Cooperative Research and Development Agreement: Incident Driven Video Recording Systems (IDVRS) in the Form of Body-Worn Cameras (BWC), Various Accessories, Docking Stations, Video Management System (VMS) Software, and Cloud Storage Technology, 53435-53436 [2024-13927]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket Number USCG–2024–0339]
Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement: Incident
Driven Video Recording Systems
(IDVRS) in the Form of Body-Worn
Cameras (BWC), Various Accessories,
Docking Stations, Video Management
System (VMS) Software, and Cloud
Storage Technology
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of intent; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard is
announcing its intent to enter into a
Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement (CRADA) with Axon
Enterprise, Inc. to evaluate Incident
Driven Video Recording Systems
(IDVRS) in the form of body-worn
cameras (BWC), various accessories,
docking stations, video management
system (VMS) software, and cloud
storage technology. While the Coast
Guard is currently considering
partnering with Axon Enterprise, Inc.,
we are soliciting public comment on the
possible nature of and participation of
other parties in the proposed CRADA. In
addition, the Coast Guard also invites
other potential Federal participants,
who have the interest and capability to
bring similar contributions to this type
of research, to consider submitting
proposals for consideration in similar
CRADAs.
SUMMARY:
Your comments and related
material must reach the Coast Guard on
or before July 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by docket number USCG–
2024–0339 using the Federal portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. See the
‘‘Public Participation and Request for
Comments’’ portion of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for
further instructions on submitting
comments.
DATES:
If
you have questions about this notice of
intent, call or email Matt Burton, Rapid
Reaction Technology Branch, U.S. Coast
Guard Research and Development
Center; telephone 860–271–2600, email
rdc-info@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
I. Table of Abbreviations
BWC Body-worn cameras
CRADA Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement
DHS Department of Homeland Security
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LEOs Law enforcement officers
U.S.C. United States Code
System of Records notice (85 FR 14226,
March 11, 2020).
II. Background and Purpose
IV. Discussion
Cooperative Research and
Development Agreements (CRADAs) are
authorized under 15 U.S.C. 3710a.1 A
CRADA promotes the transfer of
technology to the private sector for
commercial use, as well as specified
research or development efforts that are
consistent with the mission of the
Federal parties to the CRADA. The
Federal party or parties agree with one
or more non-Federal parties to share
research resources, but the Federal party
does not contribute funding.
CRADAs are not procurement
contracts. Care is taken to ensure that
CRADAs are not used to circumvent the
contracting process. CRADAs have a
specific purpose and should not be
confused with procurement contracts,
grants, and other type of agreements.
Under the proposed CRADA, the R&D
Center will collaborate with one nonFederal participant. Together, the R&D
Center and the non-Federal participant
will conduct an evaluation of the BWC
technology and support systems in
various test scenarios to determine the
technology’s performance and
suitability to Coast Guard LEO missions.
We anticipate that the Coast Guard’s
contributions under the proposed
CRADA will include the following:
1. Provide appropriate staff with
pertinent expertise to take the lead in
accomplishing the required tasks;
2. Provide information regarding the
ensemble items and parameters needed
for creating the test plan;
3. Provide all support resources,
including travel, for Coast Guard staff
that supports this CRADA;
4. Obtain, transport and provide all of
the ensemble items to be used during
the testing;
5. Provide personnel support to nonFederal participant to assist with setting
up and execute testing in accordance
with the agreed upon test plan; and
6. Work with non-Federal participant
to develop a Final Report, which will
document the methodologies, findings,
conclusions, and recommendations of
this CRADA work.
We anticipate that the non-Federal
participants’ contributions under the
proposed CRADA will include the
following:
1. Provide appropriate staff with
pertinent expertise to support the above
mentioned tasks;
The Coast Guard is developing a
material solution to meet the
requirements for body-worn cameras
(BWC) as specified in Executive Order
14074 of May 25, 2022, and DHS’s BWC
Policy 045–47 (2023). The BWC policy
mandates the use of body cameras for
Law Enforcement Officer’s (LEO’s)
while engaged in interactions with the
public, pre-planned arrest warrants, and
during the execution of search and
seizure warrants or orders. The BWC
program has limited implementation
within the Coast Guard and is currently
utilized by select operational units on a
small scale. The Research and
Development Center is supporting a
technology understanding of the Coast
Guard’s interest in expanding BWC
usage to all LEO’s.
III. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
We request public comments on this
notice. Although we do not plan to
respond to comments in the Federal
Register, we will respond directly to
commenters and may modify our
proposal in light of comments.
We encourage you to submit
comments in response to this notice of
inquiry through the Federal Decision
Making portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. To do so, go to
https://www.regulations.gov, type
USCG–2024–0339 in the search box and
click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, look for this
document in the Search Results column,
and click on it. Then click on the
Comment option. In your submission,
please include the docket number for
this notice of inquiry and provide a
reason for each suggestion or
recommendation. If your material
cannot be submitted using https://
www.regulations.gov, contact the person
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions. Public comments
will also be placed in our online docket
and can be viewed by following
instructions on the https://
www.regulations.gov Frequently Asked
Questions web page. We review all
comments received, but we may choose
not to post off-topic, inappropriate, or
duplicate comments that we receive.
We accept anonymous comments.
Comments we post to https://
www.regulations.gov will include any
personal information you have
provided. For more about privacy and
submissions in response to this
document, see DHS’s eRulemaking
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each Federal agency. The Secretary of DHS’s
authority is delegated to the Coast Guard and other
DHS organizational elements by DHS Delegation
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2. Provide necessary technology
equipment and services needed to
conduct test scenarios;
3. Provide technical assistance for the
test plan;
4. Provide support services during the
Coast Guard’s test scenarios in
accordance with the agreed upon test
plan; and
5. Provide test data review and
feedback as agreed upon completion of
testing.
The Coast Guard reserves the right to
select for CRADA participants all, some,
or no proposals submitted for this
CRADA. The Coast Guard will provide
no funding for reimbursement of
proposal development costs. Proposals
and any other material submitted in
response to this notice will not be
returned. Proposals submitted are
expected to be unclassified and have not
more than five single-sided pages
(excluding cover page, DD 1494, JF–12,
etc.). The Coast Guard will select
proposals at its sole discretion on the
basis of:
1. How well they communicate an
understanding, of and ability to meet,
the proposed CRADA’s goal; and
2. How well they address the
following criteria:
a. Technical capability to support the
non-Federal party contributions
described, and
b. Resources available for supporting
the non-Federal party contributions
described.
Currently, the Coast Guard is
considering Axon Enterprise, Inc. for
participation in this CRADA. This
consideration is based on the fact that
Axon Enterprise, Inc. has demonstrated
its technical capability and ability to
comply with DHS and DoD
requirements for BWC implementation.
However, we do not wish to exclude
other viable participants from this or
similar CRADAs in the future.
This is a technology evaluation effort.
The goal of this CRADA is to evaluate
technology for its potential
compatibility, integration, and ease of
use with Coast Guard uniforms,
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE),
and enforcement gear used by Coast
Guard personnel as well as the
compatibility, integration, and ease of
use with Coast Guard Information
Technology (IT) systems. Special
consideration will be given to small
business firms and consortia, and
preference will be given to business
units located in the U.S.
This notice is issued under the
authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:15 Jun 25, 2024
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Dated: June 20, 2024.
M.P. Chien,
Captain, Commanding Officer, U.S. Coast
Guard Research and Development Center.
[FR Doc. 2024–13927 Filed 6–25–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2024–0013]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Incident Reporting Form
and Associated Submission Tools (ICR
1670–0037)
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
DHS CISA Cybersecurity
Division (CSD) submits the following
Information Collection Request (ICR)
renewal to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
clearance in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until August 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number CISA–
2024–0013 at;
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Please follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the words ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security’’ and the docket
number for this action. Comments
received will be posted without
alternation to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, please go to https://
www.regulations.gov and enter docket
number CISA–2024–0013.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant websites. For
this reason, please do not include in
your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary
information. If you send an email
comment, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
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will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian DeWyngaert; 703–235–5737;
Brian.dewyngaert@cisa.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CISA
serves as ‘‘a Federal civilian interface
for the multi-directional and crosssector sharing of information related to
cyber threat indicators, defensive
measures, cybersecurity risks, incidents,
analysis, and warnings for Federal and
non-Federal entities.’’ 6 U.S.C. 659(c)(1).
CISA is responsible for performing,
coordinating, and supporting response
to information security incidents, which
may originate outside the Federal
community and affect users within it, or
originate within the Federal community
and affect users outside of it. CISA uses
the information from incident reports to
develop timely and actionable
information for distribution to federal
departments and agencies; state, local,
tribal and territorial (SLTT)
governments; critical infrastructure
owners and operators; private industry;
and international organizations. Often,
the effective handling of security
incidents relies on information sharing
among individual users, industry, and
the Federal Government, which may be
facilitated by and through CISA.
Pursuant to the Federal Information
Security Modernization Act of 2014
(FISMA), 44 U.S.C. 3552 et seq., CISA
operates the federal information security
incident center for the United States
Federal Government. 44 U.S.C. 3556.
Federal agencies notify and consult with
CISA regarding information security
incidents involving federal information
systems. CISA provides federal agencies
with technical assistance and guidance
on detecting and handling security
incidents, compile and analyze incident
information that threatens information
security, inform agencies of current and
potential threats and vulnerabilities,
and provide intelligence or other
information about cyber threats,
vulnerabilities, and incidents to
agencies. 44 U.S.C. 3556(a). CISA also
receives voluntary incident reports from
non-federal entities.
CISA’s website (at https://
www.cisa.gov/) is a primary tool used by
constituents to report incident
information, access information sharing
products and services, and interact with
CISA. Constituents, which may include
anyone or any entity in the public, use
forms located on the website to
complete these activities. Incident
reports are primarily submitted using
CISA’s internet reporting system,
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket Number USCG-2024-0339]
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement: Incident Driven
Video Recording Systems (IDVRS) in the Form of Body-Worn Cameras (BWC),
Various Accessories, Docking Stations, Video Management System (VMS)
Software, and Cloud Storage Technology
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of intent; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is announcing its intent to enter into a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Axon
Enterprise, Inc. to evaluate Incident Driven Video Recording Systems
(IDVRS) in the form of body-worn cameras (BWC), various accessories,
docking stations, video management system (VMS) software, and cloud
storage technology. While the Coast Guard is currently considering
partnering with Axon Enterprise, Inc., we are soliciting public comment
on the possible nature of and participation of other parties in the
proposed CRADA. In addition, the Coast Guard also invites other
potential Federal participants, who have the interest and capability to
bring similar contributions to this type of research, to consider
submitting proposals for consideration in similar CRADAs.
DATES: Your comments and related material must reach the Coast Guard on
or before July 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2024-0339 using the Federal portal at https://www.regulations.gov. See
the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for further instructions on
submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this
notice of intent, call or email Matt Burton, Rapid Reaction Technology
Branch, U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center; telephone
860-271-2600, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Table of Abbreviations
BWC Body-worn cameras
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
DHS Department of Homeland Security
LEOs Law enforcement officers
U.S.C. United States Code
II. Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard is developing a material solution to meet the
requirements for body-worn cameras (BWC) as specified in Executive
Order 14074 of May 25, 2022, and DHS's BWC Policy 045-47 (2023). The
BWC policy mandates the use of body cameras for Law Enforcement
Officer's (LEO's) while engaged in interactions with the public, pre-
planned arrest warrants, and during the execution of search and seizure
warrants or orders. The BWC program has limited implementation within
the Coast Guard and is currently utilized by select operational units
on a small scale. The Research and Development Center is supporting a
technology understanding of the Coast Guard's interest in expanding BWC
usage to all LEO's.
III. Public Participation and Request for Comments
We request public comments on this notice. Although we do not plan
to respond to comments in the Federal Register, we will respond
directly to commenters and may modify our proposal in light of
comments.
We encourage you to submit comments in response to this notice of
inquiry through the Federal Decision Making portal at https://www.regulations.gov. To do so, go to https://www.regulations.gov, type
USCG-2024-0339 in the search box and click ``Search.'' Next, look for
this document in the Search Results column, and click on it. Then click
on the Comment option. In your submission, please include the docket
number for this notice of inquiry and provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation. If your material cannot be submitted
using https://www.regulations.gov, contact the person in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for alternate
instructions. Public comments will also be placed in our online docket
and can be viewed by following instructions on the https://www.regulations.gov Frequently Asked Questions web page. We review all
comments received, but we may choose not to post off-topic,
inappropriate, or duplicate comments that we receive.
We accept anonymous comments. Comments we post to https://www.regulations.gov will include any personal information you have
provided. For more about privacy and submissions in response to this
document, see DHS's eRulemaking System of Records notice (85 FR 14226,
March 11, 2020).
IV. Discussion
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are
authorized under 15 U.S.C. 3710a.\1\ A CRADA promotes the transfer of
technology to the private sector for commercial use, as well as
specified research or development efforts that are consistent with the
mission of the Federal parties to the CRADA. The Federal party or
parties agree with one or more non-Federal parties to share research
resources, but the Federal party does not contribute funding.
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\1\ The statute confers this authority on the head of each
Federal agency. The Secretary of DHS's authority is delegated to the
Coast Guard and other DHS organizational elements by DHS Delegation
No. 0160.1, para. II.B.34.
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CRADAs are not procurement contracts. Care is taken to ensure that
CRADAs are not used to circumvent the contracting process. CRADAs have
a specific purpose and should not be confused with procurement
contracts, grants, and other type of agreements.
Under the proposed CRADA, the R&D Center will collaborate with one
non-Federal participant. Together, the R&D Center and the non-Federal
participant will conduct an evaluation of the BWC technology and
support systems in various test scenarios to determine the technology's
performance and suitability to Coast Guard LEO missions.
We anticipate that the Coast Guard's contributions under the
proposed CRADA will include the following:
1. Provide appropriate staff with pertinent expertise to take the
lead in accomplishing the required tasks;
2. Provide information regarding the ensemble items and parameters
needed for creating the test plan;
3. Provide all support resources, including travel, for Coast Guard
staff that supports this CRADA;
4. Obtain, transport and provide all of the ensemble items to be
used during the testing;
5. Provide personnel support to non-Federal participant to assist
with setting up and execute testing in accordance with the agreed upon
test plan; and
6. Work with non-Federal participant to develop a Final Report,
which will document the methodologies, findings, conclusions, and
recommendations of this CRADA work.
We anticipate that the non-Federal participants' contributions
under the proposed CRADA will include the following:
1. Provide appropriate staff with pertinent expertise to support
the above mentioned tasks;
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2. Provide necessary technology equipment and services needed to
conduct test scenarios;
3. Provide technical assistance for the test plan;
4. Provide support services during the Coast Guard's test scenarios
in accordance with the agreed upon test plan; and
5. Provide test data review and feedback as agreed upon completion
of testing.
The Coast Guard reserves the right to select for CRADA participants
all, some, or no proposals submitted for this CRADA. The Coast Guard
will provide no funding for reimbursement of proposal development
costs. Proposals and any other material submitted in response to this
notice will not be returned. Proposals submitted are expected to be
unclassified and have not more than five single-sided pages (excluding
cover page, DD 1494, JF-12, etc.). The Coast Guard will select
proposals at its sole discretion on the basis of:
1. How well they communicate an understanding, of and ability to
meet, the proposed CRADA's goal; and
2. How well they address the following criteria:
a. Technical capability to support the non-Federal party
contributions described, and
b. Resources available for supporting the non-Federal party
contributions described.
Currently, the Coast Guard is considering Axon Enterprise, Inc. for
participation in this CRADA. This consideration is based on the fact
that Axon Enterprise, Inc. has demonstrated its technical capability
and ability to comply with DHS and DoD requirements for BWC
implementation. However, we do not wish to exclude other viable
participants from this or similar CRADAs in the future.
This is a technology evaluation effort. The goal of this CRADA is
to evaluate technology for its potential compatibility, integration,
and ease of use with Coast Guard uniforms, Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE), and enforcement gear used by Coast Guard personnel as
well as the compatibility, integration, and ease of use with Coast
Guard Information Technology (IT) systems. Special consideration will
be given to small business firms and consortia, and preference will be
given to business units located in the U.S.
This notice is issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).
Dated: June 20, 2024.
M.P. Chien,
Captain, Commanding Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development
Center.
[FR Doc. 2024-13927 Filed 6-25-24; 8:45 am]
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