OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

National Homeland Security Research Center

ADVANCING OUR NATIONS SECURITY THROUGH SCIENCE

Technology Testing and Evaluation

The Technology Testing and Evaluation Program (TTEP) is the high-quality, independent source of reliable information on the performance of homeland security related technologies.

TTEP's Approach

Evaluations involve rigorous testing oftechnologies against a wide range

of performance characteristics, requirements, and specifications. All testing
follows strict QA procedures described in the test plan.

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TTEP's Testing Process

The testing process includes the use
of live contaminants and takes place at
federal facilities and field locations. TTEP
is an outgrowth of EPA's successful and
internationally recognized Environmental
Technology Verification (ETV) Program
and often uses ETV test plans, modifying
them to meet homeland security needs.

Technologies being tested include:

Cyanide detection technologies

Rapid toxicity monitoring technologies

Immunoassay test kits

Rapid polymerase chain reaction (PGR) technologies
Drinking water and wastewater treatment methods
Software for distribution system modeling and design

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Stakeholders

Products

TTEP provides decision makers and potential users with
unbiased, third-party reports that can supplement vendor-
provided information. Recentsummaries have
been produced for:

The WaterSentinel Initiative

Portable Detectors

Air-Cleaning Technologies

Technology Development Continuum

SITE Program

SMALL BUSINESS
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH
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SMALL BUSINESS
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Environmental Technology
Verification Report

Stakeholder involvement, an important element in the success of the
program, includes identifying and selecting technologies for testing
and providing input into developing the test plans. Stakeholder
input ensures that user needs and perspectives are part of the test
design and that useful performance information is produced for the
technologies tested. TTEP's primary stakeholdersare those responsible
for protecting water infrastructure and decontaminating indoor and
outdoor environments. These include water
utility operators, building and facility
managers, emergency responders,
consequence managers, health officials,
regulators, developers of homeland security
technologies, and the public.

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Eric Koglin, Director, Technology Testing and Evaluation
Las Vegas, NV • koglin.eric@epa.gov • Online at: www.epa.gov/nhsrc

TTEP's Mission

Technology plays a critical role in all aspects of
NHSRC's mission, vision, values, and strategic
plan. TTEP researcherstest, evaluate, and report
on the performance of homeland security related
technologies that are designed to detect,
contain, decontaminate, or manage chemical,
biological, or radiological materials purposefully
introduced into structures, drinking water, or the
environment. After testing is complete, researchers
evaluate the data and compile performance results
into individual summary reports. These reports inc
side-by-sidecomparisonsoftechnologies.

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