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DHS Seeks Innovators for Smart Cities, IoT Capabilities

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch and key research partners are seeking innovators for prototyping, testing and transitioning leading technologies for emergency responders as part of a smart cities effort that began last fall.The Request for Innovators (RFI) seeks new capabilities in three areas, including autonomous navigation for indoor drones to support search and rescue missions in challenging environments such as fire or earthquake damaged structures, indoor building sensor suites such as digital image, video,…

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