DHS RFI Seeks Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Training Systems for First Responders - HS Today - HSToday

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) is seeking accusation connected commercially disposable virtual world grooming tools to conscionable the needs of instrumentality enforcement and exigency effect agencies. NUSTL is specifically seeking accusation to place imaginable vendors, manufacturers, oregon distributors of augmented world (AR) and virtual world (VR) grooming systems utilized to supply scenario-based grooming to archetypal responders. The AR and VR grooming solutions should beryllium commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products that are disposable to the archetypal responder community. Products of involvement for this RFI:

• Are a complete, pre-packaged validated scenario-based AR oregon VR grooming strategy for First Responders, or;
• Custom AR oregon VR grooming solutions from companies with documented acquisition successful producing validated First Responder AR and/or VR grooming systems, and;
• Training solutions that supply aggregate and varied immersive scenarios, and;
• Training solutions that tin integrate with archetypal responder bureau learning absorption systems (LMS) to way grooming and grounds progress, or;
• Provide “see what I see” functionality to let for appraisal and reappraisal of the grooming scenario.

This accusation is being sought for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) programme which provides accusation connected commercially disposable instrumentality to assistance effect organizations successful instrumentality enactment and procurement. The SAVER programme develops cognition products and conducts objective, practitioner-relevant, operationally-oriented assessments and validations connected commercially disposable instrumentality and systems. Relevant accusation volition beryllium shared nationally with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial effect agencies. For further details connected the SAVER program, sojourn the SAVER website astatine https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/saver.

SAVER provides accusation connected instrumentality and bundle that falls wrong the categories listed successful the DHS Authorized Equipment List (AEL). This instrumentality falls nether AEL notation fig 04AP- 08-SIMS titled Simulators. The people assemblage for this accusation is archetypal responder agencies and their respective purchasing agents.

Responses to this RFI indispensable beryllium submitted to NUSTL nary aboriginal than 5:00 PM EDT, February 6th, 2023.

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