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DHS Announces New 24.1 SBIR Pre-Solicitation

DHS SBIR Program released six additional topics for the new SBIR 24.1 Pre-solicitation, providing small businesses a chance to review the topics and ask clarifying technical questions about topic requirements over a select period of time.

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DHS SBIR Success Story - Ouokka, INC.

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Ouokka, INC., of McLean, Virginia, which developed SAFARI, making it possible to identify firmware vulnerabilities at a large scale by automatically testing the security of mobile and IoT firmware and applications to the highest of government and industry software assurance standards.

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S&T Awards 18 Faculty Members at Minority Serving Institutions to Further Summer Research Team Program Projects

DHS S&T announced the recipients of nearly $1.8 million in follow-on funding for 18 project teams from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

 

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DHS Awards funds to 15 U.S. Small Businesses for R&D Prototypes

DHS SBIR Program awarded a total of $14,994,521 to 15 small businesses to further develop technologies intended to support homeland security mission needs.

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DHS is the Largest Federal Agency to Receive 14 Consecutive “A” Grades on SBA’s Annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) received a grade of “A+” on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Small Business Procurement Scorecard.

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DHS Awards U.S. Small Businesses for Proof-of-Concept Research

DHS SBIR program awarded a total of $3,150,000 in research contracts to 20 small businesses to address seven homeland security technology needs in research and development.

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DHS SBIR Success Story “Protecting Emergency Systems from Cybersecurity Attacks”

DHS SBIR Program is committed to identifying promising small businesses and innovative approaches to help address homeland security needs. This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company SecureLogix., of San Antonio Texas, which developed Call Secure, a managed service that provides security protection to mitigate TDoS attacks by authenticating calls and helping to defeat fraudulent call spoofing, shifting the advantage from TDoS attackers to network administrators.

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DHS SBIR Success Story “Authenticating Calls in Real Time to Combat Spoofing"

DHS SBIR Program is committed to identifying promising small businesses and innovative approaches to help address homeland security needs. This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company SecureLogix., of San Antonio, Texas, which developed a solution that stops Caller ID Spoofing by auto-authenticating calls in real time.

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DHS SBIR Success Story "Eliminating Levels of Compute to Storage Translations"

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is committed to identifying promising small businesses and innovative approaches to help address homeland security needs. This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Accipiter Systems, Inc. of Wexford, PA. 

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There’s No Business Like Small Business

Happy National Small Business Week to all of the hardworking small businesses out there. Thank you for all that you contribute to our communities, our economy, and our homeland security.