Programs

The System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) Program provides high quality, impartial, operationally relevant evaluations/validations of critical emergency responder related equipment and systems, and provides those results to the community in an operationally useful form. This sharing of information will be a life-saving and cost-saving asset to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as to federal, state, local, and tribal users of emergency response equipment.

The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) is the principal vehicle through which the Office of Grants and Training (G&T) identifies, develops, tests and delivers training to state and local emergency responders. The NDPC membership includes G&T's Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama, Texas A&M University, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Louisiana State University, and the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site; each member brings a unique set of assets to the domestic preparedness program.