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Fact Sheets
Short documents with information about a particular issue or topic.
FOIA Library
DHS maintains FOIA libraries for itself, the Office of the Secretary (including the Military Advisor’s Office and the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs), and the following components: CISOMB, DNDO, ESEC, FEMA, MGMT, NPPD, OHA, OGC, OLA, OPA, PLCY, and TSA.
Policy, Strategy and Doctrinal Products
Documents relating to a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim, and the related guidance issued to department components and offices.
Reports
Official documents released by the department after investigating or researching a given topic.

Date	Title
October 17, 2019	Cycle of Warning: Public Response Fact Sheet This document helps to comprehensively outline the full ecosystem of an Alert, Warning, Notification (AWN) from the perspective of the general public. View resource publication
October 17, 2019	Cycle of Warning: Alert Origination Fact Sheet This fact sheet and its compendium report on Cycles of Alerting bring the full ecosystem into focus with modern guidance for alert originators. View resource publication
October 17, 2019	Alerts Warnings and Notifications Cycles of Warning The report on Cycles of Warning is to provide public safety officials with timeless and actionable alerting guidance. View resource publication
October 16, 2019	Advanced Decision Support for Public Safety Fact Sheet To help address the need to reduce preventable distracted driving incidents, DHS S&T has partnered with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) to apply a system engineering approach for employing an Advanced Decision Support to help reduce preventable distracted driving incidents. View resource publication
October 10, 2019	Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 OPA Internship Application The DHS Office of Public Affairs (OPA) is seeking applicants for the Office of Public Affairs Internship Program. View resource publication
October 10, 2019	Emergency Vehicle Alert for Civilians and Responders Fact Sheet DHS S&T has funded a project to develop Responder to Vehicle (R2V) and Responder to Responder (R2R) Emergency Vehicle Alerts. To purpose of these alerts will be to provide a way for first responders to supplement their audio and visual emergency alerts with a digital one. View resource publication
October 9, 2019	Resumes of Political Appointees since March 23, 2017 Resumes for individuals who entered into a position at DHS as “political appointees” and career employees who have been detailed into a leadership office or component front office since March 23, 2017. View resource publication
October 3, 2019	Fact Sheet: DHS Agreements with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador In recognizing the push and pull factors which cause irregular migration to the U.S., DHS has entered into agreements and arrangements with the countries of the northern region of Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, to further expand asylum capabilities and improve safety, security, and prosperity throughout the region. View resource publication
September 30, 2019	Next Generation First Responder Configuring A Raspberry Pi Location Sensor How To Guide This how-to guide provides installation and configuration instructions of the PiPoint location software for a Raspberry Pi computer that was demostrated as part of the Spiral 2 technology exercise. View resource publication
September 30, 2019	Social Media Emergency Management Guidance Tool Fact Sheet The SMEM Guidance Tool is a free, online tool that provides users with a simple, step-by-step line of questioning to create plans to improve their organization’s SMEM operations. View resource publication

Date

Title

October 17, 2019

Cycle of Warning: Public Response Fact Sheet

This document helps to comprehensively outline the full ecosystem of an Alert, Warning, Notification (AWN) from the perspective of the general public.

View resource publication

October 17, 2019

Cycle of Warning: Alert Origination Fact Sheet

This fact sheet and its compendium report on Cycles of Alerting bring the full ecosystem into focus with modern guidance for alert originators.

View resource publication

October 17, 2019

Alerts Warnings and Notifications Cycles of Warning

The report on Cycles of Warning is to provide public safety officials with timeless and actionable alerting guidance.

View resource publication

October 16, 2019

Advanced Decision Support for Public Safety Fact Sheet

To help address the need to reduce preventable distracted driving incidents, DHS S&T has partnered with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) to apply a system engineering approach for employing an Advanced Decision Support to help reduce preventable distracted driving incidents.

View resource publication

October 10, 2019

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 OPA Internship Application

The DHS Office of Public Affairs (OPA) is seeking applicants for the Office of Public Affairs Internship Program.

View resource publication

October 10, 2019

Emergency Vehicle Alert for Civilians and Responders Fact Sheet

DHS S&T has funded a project to develop Responder to Vehicle (R2V) and Responder to Responder (R2R) Emergency Vehicle Alerts. To purpose of these alerts will be to provide a way for first responders to supplement their audio and visual emergency alerts with a digital one.

View resource publication

October 9, 2019

Resumes of Political Appointees since March 23, 2017

Resumes for individuals who entered into a position at DHS as “political appointees” and career employees who have been detailed into a leadership office or component front office since March 23, 2017.

View resource publication

October 3, 2019

Fact Sheet: DHS Agreements with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador

In recognizing the push and pull factors which cause irregular migration to the U.S., DHS has entered into agreements and arrangements with the countries of the northern region of Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, to further expand asylum capabilities and improve safety, security, and prosperity throughout the region.

View resource publication

September 30, 2019

Next Generation First Responder Configuring A Raspberry Pi Location Sensor How To Guide

This how-to guide provides installation and configuration instructions of the PiPoint location software for a Raspberry Pi computer that was demostrated as part of the Spiral 2 technology exercise.

View resource publication

September 30, 2019

Social Media Emergency Management Guidance Tool Fact Sheet

The SMEM Guidance Tool is a free, online tool that provides users with a simple, step-by-step line of questioning to create plans to improve their organization’s SMEM operations.

View resource publication

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