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The Publication Library contains guidance and policy papers, reports, strategies, program regulations, guidelines, brochures and more.

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  • Disaster Recovery Project Area Fact Sheet

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) Community and Infrastructure Resilience Program initiated the Disaster Recovery Project to develop new processes, products, and standards that will improve operations and outcomes for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. 

  • Flood Project Area Fact Sheet

    The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) launched the Flood Project, which will develop new processes, products (sensors, data sets, analytic tools, imagery), and standards to improve operations and outcomes in support of FEMA (to include the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration National Flood Insurance Program, flood assistance programs, and dam safety programs), other federal agencies, and the insurance industry.

  • Organizational Chart

    See how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and all of its component agencies are organized by exploring the DHS Organizational Chart.

  • Community Lifeline Status System Fact Sheet

    The Community Lifeline Status System is an effort led by DHS S&T to develop a reporting construct to provide the emergency management community with a comprehensive systematic approach to lifeline status planning, monitoring, and reporting across areas impacted by a disaster.

  • DHS SBIR Success Story - Ouokka, INC.

    This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Ouokka, INC., of McLean, Virginia, which developed SAFARI, making it possible to identify firmware vulnerabilities at a large scale by automatically testing the security of mobile and IoT firmware and applications to the highest of government and industry software assurance standards.

  • Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbance Resiliency Fact Sheet

    Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) events pose significant threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure. DHS has been directed to conduct research and development to better understand impacts of EMP and GMD events and develop technologies and guidelines to enhance and protect critical infrastructure.

  • Fire Science and Decision Support Fact Sheet

    The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is partnering with the University of California, San Diego, on the development of the WIFIRE Edge, an integrated platform that leverages advances in edge computing, to assist in the development of integrated sensing and artificial intelligence (AI), using existing DHS investments in field sensors and technology.

  • FloodAdapt Fact Sheet

    The prevalence and severity of flooding risks has led the Science and Technology Directorate to pursue the FloodAdapt effort. The purpose of this project is to develop, deliver, and demonstrate a community-oriented, flood hazard modeling and impact assessment tool designed to support planning processes for compound flood events.

  • Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Emergency Relief Truck Fact Sheet

    Through an interagency collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense, and Cummins, Inc., an advanced hydrogen (H2) fuel cell truck prototype—known as H2@Rescue—is being developed and tested. 

  • Mass Fatality Tracking System Fact Sheet

    The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is supporting the Mass Fatality Tracking System (MFTS) effort to develop a low-cost and spatially aware electronic tag to catalogue location information for human remains within a centralized cloud-based data storage and display tool.

Last Updated: 01/28/2022