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The System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) Program, established by the DHS, evaluates commercial equipment to aid emergency responders in procurement decisions. A focus group conducted by SPAWARSYSCEN assessed hand-held language translators to enhance communication with non-English speaking individuals during emergencies. The findings and reports from the SAVER Program are available on their website, providing valuable resources for responders nationwide.

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HHLangTrans HLT - 0807 508

The System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) Program, established by the DHS, evaluates commercial equipment to aid emergency responders in procurement decisions. A focus group conducted by SPAWARSYSCEN assessed hand-held language translators to enhance communication with non-English speaking individuals during emergencies. The findings and reports from the SAVER Program are available on their website, providing valuable resources for responders nationwide.

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August 2007 System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER)

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Handheld Language Translators
Many Emergency Medical Services and law enforcement agencies
rely on interpreters or responders that are multilingual to communicate
with non-English speaking individuals. However, a victim may
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
established the System Assessment and Validation experience delays in receiving time-critical aid while waiting for an
for Emergency Responders (SAVER) Program to interpreter to reach the scene. Hand-held language translation devices
assist emergency responders making procurement offer responders an accelerated method to convey information,
decisions. translate commands, and gather on-site data.
Located within the Science and Technology
Directorate (S&T) of DHS, the SAVER Program As a SAVER Technical Agent, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems
conducts objective assessments and validations on Center (SPAWARSYSCEN), Charleston, has conducted a
commercial equipment and systems, and provides comparative assessment of speech-to-speech hand-held language
those results along with other relevant equipment translators to provide emergency responders with information on
information to the emergency response community
currently available technologies. In preparation for the assessment,
in an operationally useful form. SAVER provides
information on equipment that falls within the SPAWARSYSCEN conducted a focus group to obtain assessment
categories listed in the DHS Authorized Equipment criteria recommendations. Results can be found in the Hand-held
List (AEL). The SAVER Program mission includes: Language Translators Focus Group Report. The Hand-held
Language Translators Market Survey Report identifies five
Conducting impartial, practitioner- commercial-off-the shelf products for evaluation in the assessment.
relevant, operationally oriented
assessments and validations of All reports in the series, including the Hand-held Language
emergency responder equipment; Translators Assessment Report, will be located on the SAVER
Program website at https://www.rkb.us/SAVER, as they become
Providing information that enables available. Reports on other technology being assessed in the SAVER
decision makers and responders to better Program are also available on the Web site.
select, procure, use, and maintain
emergency responder equipment.

Information provided by the SAVER Program will


be shared nationally with the responder
community, providing a life- and cost-saving asset
to DHS, as well as to federal, state, and local
responders.

The SAVER Program is supported by a network of


technical agents who perform assessment and
validation activities. Further, SAVER focuses
primarily on two main questions for the emergency
responder community: “What equipment is
available?” and “How does it perform?”

To contact the SAVER Program Support Office


Telephone: 877-336-2752
E-mail: saver@dhs.gov
Visit SAVER on the RKB Web site: Handheld Language Translator
https://www.rkb.us/saver

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