The federal designation provides liability protections supporting the evaluation and deployment of ROC Watch across government, critical infrastructure, schools, and other public safety environments. This milestone further establishes ROC Watch as a trusted, American-built Vision AI platform for real-time video analytics, threat detection, and post-event investigation.

What the SAFETY Act DT&E Designation Means for Customers

ROC Watch and its suite of features received a Developmental Testing and Evaluation (DT&E) Designation under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act on July 1, 2026. The federal recognition identifies ROC Watch as a qualified anti-terrorism technology undergoing continued testing and evaluation. Under the SAFETY Act, the designation provides liability protections for ROC and organizations that deploy ROC Watch in the event of an act of terrorism.

For government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, schools, and other organizations evaluating public safety technology, these protections provide an additional risk-management framework for procurement and deployment. The designation underscores ROC Watch’s importance in public safety and strengthens ROC’s position as a trusted technology partner for government, defense, and critical infrastructure operations.

“The SAFETY Act DT&E Designation is an important milestone for ROC Watch and the organizations that rely on the platform to help protect people and critical infrastructure. This achievement provides a DHS-supported framework that helps reduce liability concerns for customers as they evaluate procurement decisions for the ROC Watch platform. We believe this milestone will help accelerate commercial adoption of ROC’s American-built Vision AI technologies across government and commercial environments.”

B. Scott Swann
B. Scott Swann
CEO and Board Member, ROC

AI Video Analytics for Public Safety

ROC Watch is a unified video analytics platform for threat detection, alert management, and post-event investigations across live and recorded video. It brings face recognition, person detection, gun detection, vehicle detection, and automatic license plate recognition into a single operational environment to help teams identify potential threats, strengthen situational awareness, and investigate events faster.

Explore ROC Watch and its role in public safety or read the official press release for more on the DHS SAFETY Act DT&E Designation