Army lends a hand to homeland security.

• Position: Security beat: homeland defense briefs - Brief Article

The U.S. Army's research and development arm is looking for ways to facilitate technology transfer to homeland defense agencies, according to service officials. The Research Development and Engineering Command is developing a plan to support domestic agencies and share technology with the Department of Homeland Security.

The goal ultimately is to integrate all the first responder systems into one overarching architecture, according to Col. David Bongi, the RDECOM acting commander.

As a first step, RDECOM will attempt to identify which homeland defense technologies developed by the Army can be cascaded to first responders. Then, it will work to...