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Narrator: The First Responders Group within the
United States Department of Homeland Security

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Science and Technology Directorate, is
committed to using cutting-edge technologies

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and scientific talent in its quest to
make America safer. As part of this,

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the program researches and organizes scientific,
engineering, and technological resources

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and leverages these existing
resources into products to help protect the homeland.

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These efforts are focused on mission capability
gaps identified by the Nation's emergency

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response community. The goal is to
develop a product or technology

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based on the emergency responder
requirements for safety, quality,

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reliability, and maintainability-- and
to promote quick transition of these products

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and technologies to the commercial market.
One such mission capability gap addresses

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the need for quick evaluation and decision
making in response to bomb threat

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incidents. DHS Office for Bombing Prevention
Bomb Threat Stand-off cards are

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historically used to help responders
establish safe evacuation distances. By

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leveraging emerging smartphone and tablet
technology, Applied Research Associates,

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Incorporated, developed the First
Responder Support Tools Bomb Response

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Application to provide an alternative
to the Bomb Threat Stand-off Cards.

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Once an incident is placed, the FiRST application
quickly calculates and displays incident

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distances, and rough damage and
injury contours. It also displays optimized

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roadblock locations for incident isolation
and multiple categories of points of Interest.

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All of this information is annotated in
Google maps and the map and incident

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information is easily distributed by email
or text message to other responders.

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The application also provides IED
and HAZMAT guidelines, reference

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information, and points of contact for
questions and assistance.

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Tom Jones: There are several things I like
about the app. Obviously, it gives you several

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selections of the size of the IED, but
it also gives you the blast pattern, the

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the glass shatter, the injuries, the death
pattern where that is always guesswork

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in the past. Plus it also gives you
the mapping of the street locations.

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And of course, with the Google maps,
it also gives you other building names and whatever else.

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So if there are schools nearby, or other
type of hazard areas, they will be identified in the mapping.

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Narrating: All of the FiRST applications
capabilities were developed

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to address key requirements identified
by the responder community. This technology

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is supported by the National Bomb
Squad Commanders Advisory Board and the DHS

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Office of Bombing Prevention. For
more information regarding this technology,

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please visit the Firstresponder.gov website.