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The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft report, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Interagency or...
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Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), highlights key...
The National Institute of Science and Technology’s (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division awarded $8 million to the Crisis Technologies...
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers are espousing the benefits of a low-cost computer system connecting older public safety radios...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is testing a tool that could make it easier for the public-safety community to prototype cutting-edge...
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RapidSOS, Responder Corp, Orleans Parish Communication District and the Western Fire Chiefs Association received the $1 million Accelerate R2 Network Challenge...
The US Economic Development Administration, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Public Safety Communications Research...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public to help it find new ways to de-identify public safety datasets so researchers and policy...
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The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the Enhancing Computer Vision...
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) helped lay the foundation for autonomous ground vehicles with a 300-mile challenge race. DARPA also pushed...