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DHS Science & Technology
Directorate Brief
Presented by:
Jay M. CohenUnder Secretary for Science & Technology U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Homeland Security Mission
� Lead unified national effort to secure America
� Prevent terrorist attacks within the U.S.
� Respond to threats and hazards to the nation
� Ensure safe and secure borders� Welcome lawful immigrants and
visitors� Promote free flow of commerce
S&T Goals
� Accelerate delivery of enhanced technological capabilities to meet requirements and fill capability gaps to support DHS Agencies inaccomplishing their mission
� Establish a lean and agile GS-manned, world-class S&T management team to deliver the technological advantage necessary to ensure DHS Agency mission success and prevent technology surprise
� Provide leadership, research and educational opportunities and resources to develop the necessary intellectual basis to enable a national S&T workforce to secure the homeland
Consistent with the Homeland Security Act of 2002
Other (0-8+ yrs)
� Test & Evaluation and Standards
� Laboratory Operations & Construction
� Required by Administration (HSPDs)
� Congressional direction/law
Basic Research (>8 yrs)
� Enables future paradigm changes
� University fundamental research
� Government lab discoveryand invention
Innovative Capabilities (1-5 yrs)
� High-risk/High payoff
� “Game changer/Leap ahead”
� Prototype, Test and Deploy
� HSARPA
Product Transition (0-3 yrs)
� Focused on delivering near-term products/enhancements to acquisition
� Customer IPT controlled
� Cost, schedule, capability metrics
DHS S&T Investment PortfolioBalance of Risk, Cost, Impact, and Time to Delivery
Customer Focused, Output Oriented
S&T Organization
Director of ResearchStarnes Walker
DeputyDave Masters
Director of TransitionBob Hooks
DeputyRich Kikla
Research
Applications
Innovation
DHS U/S S&T
ResearchGeorge Zarur
TransitionHerm Rediess
ResearchIntel: John Hoyt Futures: Joe Kielman
TransitionTrent DePersia
ResearchJeannie Lin
TransitionDavid Newton
ResearchMichelle Keeney (Acting)
TransitionChris Turner
ResearchMary E. Hynes
TransitionLawrence Ash
ResearchChem/Bio: Keith WardThreat Char/Attribution:Sandy LandsbergJnt Agro Def: Tam Garland
TransitionJeff Stiefel
ExplosivesJim Tuttle
Command, Control& Interoperability
Dave Boyd
Border/MaritimeCapt Dave Newton
USCG (Acting)
Human Factors
Sharla Rausch
Infrastructure/GeophysicalChris Doyle
Chem/BioJohn Vitko
Director of InnovationRoger McGinnis
DeputyRolf Dietrich
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DHS S&T Directorate
Director
Ops Analysis Group
Erv Kapos
CFO/PA&E/OPOGeneral Counsel
Corporate Communications
Chief of Staff
Brad Buswell
Explosives DivisionChemical/Biological DivisionCommand, Control & Interoperability Division
Borders/Maritime DivisionHuman Factors DivisionInfrastructure/Geophysical Division
Business Ops & Services(BIZOPS) Division
Admin & Audits (GAO/OIG)
CIO
Facilities-HQ
Human Capital
Security
Exec Secretary
CAO/OAM
Director
S&TSpecial
Programs
Spanky Kirsch
Director
Agencyand Int’l Liaison
Randy Zeller
&Lil
Ramirez
Director ofResearch
Director ofInnovation
Director ofTransition
Director
T&EStandards
George Ryan
HSARPA, SBIR Tech SolutionsUniversity/Lab
DHS U/S S&T
Homeland Security Institute
Product Transition PortfolioEnabling Capabilities, Supporting Mission Critical Needs of DHS
Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)
� 11 Capstone IPTs form the centerpiece of the S&T’scustomer-driven approach to product transition
� Engage DHS customers, acquisition partners, S&T technical division heads, and end users in product research, development, transition and acquisition activities
� Identify our customers’ needs and enable and transition near-term capabilities for addressing them
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DHS Requirements/Capability Capstone IPTsDHS S&T Product – “Enabling Homeland Capabilities” (EHCs)
OIA
Acquisition
Acquisition Acquisition
CBP/ICE CMO/IP
Acquisition Acquisition
ExplosivesBorders/Maritime
Information Sharing/Mgmt Border Security Chem/Bio Defense
Explosive PreventionMaritime Security
C2I Borders/Maritime
Guardsmen Agents
OOC Inspector/Agents Policy
People Screening Infrastructure Protection
AcquisitionAcquisition
US VISIT/TSA
Human Factors
Infrastructure/Geophysical
SCO/CIS IP
USCG TSA/USSS
Incident Management
Cargo Security
Officers/Industry
Acquisition/Policy
CBP
Borders/Maritime
Chem/Bio
Cyber Security
Acquisition
Infrastructure/Geophysical/C2I
Infrastructure Owners/Operators
CS&C
InfrastructureOwners/Operators
Acquisition
First Responders
FEMA
Infrastructure/Geophysical
Prep & Response
C2I
First Responders
Acquisition
InteroperabilityFEMA/OEC
IPT Initial Outcome
High Priority Technology Needs• 11 Capstone IPTs have identified 77 High Priority
Technology Needs for DHS components and their customers
• Identified in new brochure and posted at www.hsarpabaa.com
• Baseline established for conducting an iterative, dynamic IPT process on an annual cycle aligned with DHS funding and acquisition processes
IPT Next Steps:
• Focus on delivering product to customers
• Detail proposed technology solutions
• Clarify deliverable and transition plans
• Develop Technology Transition Agreements to establish customer requirements and technical specifications
Customer Focused…Output Oriented
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Border Security IPTRepresentative Technology Needs
• Improved ballistic protection via personal protective equipment
• Improve detection, tracking, and identification of all threats along the terrestrial and maritime border
• Non-lethal compliance measures for vehicles, vessels, or aircraft allowing for safe interdiction by law enforcement personnel
• Non-destructive tools that allow for the inspection of hidden or closed compartments to find contraband or security threats
• Improved analysis and decision-making tools that will ensure the development/implementation of border security initiatives
Borders/Maritime Security Division Lead
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Capstone IPTs defined requirements and customer capability gaps -NOW to Fill Those Gaps, Project IPTs Need to Engage
Explosive PreventionMaritime Security Cargo SecurityCyber Security
Information Sharing/Mgmt Border Security Chem/Bio Defense
People Screening Infrastructure Protection Incident Management
• Information Fusion and Visualization to Support the Common Operating Picture (COP)
• Network Identity Management
• Cross-Agency Information Sharing
(19)
• Border Officer Tools and Safety
• Sensor and Data Fusion
• Border / Maritime Domain Awareness Technologies
(50)
• Border Officer Tools and Safety
• Sensor and Data Fusion
• Border / Maritime Domain Awareness Technologies
(32)
• Standoff Detection • Homemade Explosives• Checked Baggage• Check Point• Response• Canine explosive detection• Blast Mitigation• Standoff Projectile Mitigation
(45)
• Biometrics
• Credentialing
• Hostile Intent
• Group Violent Intent Modeling
(10)
• Analysis & Decision Support Systems
• Advanced Infrastructure Architecture & Systems Design
• Detection & Sensor Systems
• Response, Recovery and Reconstitution (10)
• Container Security
• Cargo Security
• Cargo Inspection
(15)
• Research Tools & Technology
• Information Infrastructure Protection
• Next Generation Technologies
(12)
Interoperability Prep & Response• First Responder Equipment• Common Operating Picture
& Situational Awareness• Incident Modeling, Mapping
& Simulation
(7)
• Advanced communication• Digital voice
communication• Seamless data exchange
(14)
•The Capstone Execution Arm
• Detailed Customer Schedule and Requirements
• Detailed S&T Performance Parameters
• CoordinatedProgrammatic Alignment
• Codified Technology Transition Agreements
Red number indicates # of projects reviewed
256 Total
To Deliver Technology on Schedule with Requisite Performance
• Agrodefense• Biodefense• Chemical Defense
(42)
DRAFT
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Border Security IPTRepresentative Technology Needs
• Ability for law enforcement personnel to quickly identify the origin of gunfire and classify the type of weapon fire
• Ability for law enforcement officers to assure compliance of lawful orders using non-lethal means
Borders/Maritime Security Division Lead
• Ability to access ICE databases in which voice information is entered; provide analytical, reporting, and automated case deconfliction; classify, identify voice samples
C2I Division
• Ability to non-intrusively determine the intentof subjects during questioning
Human Factors Division
Innovation PortfolioHigh Risk, High Gain, Game Changers for Leap-Ahead Results
� Promotes revolutionary changes in technology
� Focus on prototyping and deploying critical technologies
Includes:
� HSARPA – Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
� “Homeworks” – 1% of budget highest risk, highest pay-off
� Small Business Innovation Research program
� Visit www.FedBizOpps.gov, www.hsarpabaa.com and www.dhssbir.com
Innovation/HSARPA
HIPS and HITS
Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions (HIPS) are designed to deliver prototype-level demonstrations of game-changing technologies in two to five years. Projects are moderate to high risk, with high payoff
High Impact Technology Solutions (HITS) are designed to provide proof-of-concept answers within one to three years that could result in high-payoff technology breakthroughs. While these projects are at considerable risk for failure, they offer the potential for significant gains in capability
Homeland Innovativ
e Pro
totypical S
olutions (H
IPS)
CHLOEFY08 1Q – Live-Fire Counter-Manpads Detection demonstration at White Sands Missile Range
SENSITFY08 4Q Liquid explosives field demonstration of a screening prototype for TSA 3-1-1 bags in a coin size tub at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
FAST M2FY08 1Q – Non-invasive sensor demonstration, validation and metrics at MIT Draper Laboratory
REGFY08 2&4Q – Laboratory demonstrations of fault limiting superconducting cable at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
HURRICANE & STORM SURGE MITIGATION
FY08 4Q – Storm surge mitigation system concept demonstration at the Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg, MS
LEVEE STRENGTHENINGFY08 4Q - New survey methods demonstration using
a variety of geophysical sensors on multiple platforms and address weak levees. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS.
FY-08 Planned Demonstra
tion Tim
eline
RESILIENT TUNNELFY08 3Q – Trial prototype inflatable plug device at the West Virginia Memorial Tunnel
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE DETECTIONFY08 1Q – Examine technical characteristics of a new ultrahigh resolution optical sensor in lower Manhattan in coordination with the New York Police Department
TUNNEL DETECTFY08 3Q – Field experiments for improved airborne wide area surveillance system to increase the accuracy of detection.
High Impact T
echnology Solutions (H
ITS)
Science and Technology
Innovation Portf
olio
HSARPA
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Tunnel Detection: Integrating SystemsOffice of Innovation - High Impact Technology Solutions
• Integrated Systems Approach: Combines land-mobile systems, airborne sensors, drilling, and high-resolution listening devices to detect, identify, and confirm underground cross-border tunnels.
• Current Focus: Demonstrate an unmanned aircraft system for tunnel detection
• Goal: Provide a significantly improved cross-border tunnel detection capability for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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MANPADSMANPADS
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs)
• High-Altitude Stand-Off Counter-MANPADS • High Altitude – Wide-Area Coverage• Long Endurance – Persistent Surveillance• Large Payload – Multi-Sensor
Counter-MANPADS Functions
1. MWS Detect & Declare2. Slew & Hand-off3. Track4. Jam
65K Feet
Border & Critical Infrastructure Surveillance
• Automatic target detection/recognition• Persistence (24/7, all-weather coverage)
Operational Characteristics• Real-time sensor fusion/dissemination• Multi-user / border surveillance requirements• Commercial Aircraft MANPADS protection
Maritime Surveillance & Interdiction
Engagement Time: 3-10 Seconds
Counter-MANPADS/Persistent SurveillanceOffice of Innovation - Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions
Project Chloe
SAFECON – Safe ContainerOffice of Innovation - Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions
� Improved Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) capability
� Improved Sensors for explosives, Chem, and Bio agents
Scan for WMD, contraband, and human cargo during normal crane transport operations
Integrated Sensor Suite: explosives, chemical agents, biological agents human cargo, contraband
Quickly Detect and Identify Dangerous Cargo
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Future Attribute Screening Technology Mobile
Module (FAST M2)
Office of Innovation - Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions
Systems• Queue management• Behavioral profiling• Rapid risk assessment• Screening methodologies
Operational Characteristics•Discover screening methods for intent•Privacy protection for all participants•Simple to operate and use
Functions• Identity verification• Attribute measurement• Risk determination• Behavior focused screening
Basic Research Portfolio
� Brings the capabilities, talent and resources of the Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, DOE National Laboratories and DHS Labs to bear to address the long-term R&D needs for DHS in sciences of enduring relevance
� This type of focused, protracted research investment has potential to lead to paradigm shifts in the nation’s homeland security capabilities
Discovery and Invention to Enable Future Capabilities
DHS University Programs in Brief
• Eight current Centers of Excellence (COEs)
• Nearly 90 U.S. colleges and universities, including several Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
• More than 20 other partners from laboratories, private industry and think tanks
• More than 30 states represented
• More than 200 current Scholars and Fellows
Coming Up
• Four new COEs to be announced in October
• New scholarships and fellowships in 10 major fields of study
• New science education grants for universities and MSIs
Future COE Alignment
S&T DIVISIONS
Infrastructure/ Geophysical
Human FactorsBorders/MaritimeCommand, Control &
InteroperabilityChemical/BiologicalExplosives
IDS-UACs
RVACs
NEW National Center for Explosives Detection,
Mitigation & Response
Consolidated CCI Center
Consolidated Chem/Bio Center
NEW National Center for
Border Security & Immigration
NEW National Center for
Maritime, Island & Remote/Extreme
Environment Security
NEW National Center for
Natural Disasters,
Coastal Infrastructure & Emergency Management
Operations & AnalysisRisk Sciences Branch & HSI Risk Determination
DHS S&T Laboratories
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
National BiodefenseAnalysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)
Plum Island Animal Disease Center Transportation Security Laboratory
… S&T has access to these four DHS S&T Labs and 10 DOE National Labs
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DHS / DOE Laboratory Alignment
S&T DIVISIONS
Infrastructure/ Geophysical
Human FactorsBorders/MaritimeChemical/Biological
StandardsTest and Evaluation
TSL / EML
Explosives
DHS
DOE
Command, Control & Interoperability
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Examples of Basic Research Activities� Modeling & Simulation tools to capture complex
relationships between immigration and border security for strategic planning
� Assays methods for next-generation bio-threat detectors
� Studies of radicalization development within individuals, groups, societies; roles of governments, civic organizations, and communities
� Carbon Materials for Blast Mitigation and Explosive Device Containment
� Information analysis and visualization tools for threat vulnerability, assessment, and response
� Fundamentals of deposition, removal and transport of explosive particles
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Countering the IED Threat
BOOM
ObtainFunds
DevelopOrganization
Gather & Provide Material
Improvise CONOPS/ Tactics/ Devices
PlanAttacks
Perform Attacks
ConsequenceManagement
Deter & Predict
Detect & Defeat
Breaking the links in the IED Delivery Chain
MitigateAttribution
S&T International Research Grants
– Yearly solicitation for international research project proposals that align with S&T’s mission and requirements to be issue October 2007:
• Evaluation of novel tools or approaches to confronting homeland security challenges;
• Basic research to provide data, understandings, or models that support S&T or policy decisions by the Department of Homeland Security; and
• S&T and operations research evaluations to support revolutionary improvements in DHS’s mission and its component agencies’ operations.
– Working with the established DHS Centers of Excellence (COE) located across the country on international collaborative research:
• CREATE (USC) and Technion (Israel) to address peroxide-based explosives.
• FAZD (Texas A&M) and Jomo Kenyatta University (Kenya) to help counter and prevent outbreaks of Rift Valley fever.
• START (Maryland), King’s College (UK) and the National Defence College (Sweden) to study group radicalization.
• START and GRADE (Peru) to study the resilience of violent organizations in Latin America.
S&T International Collaborations
– Have formal Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) for bilateral S&T collaborations across the full range of homeland security science and technology with:
– Canada (June 2004)
– United Kingdom (December 2004)
– Australia (December 2005)
– Singapore (March 2007)
– Sweden (April 2007)
– These MOAs allow for information exchange, joint research projects, and scientist and engineer exchanges.
– Currently developing MOAs with Israel, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Japan, EU, Organization for Safety & Cooperation in Europe, and NATO.
Bilateral Collaborative Activities
Canada-US– Security and Prosperity Partnership – CBRNE Countermeasures– Coordinated Risk Assessments – Critical Infrastructure Protection– Disruption & Interdiction– Systems Integration & Standards
• Sweden-US– Critical Infrastructure Protection– Emergency Management
Technologies– Coordinated Risk Assessments– Maritime Domain Awareness– Social / Behavioral Research– Cyber Security
United Kingdom-US– Radiation/Nuclear Detection (DNDO)– Biological & Chemical Countermeasures– WMD Forensics and Decontamination– Liquid Explosives / IED’s– Social Behavioral – Coordinated Risk Assessments
Australia-US– Critical Infrastructure Protection– Cyber Security– Biological Countermeasures– Cargo and Container Security– Aviation Security– Maritime Domain Awareness– Social Behavioral Studies– Protective Service Tools
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Doing Business with DHS S&TNew Broad Agency Announcements
Released May 1
• IED and Vehicle-Borne Explosive Device Defeat
• Document validator
• Biometric detector
• Home Made Explosives Detection System Development
• Emerging Counter-MANPADS Technologies Assessment
For more about BAAs, visit www.FedBizOpps.govand www.hsarpabaa.com
Doing Business with DHS S&T cont’d Additional Open BAAs
• Tunnel Detection Technologies – allows rapid detection of tunnels
• SAFE Container (SAFECON) – detect and identify WMD, explosives and contraband cargo and to detect humans in shipping containers
• Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) Demonstration Laboratory – rapid screening of people and their credentials and belongings
• CHLOE - High Altitude Endurance UAV System-Based Counter-MANPADS Technology Assessment
Visit www.FedBizOpps.gov and www.hsarpabaa.com
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DHS S&T Stakeholders Conferences
• First Annual Stakeholders Conference,
Washington, DC, May 21-24, 2007
Coming Up
• International conference, London,
December 3-5, 2007
• Conference with first responder focus,
Los Angeles, January 14-17, 2008
• Stakeholders Conference, Washington,
DC, May 2008
• International conference, Pacific Rim,
late 2008
Levee Strengthening and Rapid Repair
Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions
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Levee Strengthening and Rapid Repair
Homeland Innovative Prototypical Solutions
Roll-out protectivecoverings such as
articulated concrete mats
Float-in structure guidedby cables
Drop-in structures lofted by aircraft
Pre-emptive mappingof weak levees
Pre-Flood Deployment of ProtectiveAnd Rapid Repair Supplies to
Problem Locations
Explosively EmplacedSupport Structures
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S&T IPTS
CIED Special Project
COP
Situational Awareness Tools
Law Enforcement
Information Sharing/Mgmt Border Security Chem/Bio Defense
Explosive Prevention
Maritime Security
People Screening Infrastructure Protection
Cargo SecurityCyber Security
Interoperability
CAPSTONE IPTSCAPSTONE IPTS
S&TTask Force
IPTS
Prep/Response
Transportation Security
S&T Task Force IPTS
COP
SituationalAwareness Tools
DHS CIO CID
OPS
USCG
Law Enforcement
S&T Division
Acquisition Borders/Maritime
Agents/Inspectors/ FSD’s/Guardsmen/FAMS/FPs
S&T CIED Task Force Lead
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Acquisition
Agents
USSS/OBP
TransportationSecurity
Acquisition Explosives
S&T Division
Acquisition CID
S&T Division
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Relation between Capstone IPTsand CIED Special Project IPT
CIED Special Project IPT
Capstone IPTs� DHS Customer Led
� Near-Term Focus
� HSPD-19 Focused
� Coordinating OSTP Direction Through Multiple Disciplines
� Additional Research Opportunities Earlier in the Prevention Cycle
� Long-Term Focus
DOT
DOR
USSS/OBP
S&T CIED Task Force LeadAcquisition
Agents
People Screening
Human Factors
SCO/CIS
Infrastructure Protection
Infrastructure/Geophysical
IP
Explosives
Explosive PreventionTSA/USSS