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DHS SBIR Seeks Solutions to Detect Survivors in a Building Collapse

DHS SBIR Program is seeking information on technologies that can detect trapped survivors in collapsed buildings and voids.

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News Release: DHS Opens SBIR Solicitation for Proposal Submissions

DHS SBIR 22.1 Solicitation is now open for U.S. small businesses to submit research proposals for a broad range of 11 homeland security technology needs.

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News Release: DHS Announces SBIR Pre-Solicitation

DHS SBIR Program released 11 topics for the new Small Business innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Pre-solicitation.

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News Release: DHS Awards Small Business for Soft Target Security Solutions

Research will support ongoing work to address security and preparedness in places such as sports venues, shopping venues, schools, and transportation systems.  

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News Release: DHS Awards Texas Small Business for Urban Detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Technology solution provides an easily deployable system that leverages available 5G signals to detect and track UAV in urban environments.

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DHS S&T Insights Outreach Getting Onboard with SBIR webinar, July 6, 2021

On July 6, 2021, DHS Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) hosted the Insights Outreach webinar featuring the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program director, who shared insights about how small businesses can participate in the program and how technologies developed through SBIR can support DHS component technology needs. 

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News Release: DHS Awards $950K to Hawaii Small Business for Remote Sensor Data Protection

Funding to develop a sensor system capability that is resistant to spoofing or data manipulation. 

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News Release: DHS Awards $981K to N. Carolina Small Business for Digital Paging Technology

Device Solutions will develop two robust paging receiver designs using public television ATSC 3.0 that leverage open standards, broadcast and public safety infrastructure, modern network devices, and new wireless electronics.

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DHS is Largest Agency to Receive 12 Consecutive “A’s”

The Department of Homeland Security is proud to receive a grade of “A+” from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard. This is the twelfth consecutive year DHS has earned a grade of “A” on the scorecard and the fifth consecutive year the Department has earned a grade of “A+,” the highest score possible.

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News Release: DHS Awards $1.68M for Small Businesses to Enhance First Responder Access to Wireless Service

Funding to develop an in-building coverage analysis system that leverages existing first responder radio and smartphone technology to enhance accessibility to wireless service.