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The CIS Ombudsman's Webinar Series: 2024 Annual Report
On July 30, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CIS Ombudsman) hosted a webinar highlighting its 2024 Annual Report to Congress.
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Addressing the Nation's Wildfire Problem: An S&T Roadmap
As climate conditions are becoming hotter and drier, wildfires have grown more intense and destructive across much of the United States. The public safety challenges from wildfires are most acute in the area known as the wildland urban interface where lives and infrastructure are at most risk. Addressing the nation’s wildfire problem will invariably involve bridging different cultures of fire safety and risk that have traditionally been separate and developing a mix of social and technological innovations and ecosystem services to enable better wildfire mitigation and firefighting practices.
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Biometric Data Collection and Verification System
This technology includes a system and method to quickly and accurately validate biometric information.
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Department of Homeland Security Core Ontology for Maritime Domain Awareness Fact Sheet
The objective of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Core Ontology for Maritime Domain Awareness effort is to provide DHS with the base of a semantic framework, in the form of a DHS Core Ontology, a Maritime Domain Awareness Ontology, and a Computational Analytic Ontology. The semantic framework will be an evolving part of the DHS data architecture enabling the functionality to create data that is integrated, familiar and trusted. The base framework will enable evolution by having a core ontology of DHS terms which are then reused to create interoperable ontologies covering the numerous and diverse domains of interest to DHS.
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Earth Systems Science: Key Themes, Trends, and Emerging Concerns
Our Earth system is facing a multitude of challenges across a variety of threat vectors. Identifying, characterizing, quantifying, and addressing these risks remains difficult. Threats like climate change pose existential risks but are not well understood from an integrated systems and safety and security perspective. This paper will cover a few themes that should drive our thinking and research agenda on resilience, disaster preparedness, and climate change and be factored into our calculus going forward.
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Extreme Weather: Opportunities for Improved Preparedness and Resilience
This report is built on a DHS Science and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joint workshop hosted at the University of Oklahoma National Weather Center in February 2024 to examine policy, mission, science, and technology requirements to support homeland security, emergency management and public safety missions in the face of extreme weather.
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Electrostatic Reactivity Testing Device and Method
A safety testing system to determine material reactivity to electrostatic discharge.
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P25 CAP ISSI CSSI Conf SDOC Template
P25 vendors must submit a Supplier's Declaration of Compliance (SDOC) to P25 CAP in order for the vendor's equipment to be posted on the P25 CAP Approved (Grant-Eligible) Equipment webpage.
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P25 CAP ISSI CSSI Interop SDOC Template
P25 vendors must submit a Supplier's Declaration of Compliance (SDOC) to P25 CAP in order for the vendor's equipment to be posted on the P25 CAP Approved (Grant-Eligible) Equipment webpage.
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DHS Privacy Compliance Directive on the Collection, Use, Retention, and Dissemination of Personally Identifiable Information
This Directive provides DHS policy regarding responsibilities and procedures regarding the collection, use, retention and dissemination of personally identifiable information in DHS systems.