DHS Strategic Goals

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C4ISR Transformation and Fusion Government and
Industry Conference
DHS Science Technology Directorate Brief

• Charleston, SC November 19, 2008
• Brad Buswell
• Deputy Under Secretary
• Science and Technology Directorate
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Global Challenge Preparing for the Unexpected
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Get People Right Bombs Get Books
Right Borders Get Organization Right Bugs
Get Content Right Business Bodies
Buildings
People Process Partnerships Product
Its About our Relevance Credibility! Product
vs. Overhead!
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DHS ST Directorate
Chief of Staff
Director Ops Analysis Group
CFO/PAE/OPO General Counsel Corporate
Communications
Homeland Security Institute
Director STSpecial Programs
Director Agency, 1st Responder and Intl
Liaison
Director of Research
Director of Innovation
Director TE Standards

Business Ops Services (BIZOPS) Division
Director of Transition
HSARPA, SBIR
Tech Solutions
University/Lab
Administrative Services Information
Technology Human Capital Security Executive
Secretary
Explosives Division Chemical/Biological
Division Command, Control Interoperability
Division Borders/Maritime Division Human Factors
Division Infrastructure/Geophysical Division
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ST Transition IPT Members and Function
ST Customer
Identify Capability Gaps
DHS Management (Acquisition)
Validate Future Acquisition Plan
TE
TE
ST Provider
Offer Technical Solutions
End User
Provide End User Perspective

• Industry Board of Directors Model
• Consensus-driven Process

End Result Prioritized Investments in ST
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DHS ST Investment Portfolio FY 2009
Balance of Risk, Cost, Impact, and Time to
Delivery
Customer Focused, Output Oriented
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Gathering Mechanism for Customer Requirements
DHS ST Capstone IPTs
Information Sharing/Mgmt
Border Security
Chem/Bio
Maritime Security
CBP/ICE
USCG
IP/OHA
OIA
Acquisition
Acquisition
Borders/Maritime
Chem/Bio
Acquisition
C2I
Borders/Maritime
Acquisition
End User
OOC
Inspector/Agents
Guardsmen
Cargo Security
Transportation Security
Cyber Security
Counter IED
CBP
TSA
CSC
OBP/USSS
Explosives (Human Factors / Infrastructure
Geophysical)
Acquisition/Policy
Acquisition
Explosives
Borders/Maritime
Acquisition
Infrastructure/Geophysical/C2I
Acquisition
Infrastructure Owners/Operators
Officers/Industry
End-User
End-User
People Screening
Infrastructure Protection
Incident Management
IP
SCO/CIS
Prep Response
Interoperability
FEMA
FEMA/OEC
Acquisition
Infrastructure/Geophysical
Infrastructure/Geophysical
Acquisition
Human Factors
Acquisition
Acquisition
C2I
Infrastructure Owners/Operators
US VISIT/TSA
First Responders
First Responders
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Rarely Seen Photo of aCapstone IPT Meeting
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High Priority Technology Needs

• ST investments are tied directly to the
  technology needs of our customers, represented by
  leadership of DHS components, and their customers
  on the front lines of homeland security
• Requirements are updated on annual cycle aligned
  with DHS funding and acquisition processes
• Updated High Priority Technology Needs brochure
  identifies 94 technology needs of DHS components
  and their customers

• Brochure is posted online
• http//www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/High_Priorit
  y_Technology_Needs.pdf

Customer FocusedOutput Oriented
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Information Sharing
DHS Lead Office of Intelligence
Analysis Representative Technology Needs

• Data fusion from law enforcement, intelligence
  partners, and other sensors to support the common
  operating picture
• Management of user identities, rights, and
  authorities
• Distribution of intelligence products
• Information sharing within and across sectors on
  terrorist threats
• Improvement of situational awareness and decision
  support including technologies that provide
  automated, dynamic, real-time data processing and
  visualization capability
• Situational awareness between Coast Guard and
  partners with focus on maritime and law
  enforcement information-sharing protocols
• Predictive analytics including the ability to
  correlate data and information for recognizing
  and predicting terrorist attack patterns
• Protection of U.S. citizen personal data
  including anonymizing personally identifiable
  data
• Improved cross-agency reporting of suspicious
  activity including technologies to improve
  real-time awareness
• DHS ST Lead Command, Control Interoperability
  Division

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Incident Management
DHS Leads FEMA and Office of Emergency
CommunicationsRepresentative Technology Needs

• Integrated modeling, mapping, and simulation
  capability with emphasis on an integrated and
  simulation-based incident planning and response
  capability
• Personnel monitoring capability with a focus on
  improving accuracy in multi-level buildings and
  challenging environments (emergency responder 3-D
  locator system)
• Personnel monitoring capability during incidents
  (real-time physiological monitoring of
  firefighters)
• Incident management enterprise system aimed at
  increasing situational awareness to manage
  available and anticipated human and material
  resources, transportation capabilities, and the
  need for timely information to support critical
  decisions involving rapidly shifting priorities
• Logistics management tool including technologies
  to effectively manage critical resources and
  provide improved situational awareness at all
  levels of government
• DHS ST Lead Infrastructure Geophysical Division

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The Challenge Capturing Communicating Data
Instantly to Inform Incident Response

• The Problem Images from airborne sensors that
  can capture the breadth and severity of a
  disaster and inform the response and recovery
  effort are not being transmitted when needed
  throughout the incident chain of command.
• The Result A loss of valuable time and
  information when lives and property are at
  risk, combined with inefficiencies in expediting
  resources in the right quantities to impacted
  areas that have the greatest need.
• The Solution  Level the playing field by
  deploying a Real-Time Airborne Measurement System
  to transmit images to all levels of the incident
  command chain for an improved common operating
  picture of the event

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Getting the Big Picture Benefits of Real-Time
Airborne Measurement System

• Helps incident commanders and responders
  understand the magnitude and geography of an
  event and how best to distribute resources
• Enables the prioritizing and directing
  of resources to hardest hit areas
• Enables rapid delivery of relief programs such as
  the pre-qualifying of residents for housing
  assistance by providing an accurate record of
  the damaged houses
• Provides residents and responders with
  information about the nature and extent of damage
  at a single structure level

Image by Pictometry
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Multi-Band Radio

• An alternative to emergency response radios that
  operate within a single radio band and require
  response agencies to rely on multiple single-band
  portable or mobile radios to maintain
  interoperability with partner agencies
• DHS OIC is demonstrating a multi-band radio (MBR)
  that enables emergency responders to communicate
  with partner agencies regardless of the radio
  band they operate in.
• Benefits
• Affordability - Cost range is 4,000-6,000
• Equal in form, factor, and cost to existing
  high-end portable radios.
• Ease of Use - MBR users communicate with another
  agency by simply selecting the assigned channel.
• Equips emergency responders with the
  unprecedented capability of operating across the
  entire range of public safety radio bands.

Coming Up -- OIC will soon test and evaluate the
MBR through pilots nationwide
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Countering the IED Threat
Deter Predict
Obtain
Funds
Develop
Organization
Gather

Provide
Material
Improvise
CONOPS
/
Tactics
/
Devices
Detect Defeat
Plan
Attacks
Perform
Attacks
BOOM
Consequence Management
Mitigate
Attribution
Breaking the links in the IED Delivery Chain
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Innovation/HSARPA
FY 2008 Demonstration Timeline
Liquid Explosives Screening August 8 December 15
Resilient Tunnel August 10
Advance screening capabilities to better detect
liquid threat substances so the flying public
will not have to remove liquids from baggage
Develop capability to contain a fire or surge of
water in a tunnel using giant inflatable plugs to
quickly isolate and contain impacted areas
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Innovation/HSARPA
FY 2008 Demonstration Timeline
Rapid Repair of Levee Breach September 30
High Altitude Counter-MANPADS September 9
Determine the ability to detect, track and put
laser energy on the dome/seeker of a Man-portable
air-defense systems (MANPADS) missile from a
platform flying gt50,000 feet above the target
Test capability of containing flood waters from a
failing levee by deploying various methods that
involve the use of inflatable water-filled bags,
large tarps, and a modified barge to reduce the
surge
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Levee Breach Rapid Repair DemoSeptember 30, 2008
Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Concrete Breaching Tool
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TechSolutions Projects
Next Generation Breathing Apparatus
Ocular Scanning Nerve Agents/Toxic Gases
3-D Location
Biometric Identification
Fire Ground Compass
Carrizo Cane Bio Agent
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