuse it with context and then
ultimately provide actionable

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insights that can be used both
personally but also kind of from

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the standpoint of an enterprise
level for the DHS leadership to

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really have an assessment of
safety performance readiness.

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What I love about working with
start-ups is that they're so

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hungry and they'll bend over
backwards to meet the mission

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need and a lot of credit goes to
SVIP because they were such

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great partners and stakeholders
at the beginning and continues

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today.