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Fiscal Year 2019 Small Business and Small Business Advocate Award Winners

Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, E. Darlene Bullock, is pleased to announce the winners of our 16th Annual Small Business and Small Business Advocate Awards for performance in Fiscal Year 2019.

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News Release: DHS SBIR 21.1 Solicitation Opens for Proposal Submission

DHS SBIR Solicitation is now open for small businesses to submit research proposals for 11 homeland security topics.

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Calling Small Businesses!

DHS S&T 21.1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program solicitation is open!

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Lost Person Locator for First Responders

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company dbS Productions of Charlottesville, Virginia, who developed an innovative and life-saving software application that enables first responders to easily see a heat map showing the area of probability for the missing person.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Explosives Detection Technology

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Polestar Technologies, Inc., of Needham Heights, Massachusetts, which developed a portable system for stand-off detection of concealed explosives to detect and identify different types of explosives.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Software Assurance Risk Management

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Applied Visions of Northport, New York, which developed Code Ray, a software assurance risk management technology that improves the speed, accuracy and confidence in detection of vulnerabilities and source code weaknesses. 

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Funding and Partnership Opportunities

S&T offers a variety of opportunities for engagement, including requests for information, calls for proposals, and announcements of other funding and unfunded partnerships.

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News Release: DHS Announces SBIR Pre-Solicitation

DHS announced the release of 12 topics for the new Small Business Innovation Research 21.1 Pre-solicitation.

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News Release: S&T SVIP Awards $186K for Language Translation Capabilities

TranslateLive to adapt Instant Language Assistant to support USCG operator safety and mission performance.

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News Release: DHS Awards Small Businesses for Risk Assessment Tool

Two U.S. small businesses were awarded a total of $1.96 million in funding through the DHS SBIR Program to develop tools that will support dynamic network modeling for risk management to emergency communication networks.