National Institute of Justice Science and Technology Program Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness Conference Breakout Session 6 Federal Resources 1

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National Institute of Justice Science and
Technology ProgramTechnologies for Critical
Incident Preparedness ConferenceBreakout Session
6Federal Resources 1
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The National Institute of Justice?

• Component of the U.S. Department of Justices
  Office
• of Justice Programs.
• Research, development, and evaluation agency of
  the
• U.S. Department of Justice.
• Dedicated to researching crime control and
  justice issues.
• NIJ provides objective, independent,
  evidence-based
• knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of
  crime and justice, particularly at the State and
  local levels.
• NIJ's principal authorities are derived from the
  Omnibus Crime
• Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended
  (see 42 USC
• 3721-3723) and Title II of the Homeland
  Security Act of 2002.

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National Institute of Justice
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Office for Victims of Crime
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
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NIJs Organization
Senior Science Advisor
David W. Hagy Director
Chief of Staff
Planning, Budget, Management Admin. Division
Communications Division
Human Subjects Protection Officer
International Center
Program Evaluation
Office of Research Evaluation Marge Zahn Acting
Deputy Director
Office of Science Technology John
Morgan. Deputy Director
Associate Deputy Director
Associate Deputy Director
Crime Control Prevention Research Division
Operational Technologies Division
Justice Systems Research Division
Investigative Forensic Sciences Division
Information Sensor Technologies Division
Violence Victimization Research Division
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NIJs Office of Science and Technology

• Core missions
• Establish and maintain advisory groups to assess
  technology needs.
• Establish and maintain performance standards and
  test and evaluate technologies.
• Work with other entities within the DoJ and other
  Federal agencies to establish a coordinated
  Federal approach to technology-related issues.
• Conduct Research and Development and testing and
  evaluation to improve the safety, effectiveness,
  and efficiency of technology.
• Provide technology information and assistance.
• Operate the National Law Enforcement and
  Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) System
• Build capacity.

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NIJs RDTE Process
Phase II Develop technology program plans.
Phase I Determine technology needs
Technology Working Groups, LECTAC, others
identify technology gaps.
Define requirements and identify solutions.
NIJ Program Managers maintain multi-year program
plans for portfolio RDTE.
Phase IV Demonstrate, test, evaluate and adopt
into practice
Phase III Develop solutions.
Does it meet operational requirements?
Are there existing solutions?
Independent peer review and selection of
developer.
NIJ solicits applications to develop new
solutions.
NIJ tests and evaluates solutions.
Yes
No
No
Yes
Is Development successful?
NIJ assists first adopters of new technology.
Research Development
Yes
Phase V Build capacity conduct outreach
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NIJ oversight and TWG review
Does the solution improve practice, cost, public
safety?
NIJ publishes guides and standards and provides
technology assistance to practitioners.
Yes
No
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Setting OSTs Research Agenda

• Bottom up approach rather than top down.
• Based on practitioner-defined technology needs
  and requirements.
• Technical Working Groups (TWGs)
• Aligned with NIJs technology investment
  portfolios
• Comprised of working-level practitioners from
  Federal, State, local and tribal agencies
• Identify technology needs/requirements based on
  problem statements and desired outcomes.
• Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology
  Advisory Council (LECTAC)
• Executive-level criminal justice practitioners
• Assists NIJ in prioritization across portfolios
  and needs
• Evaluation of program success based on
  practitioner input.

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FY08 LECTAC Priorities

• Biometric and information technology-based tools
  to rapidly, accurately, and positively confirm
  the identity of individuals
• Lightweight, flexible ballistic-resistant armor
  that maintains NIJ-rated level of protection for
  at least five years in daily field use, in
  conjunction with a test protocol to confirm the
  ongoing performance of field worn armor
• Technology to locate, track, and communicate the
  whereabouts of predatory offenders in all
  environments
• Improved contraband detection and monitoring
  technologies for institutional facilities,
  including wireless communication detection/defeat
  and staff identification, location and duress
  technologies
• Portable digital device forensic examination
  hardware and software tools

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FY08 LECTAC Priorities (cont.)

• Technologies/tools to remotely detect and
  neutralize both body-worn and vehicle-borne
  Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
• Automated fingerprint information systems
  interoperability
• Reliable, medically safe, and effective less
  lethal tools for law enforcement and corrections
  personnel to control combative/non-cooperative
  individuals, including Conducted Energy Device
  (CED) improvement and new Calmative Agents with a
  delivery system for same
• Technology to control or stop pursuits using
  Cooperative technologies
• Technology to detect concealed weapons on an
  individual

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Setting OSTs Research Agenda

• Open, competitive solicitations to address
  practitioner-defined needs/requirements.
• Rigorous, independent peer review.
• Two types of solicitations
• Science and Technology
• One per technology investment portfolio
• Capacity building
• DNA Backlog, Convicted Offender, Forensic
  Training, Coverdell, etc.
• Science and technology solicitations structured
  in two phases
• Concept paper
• Full proposal

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ST Investment Strategy

• Invest in research and development that will help
  to revolutionize the criminal justice system.
• Invest in the highest potential payoff
• Invest in the gaps
• Not explosive detection
• Significant DHS, DoD and DOE investment
• Not IED-specific IT
• Significant investment by others
• LEO, BATS, TRIPwire
• In remote weapons detection
• Partnership and collaboration
• Leverage other agencies investments where
  possible
• Avoid unnecessary duplication of effort

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Technology Investment Portfolios

• Aviation (sensor platforms)
• Biometrics
• Body Armor
• Communications
• Community Corrections
• Court Technologies
• DNA Forensics
• Electronic Crime
• Explosive Device Defeat
• General Forensics
• Information Led Policing
• Institutional Corrections
• Less Lethal Technologies
• Modeling and Simulation
• Operations Research
• Personal Protection Equipment
• Pursuit Management
• School Safety
• Sensors and Surveillance

Fast Capture of Finger/Palm Prints
Bomb Robots
Concealed Weapons Detection
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Collaboration
Combating Terrorism
Homeland Security
Criminal Justice
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Partnerships

• Collaboration is a core tenant of how the NIJ ST
  Program is conducted
• Decades old membership in Technical Support
  Working Group (TSWG)
• Mandated in the HSA
• Extensive set of agreements with military and DHS
  agencies under the umbrellas of
• NIJ/DHS ST/DoD Memorandum of Agreement on The
  Transfer of Technology Items and Equipment in
  Support of Homeland Security and Public Safety
  (November 2005)
• NIJ/DHS ST Memorandum Of Understanding on
  technology development for Law Enforcement and
  Response Applications (July 2004)
• Formal international agreements
• Australian National Institute of Forensic Science
• Israeli Ministry of Public Security
• Russian Science and Technology Center
• Informal relationships
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Home Office Scientific Development Bureau

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Critical Incident Technology Partners

• DoD, DHS and DOJ Memorandum of Agreement on The
  Transfer of Technology Items and
• Equipment in Support of Homeland Security and
  Public Safety (November 2005) (1401
• MOA)
• DHS ST and Office of Justice Programs
  Memorandum Of Understanding on technology
• development for Law Enforcement and response
  applications (July 2004)

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Role of the Center System

• The Homeland Security Act identifies four basic
  missions for the NLECTC System
• Scientific and technical support to NIJs RDTE
  projects
• Support for the transfer and adoption of
  technology into practice by law enforcement and
  corrections agencies, courts and crime
  laboratories
• Assistance in development and dissemination of
  technology guidelines and standards
• Provision of technology assistance, information,
  and support to law enforcement and corrections
  agencies, courts and crime laboratories

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The NLECTC System
NLECTC Northeast Rome, NY
NLECTC Northwest Anchorage, AK
Rural LE Technology Center Hazard, KY
Sensors, Surveillance and Biometircs COE New
York, NY
Weapons and Protective Equipment COE State
College, PA
Communications COE Camden, NJ
Office of Law Enforcement Standards Gaithersburg,
MD
NLECTC Rocky Mountain Denver, CO
NLECTC National Rockville, MD
NLECTC West El Segundo, CA
Border Research Technology Center San Diego,
CA Austin, TX
NLECTC Southeast Charleston, SC
Forensic COE Largo, FL
National Law Enforcement Corrections Technology
Centers serving specific regions Specialty
Offices and Centers
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Standards Testing

• Covers the spectrum of public safety technology
  requirements
• Ensure safe, dependable, effective equipment
• Partnership with the Office of Law Enforcement
  Standards
  (OLES) at the National Institute
  of Standards and
  Technology
• Five thrusts
• Performance testing methods
• Evidentiary materials examination methods
• Standards for equipment and operating
  procedures
• Standard reference materials
• Comparative Evaluations
• Patrol vehicles
• Patrol vehicle tires
• Replacement brake pads
• Cut, puncture, and pathogen-resistant protective
  gloves

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Current Standard Development Efforts

• Ballistic Body Armor Standard (Revision)
• CBRN Protective Ensemble Standard for Law
  Enforcement (New)
• Holsters Standard (New)
• Handcuffs Standard (Revision)
• Bomb Suit Standard (New)
• Electronic Monitoring for Corrections Standard
  (New)

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Ballistic Resistance of PersonalBody Armor
Revision of Standard

• NIJ Body Armor Standard-0101.06
• Major Revisions
• Submersion of new armor prior to testing
• Reduced shot-to-edge distance (from 3 to 2)
• Revised P-BFS shot pattern
• Testing of multiple armor sizes
• Improved ballistic limit testing (V50)
• New sample quantities
• Testing of conditioned armors
• Introduction of enhanced Conformity Assessment
  Program

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Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear (CBRN)
Protective Ensemble Standard for Law Enforcement

• Establishes the minimum requirements for the
  design, performance, testing, documentation, and
  certification of Law Enforcement protective
  ensembles and ensemble elements for protection
  from CBRN hazards
• Standard also addresses the requirements
  associated with Law Enforcement mission-specific
  activities
• Draft standard and certification program was
  released for public comment in August and
  comments are now being reviewed by STC.

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Handcuffs Standard

• Revision of NIJ Standard 0307.01 to include
  non-metallic materials used by law enforcement
  and corrections
• Will also improve and enhance test methods to
  ensure the performance of the handcuffs
• Focus Group of Law Enforcement practitioners met
  in June 2008 to develop performance requirements
• A Special Technical Committee (STC) has been
  created to revise the standard.

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Holsters Standard

• Focus Group of Law Enforcement practitioners met
• in June 2008 to begin developing performance
  requirements for retention holsters to verify
  that these requirements are met.
• A Special Technical Committee (STC) has been
  created to develop the standard.

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Bomb Suit Standard

• Draft Bomb Suit Standard complete
• Panel of Experts has reviewed the draft and
  recommendations are being implemented.
• Expected publication of standard by January 1,
  2009

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Electronic Monitoring for Corrections Standard

• Planning for this effort is underway and the
  first Special Technical Committee is planned for
  January 2009

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Compliance Testing
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Technology Assistance
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Highlights of Recent Activities

• Incident Commander critical incident response
  training simulation software.
• Active Shooter training simulation software.
• School Security Technology Guide.
• SCORMAP mapping and analysis tool for schools.
  Development of a tactile, puncture and cut
  resistant glove offering protection from chemical
  and biological hazards (TSWG)
• Study of Deaths Following Electro Muscular
  Disruption Interim Report (Jun. 08)
• No conclusive medical evidence that indicates a
  high risk of serious injury or death from the
  direct effects of CEDs. 
• Demonstration and evaluation of DE less-lethal
  technology in LA County jail.

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Highlights of Recent Activities

• Participating in an FAA rulemaking committee to
  establish guidelines for unmanned aircraft
  systems for public safety.
• Evaluation with the LASDP using commercial
  communications infrastructure to locate and track
  LE personnel and equipment.
• Collaborative effort with DHS to implement the
  Thales multi-band radio for LE application.
• Dialogue with the FCC on providing State and
  local LE and Corrections agencies the ability to
  effectively detect and defeat cell phones.
• Development of a tactile, puncture and cut
  resistant glove offering protection from chemical
  and biological hazards (TSWG).

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Summary

• OST values input from practitioners RD focuses
  on practitioner defined needs and requirements.
• OST develops standards and tests commercially
  available equipment to verify its safety,
  effectiveness, and efficiency.
• OST works with criminal justice agencies to help
  demonstrate, test, evaluate, and adopt new
  technologies.
• OST leverages RD and technology expertise from
  other Federal partners at DHS, DoD, DoE.
• The NLECTC System provides technology information
  and assistance to law enforcement, corrections,
  and other criminal justice agencies free of
  charge.

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Contact Information

• www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Booth 300
• www.justnet.org Booth 321
• asknlectc_at_nlectc.org
• 800 248-2742
• Marc H. Caplan, Chief
• Operational Technologies Division
• Office of Science and Technology
• National Institute of Justice
• 202 307-2956
• Marc.caplan_at_usdoj.gov