70RSAT24RB00000001 - LRBAA Slide Deck Combined.pdf

U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Science and Technology Directorate

Welcome to the Long Range Broad Agency Announcement Industry Day!

Dusty Lang Director, DHS SBIR

Program Manager, LRBAA

LRBAA Industry Day Agenda 9:00 - 10:00 Check-In 10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks - Purpose and Preview of Event DHS S&T LRBAA Program Office

10:10 – 10:30 S&T Welcome – Value of Partnering with Industry, Academia DHS S&T Chief of Staff

10:30 – 10:40 Rules of Engagement DHS Office of Procurements Operations (OPO) 10:40 – 11:00 What is LRBAA? DHS S&T LRBAA Program Office

11:00 – 11:45 How are Topics Generated DHS S&T Mission & Capability Support, Office of Science & Engineering, and Technology Centers Division

11:45 – 12:15 LRBAA Submission Process DHS S&T LRBAA Program Office 12:15 – 1:15 Lunch

Topic Talks Room 1 Room 2

1:30 - 1:55 Novel Approaches and Locations for Explosive Performance Characterization and Testing Screening at Speed

1:55 - 2:00 Break

2:00 - 2:25 Maritime Environment and Climate and Coastal, Port, and Waterway Security Technology Acceptance

2:25 - 2:30 Break 2:30 – 2:55 Public Safety Tools for Lithium-ion Battery Incidents Threat Prevention 2:55 - 3:05 Break 3:05 – 3:40 Contracting Process DHS OPO 3:40 – 4:00 Q&A 4:00 – 4:05 Closing Remarks DHS S&T LRBAA Program Office

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Welcome from DHS S&T Chief of Staff, Steve Feder

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SandT.Innovation@hq.dhs.gov

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[ S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y D I R E C T O R A T E ] https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology

Tisha Blue-Warren Industry Liaison

DHS OPO

Rules of Engagement

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Rules of Engagement

• All information presented today is for informational purposes only and will not be binding on DHS or the U.S. Government.

• Virtual Participants will be in a listen only mode.

• Please use the Pigeon Hole link to ask questions throughout today’s presentation.

• S&T OIP Program Office Representatives will be located at table outside the conference room for additional questions regarding the LRBAA.

• Please refrain from asking additional questions directly to the Topic Talk presenters.

• Questions asked during Topic Talk discussions will not be answered today but responses will be provided with all other Q&As at a later time.

• Any information and responses provided during this presentation may be subject to change.

• The LRBAA Industry Day slides and responses provided to the questions received will be posted on SAM.GOV on or before August 30, 2024.

Dusty Lang Director, DHS SBIR

Program Manager, LRBAA

What is LRBAA?

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[ I N N O V A T I O N ]

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement

The LRBAA is S&T’s standing, open invitation to the scientific and technical communities to propose novel ideas that address DHS components' highest priority operational needs.

Announcements are open for a five-year period Industry Engagement submissions are accepted to open topics at any time during the five-year period Topics are updated annually and support DHS mission areas

S&T currently has 23 open topics within mission areas that align to DHS priorities.

Counter Terrorism and Homeland Security Threats

Preserve and Uphold the Nation’s Prosperity and Economic Security

Champion the DHS Workforce and Strengthen the Department

Securing Cyberspace and Critical Infrastructure

Strengthen Preparedness and Resilience

Secure U.S. Borders and Approaches

LRBAA Announcement

• Current announcement:

https://sam.gov/opp/7e851aa6ed46 46aabbcc4ae03b0ff232/view

LRBAA Announcements include:

o Process overview o Eligibility criteria o Research topics

• All announcements and are posted at: SAM.gov https://sam.gov/opp/7e851aa6ed4646aabbcc4ae03b0ff232/view https://sam.gov/opp/7e851aa6ed4646aabbcc4ae03b0ff232/view https://sam.gov/opp/7e851aa6ed4646aabbcc4ae03b0ff232/view

Who Can Participate With LRBAA?

Eligibility:

Foreign or foreign-owned sources are advised that their participation is subject to foreign disclosure review procedures, applicable export control laws, and other applicable federal laws, regulations, and policies pertaining to U.S. Government business with foreign entities. Potential sources may include independent organizations, single entities, or teams from private sector organizations, Government laboratories, airport authorities, FFRDCs, and academic institutions.

FFRDCs, including the Department of Energy National Laboratories and Centers, are eligible to respond to this LRBAA individually or as team members with eligible principal sources, if they are permitted to respond to such announcements by their sponsoring agency.

DHS S&T particularly encourages submissions from small businesses; however, no set aside of any kind will be made. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Institutions (MIs), small businesses, small-disadvantaged businesses, women-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran owned small businesses, and HUBZone small businesses are encouraged to participate in the process or to join other entities as team members.

What Can Be Done With LRBAA?

Types of Efforts:

• Type I (Near-Term Component): Includes projects/activities that focus on gaps or needs that have been identified by DHS components;

• Type II (Foundational Science): Enduring research that results in better and more actionable data sets, knowledge products, standards, and peer-reviewed publications to support scientific endeavors;

and

• Type III (Future Needs and Emerging Threats): Exploring solutions to problems presented by emerging science and technology areas and their potential threat or application to future DHS missions.

Types of Agreements:

LRBAA awards may consist of research and development contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and/or other transactions agreements (OTAs), to include technology development and demonstration.

LRBAA 24-01 Topics Counter Terrorism and Homeland Security Threats (CTHOM)

• CTHOM 01: Development of Tools for Test and Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms

• CTHOM 02: Threat Prevention

• CTHOM 03: Novel Approaches and Locations for Explosive

Performance Characterization and Testing

• CTHOM 04: Public Safety Tools for Lithium-Ion Battery Incidents

Secure U.S. Borders and Approaches (BORAP)

• BORAP 01: Screening at Speed

• BORAP 02: Noninvasive, Minimally Disruptive Sensors and

Systems

• BORAP 03: Air Based Technologies

• BORAP 04: Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems

• BORAP 05: Maritime Domain Awareness Technologies

• BORAP 06: Immigration Services Program

• BORAP 07: Detection Canine Technologies

• BORAP 08: Maritime Environment and Climate and Coastal, Port, and Waterway Security

• BORAP 09: Forensics and Criminal Investigations

Secure Cyberspace and Critical Infrastructure (CYBCI)

• CYBCI 01: Predictive Analytics

• CYBCI 02: Shared Cyber Resilience

• CYBCI 03: Software and Hardware Supply Chain Assurance

• CYBCI 04: Trustworthy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence

• CYBCI 05: Advanced and Emerging Data Computation and

Analytics

• CYBCI 06: GMD and Nuclear EMP Critical Infrastructure Risk

Preserve and Uphold the Nation’s Prosperity and Economic Security (PROES)

• PROES 01: Emerging Technologies

Strengthen Preparedness and Resilience (PRRES)

• PRRES 01: Technology Acceptance

• PRRES 02: Using Internet of Things (IoT) for Community and

Infrastructure Resiliency Against All-Hazards

• PRRES 03: Integrating risk sciences and adaptive engineering for community and infrastructure resilience

DHS LRBAA Funding Opportunities https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public/funding-page?status=open https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public/funding-page?status=open&program=LRBAA&page=1&ps=30&topicId=1021&researchArea=null&rdNeed=null&keyword=null

What Cannot Be Done With LRBAA?

This LRBAA will NOT pursue the following solutions:

• Technical, engineering, or other types of support services, inclusive of “contracting”- type services;

• Evaluation of another contractor’s performance/program;

• Research consortia, association, partnership or a combination, as of businesses or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint research and development venture in a general area; and

• Mature products.

Industry Engagement

• Abstract

• Quad Chart

• Optional Short Video

Virtual Pitch

• PowerPoint

• Updated Quad Chart

• Virtual Pitch Meeting

Written Proposal

• Technical Proposal

• Cost Proposal

LRBAA Process https://baa.dhs.gov/baa/public

LRBAA Video Resources

Insights Outreach Program Exploration:

Finding Your Way through LRBAA

LRBAA Today – Webinar Series https://bit.ly/LRBAATodayVideos https://bit.ly/IOLRBAA https://bit.ly/LRBAATodayVideos https://bit.ly/IOLRBAA

Connect with LRBAA

DHS BAA Office Email LRBAA.Admin@hq.dhs.gov

Join our mailing list:

https://baa.dhs.gov mailto:LRBAA.Admin@hq.dhs.gov https://oip.dhs.gov/ https://sbir.dhs.gov/

How Are Topics Generated – Panel

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How Topics Are Generated - Panel

Sridhar Kowdley Technical Manager

Office for Interoperability and Compatibility Technology Center

DHS S&T

James Small Portfolio Manager for

Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

DHS S&T

Dr. Rosanna Anderson Program Management Coordinator

Office of Mission & Capability Support

DHS S&T

Steve Pinkos Program Support

LRBAA

LRBAA Submission Process

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Industry Engagement (10-Day Process)

• Submit to any open topic

• 3-page abstract describing the technology or research

• Quad chart

• Optional short video

Virtual Pitch (35-Day Process)

• Offeror has 14 days to submit

• 12-slide PowerPoint presentation

• Updated Quad Chart (optional)

• 45-minute Virtual Pitch meeting

Written Proposal (66-Day Process)

• Offeror has 45 days to submit

• Technical Proposal

• Cost Proposal

LRBAA Process https://baa.dhs.gov/baa/public

LRBAA| BAA Portal

DHS S&T BAA Portal | https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public https://baa2.st.dhs.gov/portal/BAA/

LRBAA Open Funding Opportunities

Use the scroll bar to find a topic of interest in the list.

Use caret to expand the topic information

Reviewing the Topic Information

To begin a submission, select Submit Industry Engagement

LRBAA| Portal Login & Dashboard

Read and agree to the Terms of Service and DHS Privacy Notice

Select the New User button to create an account or enter your credentials if you already have an account

OIP Portal Login: Two-Factor Authentication

Enter in the PIN that you received to your email from OIPPortalHelpDesk @hq.dhs.gov and select submit

(TIP: Check your junk mail for the message if you do not see it in your inbox) mailto:OIPPortalHelpDesk@hq.dhs.gov mailto:OIPPortalHelpDesk@hq.dhs.gov

Initiating a New Industry Engagement

Enter in a name for the proposal and select Save Proposal

Topic A

Industry Engagement

To begin, select Work on Tech Proposal

All required (*) information must be entered and/or uploaded on each tab.

Industry Engagement Entry Form

Industry Engagement Form: Review and Submit

Verify that indicators are green and then click, Save and Complete.

Industry Engagement Form Submission Confirmation

Once submitted, you will receive a Proposal Submitted Industry pop-up and an automated email to confirm that your Industry Engagement form has been successfully submitted.

Virtual Pitch

Next, select work on Tech Proposal to continue to the Virtual Pitch step.

Virtual Pitch Entry Form All required (*) information must be entered and/or uploaded on all four tabs. On the last tab, Verify that indicators are green and then click, Save and Complete. You will receive another confirmation popup and confirmation email.

Written Proposal Invitation

After a Virtual Pitch is successfully completed, an email invitation may be sent to invite you to submit a Written Proposal.

Written Proposal Entry Form

All required (*) information must be entered and/or uploaded on all eight tabs. On the last tab, verify that indicators are green and then click, Save and Complete. You will receive another confirmation pop-up and confirmation email.

Further Action Notice Once saved you will receive a notice that you must return to the dashboard to view/update the Cost Proposal and Submit the Proposal.

Cost Proposal

Select the Cost Proposal.

Cost Proposal Upload

Upload your Cost Proposal.

Final Submission

Submit your Proposal when both the Tech Proposal and Cost Proposal are complete.

Proposal Submitted Notification

Connect with Us LRBAA Program Office LRBAA.admin@hq.dhs.gov

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/st-lrbaa

OIP Portal and mailing list https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public

LRBAA Help Desk oipportalhelpdesk@hq.dhs.gov mailto:LRBAA.admin@hq.dhs.gov https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/st-lrbaa https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public mailto:oipportalhelpdesk@hq.dhs.gov

Dr. Anna Tedeschi Program Manager, Explosives

Threat Assessment Program

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Novel Approaches and Locations for Explosive Performance Characterization and Testing

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LRBAA Topic – Novel Approaches and Locations for Explosive Performance Characterization and Testing

(CTHOM 03)

Topic Description Enabling research for the characterization and testing of explosives poses a unique challenge for threat characterization. Innovative tools and methods are needed to provide improvements in evaluating legacy approaches to characterization, adapting state of the art technologies in related disciplines, and integrating emerging innovations. These innovations will improve both the safety and efficacy of equipment and procedures considered by the Department. This research topic will likely include novel experimental design approaches, development of innovative test articles, development of new technologies for modeling or physical measurement of explosives performance, new research analyses appropriate for test and evaluation, and new testing site locations suitable for conducting explosives performance testing.

End Objective

• The desired technology solutions should improve on DHS S&T's existing capabilities to gather explosives performance data and provide higher fidelity metrics for risk assessments and analysis by adapting and/or developing innovative technologies in related disciplines. Outcomes may include procedures, technologies, or standards.

• Physical testing solutions should demonstrate comparable or improved characteristics, such as resolution, repeatability, reliability, and affordability, relative to existing instrumentation, or offer novel approaches to obtaining the desired data.

• Testing sites should expand DHS S&T's available options for conducting explosives performance testing across a variety of scales. The site must provide adequate flexibility to accommodate experimental setups that produce resultant data which is comparable to data obtained from experiments conducted at other locations.

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/explosives-threat-assessment

• https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-explosives-threat-assessment-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publica tions/homemade_explosives_identification_d etection_and_mitigation_2021_fact_sheet_0.

pdf

• https://www.dhs.gov/publication/commercial-aircraft-vulnerability-and-mitigation-cavm-program-fact-sheets

• https://www.dhs.gov/publication/response-and-defeat-operations-support-redops

Resources

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Topic https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/explosives-threat-assessment https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/explosives-threat-assessment https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-explosives-threat-assessment-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-explosives-threat-assessment-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/homemade_explosives_identification_detection_and_mitigation_2021_fact_sheet_0.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/homemade_explosives_identification_detection_and_mitigation_2021_fact_sheet_0.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/homemade_explosives_identification_detection_and_mitigation_2021_fact_sheet_0.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/homemade_explosives_identification_detection_and_mitigation_2021_fact_sheet_0.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/publication/commercial-aircraft-vulnerability-and-mitigation-cavm-program-fact-sheets https://www.dhs.gov/publication/commercial-aircraft-vulnerability-and-mitigation-cavm-program-fact-sheets https://www.dhs.gov/publication/commercial-aircraft-vulnerability-and-mitigation-cavm-program-fact-sheets https://www.dhs.gov/publication/response-and-defeat-operations-support-redops https://www.dhs.gov/publication/response-and-defeat-operations-support-redops

Alyssa Malcomson Program Manager, Maritime and Immigration

Security Solutions Division, DHS S&T

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Maritime Environment and Climate, Coastal, Port, and Waterway Security

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LRBAA Topic – Maritime Environment and Climate, Coastal, Port, and Waterway Security (BORAP 08)

Topic Overview The Maritime Environment and Climate and Coastal, Port, and Waterway Security develops and transitions technology to protect waterways, ports, and maritime borders. Monitoring and ensuring the health of U.S.

environment, coastal lines, and inland waterways ensures that maritime commerce flows freely and interdicts illegal activities attempting to utilize the maritime environment. These technologies will assist with various aspects of waterway management including maintaining infrastructure, monitoring waterway conditions, maintaining aids to navigation, ensuring free flow of commercial goods, identifying and efficiently responding to oil spills, developing alternatives to fossil fuels, offshore windfarms, disabling maritime threats, countering unmanned systems, identifying and boarding non-compliant vessels, etc.

End Objective The end objective is to keep U.S. waters safe, healthy, and efficient for travel, trade, and commerce while preventing criminal activities. At project completion, technologies will DHS component customers to be utilized to monitor security and health of ports, coast, and waterways and secure infrastructure and health of these environments.

Customers The MSS Program develops and transition operational capabilities to help United States Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in detecting, interdicting, and investigating illegal maritime activity.

Impact / Return on Investment The MSS Program mission creates innovative solutions and multi-layered responses to multiple challenges in the maritime domain. Examples of impacts include prototype development to improve USCG operations and integration of space-based capabilities for maritime domain awareness. Through program efforts, the MSS Program will continue to enhance capabilities in UCSG, CBP, ICE, USCIS and other HSE customers through information sharing, intelligence integration, threat assessments, identifying gaps, and reduce duplication of efforts across agencies. Examples of Return on Investments already include:

Evaluate candidate technologies to increase Maritime Domain Awareness, increase monitoring capabilities of America’s largest border.

Continued development of core capabilities in bridge airgap clearance, waterway action planning, waterway travel time, river condition prediction tool, and lock analysis tool, improving Maritime safety.

Deliver new sensor capabilities which identify Dark Vessels and enable automated analytics to augment human operators / analysts.

Develop capabilities to augment or replace existing communications systems that enable of improve maritime missions.

Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) Program Overview

Mission The MSS Program develops, evaluates, and transitions technical capabilities in support of the Homeland Security enterprise to enhance U.S.

maritime border safety and security by safeguarding lawful trade and travel, to help prevent illegal use of the maritime environment to transport illicit goods or people, and to enhance the safety and resilience of the maritime transportation system.

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/maritime-border-security

Maritime Safety & Security (MSS)

Program Focus Areas

Port & Coastal Surveillance

Port and Coastal Surveillance is a joint effort by S&T and DHS components to identify, develop, and transition technologies that can be leveraged to improve Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) by improving, developing or integrating sensors and platforms (including autonomous), information sharing technologies, mission support tools and decision support capabilities to benefit partners.

Port & Waterway Resiliency

S&T is developing and transitioning port and waterway resiliency analytical visualization tools, data, and technologies to provide U.S. Coast Guard waterway managers with more effective and user-friendly capabilities to the Marine

Transportation System and investigating existing and emerging technologies to enable remote monitoring and inspection of waterway infrastructure.

Remote Maritime Technologies

The Remote Maritime Technologies

Project develops and evaluates technologies for the Arctic and other remote maritime regions to enable effective and timely execution of DHS law enforcement, regulatory, security and safety missions. These regions pose unique challenges due to their difficulty to access extreme environments, and lack of communications and other infrastructure.

DataHub Analytics

S&T has developed an operational AI/ML capability to identify suspect activities in the air and maritime domains. The system reviews real time sensor data to identify suspect activities and alert operators. This system enables the evaluation of all available data which far exceeds human capacity to evaluate and has led to a

400% increase in the identification of suspect behaviors.

Maritime Safety & Security (MSS) Program Challenges

Several challenges affecting the MSS mission are:

• The lack of data collectors and sources to enable automated analytics

• Limited tools to enhance safety and resilience of maritime transportation system

• Need for technology that operates in remote maritime regions

• Lack of standardized information sharing environment among DHS components and its partners

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/maritime-border-security

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-safety-and-security-roadmap-brochure

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/amphibious-extreme-terrain-vehicle-ice-rescue-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-domain-awareness-sensors-and-research-activity-factsheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-port-resiliency-and-security-research-testbed-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-maritime-safety-and-security-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-unmanned-systems-technology-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/mass-rescue-operations-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-coastal-surveillance-project-fact-sheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-and-waterway-resiliency

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/rescue-21-augmentation-space-factsheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/river-information-systems-enterprise-factsheet

• https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/waterways-analysis-and-management-system-factsheet

Resources

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BORAP 08

Topic https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/maritime-border-security https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-safety-and-security-roadmap-brochure https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-safety-and-security-roadmap-brochure https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/amphibious-extreme-terrain-vehicle-ice-rescue-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/amphibious-extreme-terrain-vehicle-ice-rescue-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-domain-awareness-sensors-and-research-activity-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-domain-awareness-sensors-and-research-activity-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-port-resiliency-and-security-research-testbed-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-port-resiliency-and-security-research-testbed-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-maritime-safety-and-security-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-maritime-safety-and-security-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-unmanned-systems-technology-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/maritime-unmanned-systems-technology-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/mass-rescue-operations-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/mass-rescue-operations-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-coastal-surveillance-project-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-coastal-surveillance-project-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-and-waterway-resiliency https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/port-and-waterway-resiliency https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/rescue-21-augmentation-space-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/rescue-21-augmentation-space-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/river-information-systems-enterprise-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/river-information-systems-enterprise-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/waterways-analysis-and-management-system-factsheet https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/waterways-analysis-and-management-system-factsheet

Orly Amir Division Director – National Urban Security

Technology Laboratory (NUSTL)

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Public Safety Tools for Lithium-Ion Battery Incidents

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LRBAA Topic – Public Safety Tools for Lithium-Ion Battery Incidents (CTHOM 04)

New tools, strategies, guidance, training, handling, techniques, and related technologies may include, but are not limited to, supporting public safety in:

• Improving base knowledge of the scope and scale of lithium-ion batteries and associated risks in the response environment

• Improving early recognition and response times to these types of battery fires that reduce loss of life and injury to responders and minimize damage to property

• Suppressing and extinguishing battery fires with novel technologies and solutions that are safe to use and easy to implement

• Understanding off gases from battery fires and impacts to personal protective equipment

• Knowing whether fire damaged batteries are free of any remaining charge

• Expanding methods for de-energizing, packaging, storage and/or disposal of damaged batteries that may still carry charge

• Planning for and understanding hazards and risks associated with larger scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in high-rise residential and commercial buildings and other larger applications

Image credit: Dragan Mujan/Shutterstock.com

Topic Description Identify, study, and develop tools, strategies, guidance, techniques, and/or technologies that improve first responder and public safety agencies abilities to prepare for, and respond to, incidents involving lithium-ion batteries.

Incidents involving lithium-ion batteries pose tremendous challenges to first responder organizations because physical, thermal, and/or electrical damage to these batteries can cause thermal runaway reactions that may lead to explosions and fire that happens quickly and are often difficult to extinguish.

LRBAA Topic – Public Safety Tools for Lithium-Ion Battery Incidents (CTHOM 04) – Cont’d

End Objective:

Provide scientifically based, tested and evaluated tools, strategies, guidance, techniques and/or related technologies to the nation's first responders and public safety agencies that increase their ability to save lives and protect property from lithium-ion battery fires, improves the health and safety of responders who respond to incidents of this nature, and ensure communities understand safety and security requirements for expanded battery usage across residential, commercial, and other properties.

technology/publication/energy-innovation-and-public-safety-program

• https://www.usfa.fema.gov/a-z/lithium-ion-batteries.html Resources

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Topic https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/energy-innovation-and-public-safety-program https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/energy-innovation-and-public-safety-program https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/publication/energy-innovation-and-public-safety-program https://www.usfa.fema.gov/a-z/lithium-ion-batteries.html https://www.usfa.fema.gov/a-z/lithium-ion-batteries.html

Dr. Karl Harris Screening at Speed Topic Manager

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Screening at Speed

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LRBAA Topic – Screening at Speed (BORAP 01)

Topic Description Screening at Speed seeks to mature transformative technologies that increase aviation security effectiveness from curb-to-gate while dramatically reducing wait times and improving passenger experiences.

End Objective The end objective is a prototype solution capable of improving the security, throughput, and/or passenger experience at the airport checkpoint or similar environments. Capabilities of particular interest include accessible property (carry-on baggage) screening systems, components, and algorithms; on-person screening systems, components, and algorithms; curb-to-gate screening capabilities and integration architectures; cyber secure architecture and capabilities; and passenger facing technologies to improve the overall user experience.

SCREENING AT SPEED MISSION

The number of air travelers continues to rise, and new threats continue to emerge

Seamless, integrated curb-to-gate sensors array and enhanced detection algorithms

Improved detection, fewer secondary inspections, lower screening costs, faster throughput, and improve operator quality of life

Deep Learning

Better Sensors

Macrosecurity

Distributed Sensing

System of Systems

Problem Solution Impact

Cleared for Public Release

Strategic Initiatives and Demonstrations

• Passenger Self-Service Screening

• On-Person Screening

• In-Motion Screening

• Limited Mobility Passengers

• Millimeter Wave Wand

• Property Screening

• X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

• Phase Contrast

• Photon Counting

• Machine Learning Pipeline

• Video Analytics

• Open Architecture

• Detection Algorithms

• Synthetic Data Generation

• Test & Evaluation Tools

Strategic Initiatives Airport/Operational Demonstrations

• X-ray Diffraction

• Prohibited Items Detection

• Airport Risk Assessment Modeling

• Off-Site Remote Screening

• Small Form Factor Computed

Tomography

• Video Analytics / Immersive

Surveillance

• Screening at Speed Program: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/screening-at-speed

• Screening at Speed LRBAA listing:

https://oip.dhs.gov/baa/public/funding-page?status=open

• DHS Strategic Plan: https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget

• DHS S&T Strategic Plan:

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024- 04/2024_0308_science_and_technology.pdf

• Homeland Security Act of 2002:

https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-act-2002

• TSA’s Strategy: https://www.tsa.gov/about/strategy

• TSA Innovation Task Force: https://www.tsa.gov/itf

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Ajmal Aziz Program Manager

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Technology Acceptance

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LRBAA Topic – Technology Acceptance (PRRES 01)

Understanding the way in which individual and organizational factors influence technology adoption is critical for determining how to avoid organizational barriers to technology transition and implementation.

1. Enhance understanding of workforce acceptance of new technology

2. Enhance understanding of public perceptions of new technology

3. Develop strategic communications plans for the implementation and dissemination of new technology

4. Support operational experiments and exercises to improve technology adoption

End Objective DHS S&T seeks to improve adoption of new technologies to improve national security. Because the selection and adoption of new technologies often requires a substantial investment of organizational time and resources, ensuring that the technology can be successfully embedded within the organization’s structure and culture and used efficiently and effectively by employees remains an important priority. This research will increase the understanding of how organizations operate and interact both internally and with constituents that leads to transition a technology into the organizational context.

• https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA691-1.html

• “It is rarely the complexity of the science that is at the heart of implementation failures, but the lack of understanding as to how organizations operate and interact both internally and with constituents that leads to failure to successfully transition a technology into the organizational context.” Hedge et al. 2015

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Ajmal Aziz Program Manager, DHS S&T

August 21, 2024

LRBAA Topic Talk Threat Prevention

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LRBAA Topic – Threat Prevention (CTHOM 02)

The ability to prevent public safety threats and malign actors through the application of social science methods can include:

1. Research and development to improve the detection, analysis, understanding, and mitigation of the threats posed by terrorism and targeted violence, human trafficking, child exploitation and online disinformation

2. Knowledge, tools and technologies to determine when individuals, groups, and movements are likely to engage in violence or illegal activity

3. What ideological, organizational, and contextual factors may influence acts of violence, illegal activity, the spread of online disinformation, and target selection

4. How to build community resilience to public safety threats

End Objective DHS S&T seeks to ensure rigorous, high-quality data to understand the nature of threats in the United States; provide independent, objective assessment of activities to ensure that DHS can continually improve and understand the outcomes, impacts, and unintended consequences of investments in threat prevention; and ensure the most up-to-date scientific information from around the world is readily available to DHS and DHS enterprise decision-makers for science-informed policy and practice.

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• https://www.dhs.gov/prevention

• https://www.unomaha.edu/ncite/research/ind ex.phpResources

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John Whipple Office of Procurement Operations

August 21, 2024

Contracting Process and Award Negotiations Overview

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• Context

• Emails (2 slides)

• Assumptions

• Process Steps (6 slides)

• Meetings

• How Long Does It Take?

Contracting Process and Award Negotiations

Context

Award

Negotiations

You’ve Got Mail!

“…selected for award pending successful negotiations..”

You’ve Got Mail! (again)

• Written Proposal was complete and followed all the instructions.

• Organization is a commercial company, non/not for profit, or academic institution.

• Organization meets all eligibility criteria for either a Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)-based contract or an Other Transaction (OT) agreement.

• For this presentation only, assume the award being negotiated is a contract under Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15, or an Other Transaction agreement under Section 831 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

• Other award types are available for proposals against the LRBAA including grants, cooperative agreements, or interagency agreements.

Assumptions

1) Agree on Technical Scope

2) Agree on Data Rights

3) Agree on Cost

4) Agree on Terms

5) Sign the Award

Process Steps

Agree on Technical Scope

• Agree on technical scope of the requirements document (i.e., Statement of Work).

• The Statement of Work and Work Breakdown Structure from your proposal are the foundation of the technical scope.

• Typical items discussed or adjusted may include critical path clarification(s), deliverable content and scheduling, participating in Government events to showcase the technology, facilitating review/test and evaluation by other Federal agencies, travel requirements.

• This is not a re-writing of your proposal.

• Finalizing the technical scope often leads to updates to the data rights assertions from your proposal.

• The scope of the assertions generally depends upon the source of the funding (i.e., government, mixed or private), the nature of the data (commercial or noncommercial) and any negotiated terms of the contract where that data was first produced.

• Remember when updating data rights assertions to be as specific as possible in your assertions, e.g., include contract numbers and awarding agency for rights originating from previous government contracts.

Agree on Data Rights

Agree on Cost

• Proposed Contract type

• Accounting System and Cognizant Federal Audit Organization information

• Cost proposal elements:

• Hours

• Hourly Rates

• Indirects/Burdens

• Proposed profit/fee

• Total proposed price

• Cost-type arrangements, labor-hour, and time-and-materials all require an adequate accounting system

• SOW tasks/subtasks should connect to the WBS, which in turn should connect to the proposed costs

• Invoicing frequency:

• Usually monthly for flexibly-priced contracts

(cost types, T&M)

• May be different for fixed-price where payments are based on milestones

• For flexibly-priced awards, look for when you need to provide notices regarding funding.

• Key personnel designations (usually the PI).

• Information security requirements (e.g., CUI, classified information, IT security, Privacy Act concerns, etc.)

• Post award reporting requirements, “Service Contract Reporting,” E-Verify, “Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards.”

• New to the 24-01 LRBAA: Post-contract (after completion of the contract) follow-ups with S&T.

Agree on Terms

Sign the Award

• A DHS contracting officer will always sign the initial award last. Unless there is something in the award that says otherwise, the date of award is the date of the contracting officer’s signature.

• Kick-off meeting will get scheduled.

• The DHS Contracting Officer’s Representative will be appointed via a written delegation letter.

• Performance begins.

• If your award deals with classified information, you can expect a Department of

Defense form 254 (Contract Security Classification Specifications) to be added.

A Word About Meetings

• Are not a condition of getting to final award.

• Expect 2-4 meetings between DHS and your organization over the course of an award negotiation.

• Meetings are optional… but helpful.

• Accomplish more than an email usually.

• Should always include subject matter experts.

• It depends…

• No two submissions to the LRBAA are the same, no two award negotiations are the same.

• Drivers for the duration of negotiations include (but are not limited to):

• Technical and/or cost complexity

• Value of the proposed effort

• Status of your organization’s systems (to include accounting system, purchasing system, etc.)

• Patience is key on both sides.

How Long Does It Take?

Thank you!

Do Business with DHS: https://www.dhs.gov/topics/do-business-dhs

Work with S&T: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/work-with-st

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