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Program Manager: Bruce Baicar
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) AZLink Project enables law enforcement units in the field to access and exchange criminal data (for example, criminal histories, mug shots, or incident reports) using hand-held, wireless, smartphone personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Prior to the deployment of AZLink, many southern Arizona law enforcement units could only access critical criminal data from police radios or from computer systems located at headquarters. Based on this technology's performance on the frontlines, CID intends to provide more than 200 of the smartphone PDA devices to law enforcement units in at least 20 local, tribal, state, and federal agencies across Arizona. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Denis Gusty
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division’s (CID) Computer-Aided Dispatch Interoperability Project (CADIP) coordinated with emergency response agencies in Silicon Valley, California; Portland, Oregon; Phoenix-Mesa, Arizona; and the National Capital Region to identify the benefits of seamlessly and securely sharing information between disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems. To help local and state agencies across the nation determine their future path toward CAD interoperability, CADIP researched various approaches to link CAD systems. CADIP encourages other jurisdictions to link their CAD systems via standards-based solutions. The project resulted in the creation of the CADIP Business Case—a video that provides decision makers with a value proposition for the importance of CAD interoperability. CADIP also published the Computer-Aided Dispatch Interoperability Project Documentation of Regional Efforts—a case study of the three regions studied and how they implemented CAD interoperability projects. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Denis Gusty
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is establishing a research, development, testing and evaluation program to enable local, tribal, and state practitioners to deliver relevant, timely, effective, targeted alert messages to their constituents on their mobile devices without compromising networks. Known as the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS), this national capability will ensure more people are alerted of crises that threaten their well-being. The project includes, at a minimum, addressing capability gaps in dynamic geographic targeting and understanding the public’s response to alerts and warnings. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Karyn Smith-Higa
Project Overview: Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is now the single categorical designation for information in the information sharing environment of the executive branch of the federal government. It was previously referred to as sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information. Across the federal government, there are at least 107 unique markings and over 130 different labeling or handling processes and procedures for SBU information. Inconsistency in SBU policies not only impedes the timeliness, accuracy, and steady flow of terrorism information that should be shared, but often fails to protect information that should not be shared. The Science and Technology Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) CUI Framework project will aid efforts to effectively designate, mark, safeguard, and disseminate information labeled as CUI in order to standardize practices and improve information sharing. The CUI Framework will not classify or declassify new or additional information. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Herbert Engle
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Critical Infrastructure Inspection Management System (CIIMS) enables aerial law enforcement personnel to better protect critical infrastructures and key resources (e.g., dams, bridges, power facilities) through structured monitoring, data collection, and information sharing within the local, state, and federal intelligence communities. The computer-based tool consists of a small, easy-to-use, tablet-sized computer with touch-screen controls. CIIMS aids data collection efforts and speeds information sharing among local, state, and federal intelligence communities. The technology allows inspection teams to visualize their location and proximity to the property being inspected. It also guides them through the inspection process to download information into a common database in real time. Originally deployed with the Maryland State Police, the system is now being used by the Los Angeles Police Department to support aerial operations as well. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Denis Gusty
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is partnering with emergency responders, federal agencies, and standards development organizations to accelerate the development of data messaging standards. When established, these standards provide emergency responders with the capability to seamlessly exchange critical data-such as situational reports, personnel requests, maps, and hospital bed availability information-across disparate software systems and applications. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Douglas Maughan
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) Testbed provides users, researchers, developers, and network operators nationwide with a testbed to conduct repeatable cyber experiments. Using this first-ever, experimental infrastructure, users can safely test new defensive cyber security technologies in realistic scenarios. DETER's experimental forum is invaluable to collaborative and vendor-neutral cyber security testing and research. Ultimately, users apply successfully tested cyber solutions in the field to secure the nation's networks and Internet. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Douglas Maughan
Project Overview: The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate's Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) has partnered with the S&T Directorate's Chief Information Officer (CIO) to pilot the Department of Homeland Security Secure Wireless Access Prototype (DSWAP). DSWAP is a secure wireless access solution that provides enhanced, layered defense starting with the mobile wireless user and extending back to protected networks. The S&T Directorate's CIO will deploy DSWAP to minimize risk in using public networks to securely connect to Department networks. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Area Lead: Shane Cullen
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) successfully transitioned the Digital Ink Library to the United States Secret Service (USSS) in January 2009. The Digital Ink Library currently includes approximately 9,000 inks, many of which are rare and irreplaceable. These inks are critical in the investigation of criminal and terrorist casework involving fraudulent financial documents (such as checks and money orders), property and asset documents, and threats to persons protected by the USSS. Through this project, CID worked with USSS forensic investigators to enhance mission effectiveness by digitizing the complete archive of ink samples. Digitization allows for a less time-consuming process to locate inks, when needed; it also protects inks from environmental degradation. As a result, ink sample matching takes seconds as opposed to hours or days, and irreplaceable inks remain secure. This project is part of the Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Investigative Technologies program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Kielman
Program Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Discrete-Element Computing, Privacy and Forensics Program investigates novel mathematical transformations and other specialized techniques for accessing, processing, and managing multiple types and modes of information. Such data-intensive techniques are essential to the production of timely, comprehensive information on potential threats or imminent disasters. These techniques enable models and simulations to better capture and present the scale of the associated environmental, human, and economic impacts. In addition to providing real-time data analysis and decision support, discrete element tools offer the best methods for developing privacy-preserving software algorithms and real-time forensics. This project is part of the Basic/Futures Research program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Douglas Maughan
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) project ensures that users reach correct and valid Internet sites. Large-scale international deployment of DNSSEC is underway-this deployment will offer assured Internet communications and will thwart a large number of current Internet attacks. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Shane Cullen
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) forensic speaker recognition technology is reducing voice analysis completion rates by half. CID is partnering with the United States Secret Service and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory to develop a cutting-edge suite of software tools that automate labor-intensive components of speech analysis and compare speaker language and dialect features. The technology identifies how common a speech feature is by comparing the feature between speech samples and the U.S. population at large. Previously, it could take up to ten hours to analyze five minutes of speech evidence. The software tools under development have reduced this analysis time to less than one hour. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Bruce Baicar
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Generalized Data Driven Analysis and Integration (GDDAI) project is developing several pilots to demonstrate the applicability of different analysis techniques for federal law enforcement operations. For example, one pilot is using a proximity query that allows agents to view, in a geospatial context, other suspects that may be close to the primary target in a pursuit. GDDAI has been deployed and is used today to aid in the investigation of active cases. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Karyn Smith-Higa
Project Overview: While there is substantial research and development underway in the area of identity management (IdM), fundamental questions remain regarding how the Department of Homeland Security should proceed in the coming years. IdM policies, standards, architectures, and technical approaches that support homeland security community-wide, and eventually, government-wide are major current and future initiatives for the Department. The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is addressing these questions through the creation of the IdM Testbed project. This initiative is working to find the best technical solutions, practices, and policies for IdM in the homeland security community through extensive research and experimentation. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Denis Gusty
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) supports the Integrated Public Alert Warning System (IPAWS) in the advancement of interoperability and state-of-the-art technologies for alerts and warnings through standards development and adoption, conformity assessment, industry capability analysis, and technology evaluation. The result of these efforts will enable local, tribal, and state practitioners to provide reliable and accurate alerts and warnings to a wider public. As a result, there will be a significant reduction in the loss of life and property from all hazards. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Kathleen Higgins
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Interoperability Continuum is designed to help the emergency response community and local, tribal, state, and federal policy makers address critical elements for success as they plan and implement interoperability solutions. These elements include governance, standard operating procedures, technology, training and exercises, and usage of interoperable communications. Updated in 2008, the Continuum's technology element was divided into both data and voice elements to reflect the modern path to improving interoperability via information sharing and voice communications. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Douglas Maughan
Project Overview: The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) partially funds the IronKey-a secure universal serial bus device that can withstand both simple and sophisticated attacks and provide secure Web browsing, cryptographic authentication, end point security, self-service password recovery, and secure password management. The IronKey was distributed across the S&T Directorate for use in 2008. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Douglas Maughan
Project Overview: The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security (LOGIIC) consortium is a public-private partnership between the S&T Directorate and several companies, researchers, and industry representatives from the oil and gas industry. The LOGIIC consortium recently kicked off its second round of projects, which are aimed at reducing vulnerabilities in process control environments of the oil and gas sector. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Bruce Baicar
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) Mission-Based Analysis of Departmental Suspicious Activities Reporting (SAR) pilot is examining the data environment and capabilities of current and planned SAR analytics. The pilot will conduct this assessment using a common analytic framework that relates mission requirements to current and planned enterprise capacity, policies, and training. This project provides a user-driven approach for optimizing integration and collaboration of SAR data within and across selected intelligence and law enforcement entities. This initiative will evolve as the SAR concept of operations develops to ensure that recommendations align with current and planned operational procedures. Through a collaborative effort of seven Department of Homeland Security components and CID, a key set of user-specified capabilities will be developed into a working prototype. This prototype will then leverage SAR data from each of the participating components. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Thomas Chirhart
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is demonstrating a prototype for the first-ever, portable multi-band radio (MBR), which will allow emergency responders-police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical service personnel-to communicate with partner agencies, regardless of the radio band in which they operate. Similar in size and weight to existing portable radios, the MBR will provide emergency responders with cutting-edge communications capabilities. CID plans to pilot this radio with emergency responder agencies in 2009. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Herbert Engle
Project Overview: In support of the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer's Enterprise Data Management Office, the Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is funding the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Tool Analysis Project. This project examines the range of tools used to develop NIEM-compliant Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD). IEPD is a specification for data exchange and is an important foundation for information sharing. This project's assessment of NIEM tools determined how well existing tools support practitioners in the NIEM IEPD development process. It also evaluated practitioner tool usage and highlighted experiences during IEPD development. The final document provides a qualitative assessment of the tools used by practitioners, issues with the current tools, and recommended improvements. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Kielman
Project Overview:: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division's (CID) National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) was established in 2004 and led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and is a national and international resource that provides strategic leadership and coordination for visual analytics technology and tools. NVAC protects the nation's citizens and critical infrastructures by providing emergency responders and public safety, public health, and law enforcement officials with technologies and capabilities to:
A network of university-based Centers of Excellence support CID and NVAC, including:
Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Kielman
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID), is partnering with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as well as San Diego's Automated Regional Justice Information System to enhance each agency's ability to manage, process, and analyze data related to counterterrorism, crisis response, incident management, and law enforcement. This project is part of the Basic/Futures Research program area of CID.
Program Manager: Luke Berndt
Program Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is sponsoring an initiative to facilitate the accessibility of computer and network operational data for use in cyber defense research and development. The Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure against Cyber Threats (PREDICT) initiative aims to make this information accessible through large-scale research datasets. PREDICT represents an important three-way partnership between government, critical information infrastructure providers, and the security development community (both academic and commercial). The research data sets allow these partners to pursue technical solutions that will protect the public and private information infrastructure. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Luke Berndt
Program Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is sponsoring an initiative to facilitate the accessibility of computer and network operational data for use in cyber defense research and development. The Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure against Cyber Threats (PREDICT) initiative aims to make this information accessible through large-scale research datasets. PREDICT represents an important three-way partnership between government, critical information infrastructure providers, and the security development community (both academic and commercial). The research data sets allow these partners to pursue technical solutions that will protect the public and private information infrastructure. This project is part of the Cyber Security program area of CID.
Program Manager: Cuong Luu
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) leads the Radio over Wireless Broadband (ROW-B) project. Because wireless radio and broadband systems serve specific and different needs, they were not designed to communicate with each other. Through the ROW-B project, CID is working with emergency response agencies and an industry partner to research how to connect existing land mobile radio systems with advanced wireless broadband technologies. CID will test the ROW-B technology through a pilot with local government agencies. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Kai-Dee Chu
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is currently testing the operational efficiency of a streaming video application that will enhance mission communications capabilities for emergency responders and law enforcement officials. RealEyes is a cutting-edge technology that enables personal digital assistant (PDA) devices or cell phones to send real-time video and geospatial coordinates, view live video from a fixed or mobile camera, control fixed cameras, and immediately stream video from a PDA. The capabilities of the RealEyes software system can be used to provide situational awareness during emergency and non-emergency scenarios. This project is part of the Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Investigative Technologies program area of CID.
Program Manager: Herbert Engle
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is assisting the emergency management community through the Sea, Lake, Overland Surge due to Hurricane (SLOSH) system. SLOSH is a computerized legacy software model operated by the National Hurricane Center that estimates storm surge heights and winds resulting from hurricanes by assessing pressure, size, forward speed, and track. This project will model and analyze the currently implemented software system in order to modernize and improve the efficiency and capability of the SLOSH system. Redesign of this software system will result in enhanced usability and adaptability for the emergency management community. The next generation of SLOSH also encompasses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's efforts to incorporate new science and software technologies that are emerging from users, researchers, and industry partners. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Steven Knox
Project Overview: Based on the Geographic Information System (GIS), the Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is developing a pilot, Virtual City, to integrate multiple data sources into a GIS viewer to enhance local law enforcement operations and situational awareness. CID will publish a resource guide for local and state law enforcement agencies that will explain the step-by-step process involved in implementing Virtual City once the pilot is complete. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. David Boyd
Initiative Overview:
Having access to the right information at the right time is vital to making tactical, strategic, and planning decisions in the homeland security arena. Virtual USA is an initiative designed to support decision making by providing local, state, tribal, and federal homeland security practitioners with the capability to access and share relevant voice, data, imagery, or other information, regardless of where it is stored and the device used to access it, and among jurisdictions, states, regions, and nationally.
CID, working with other partners, such as the R-Tech program, within the Science and Technology Directorate, will advance application and platform agnostic technologies, standards, governance models and other tools, to establish a standards-based open information infrastructure that facilitates information sharing and collaboration. The Virtual USA initiative is not a specific project or program, but is a way of thinking at the practitioner level and a way of organizing efforts at the national level, focusing on the following key points:
This collaborative initiative includes projects throughout all of CID.
Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Kielman
Program Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) program conducts research on novel advanced technologies and techniques for understanding and manipulating information in multiple forms and modes (for example, text, video, images, audio, databases, and sensor data). Visual analytics software tools and human-computer interaction techniques leverage a person's inherent ability to process visual information to interpret and analyze large quantities of diverse data. Meanwhile, the associated computation-based analytical reasoning techniques enable users to obtain real-time insights into complex data. Research on making such tools available for a wide range of tailored uses-including mobile and portable systems, desktop analytical stations, and large-scale situational awareness or common operating picture installations-is also underway. This project is part of the Basic/Futures Research program area of CID.
Program Manager: Luke Berndt
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is partnering with the International Association of Fire Chiefs, federal agencies, industry leaders, and firefighters nationwide to improve digital radio transmissions in high-noise fire response operations by testing the digital Vocoder. This working group identified the Vocoder-a hardware/software component in every digital radio-as the cause of voice distortion in radios. When affected, the Vocoder may endanger the lives of responders and those awaiting help. CID will help train responders on how to minimize the distortion and will partner with radio manufacturers in the development of smarter radios. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Cuong Luu
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) is leading the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Project. To connect radio systems, emergency responders rely on bridging systems-technology components that connect radio systems. Bridging systems are increasingly using Internet Protocol-based connections known as VoIP to transmit voice communications across radio systems. Although VoIP is based on standards, the technology lacks a single standard adopted by all manufacturers. CID is working with emergency responders and the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences to define a specification for bridging devices that use VoIP. This project is part of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility within CID.
Program Manager: Bruce Baicar
Project Overview: The Science and Technology Directorate Command, Control and Interoperability Division (CID) funded the development of the Wireless Federated Query for handheld devices that can retrieve digital photographs from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. This new application enables law enforcement personnel who are away from their office or vehicle to quickly query, retrieve, and view California driver license photographs via a range of handheld personal digital assistant devices. This new capability greatly enhances practitioners' ability to positively identify individuals in the field in real time. The new handheld application was certified by the California Department of Justice. Nearly 300 local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel throughout Southern California are currently participating in its operational testing. This project is part of the Knowledge Management Tools program area of CID.
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This page was last reviewed/modified on April 2, 2009.
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