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DHS, through its ITF, is part of the federal response to EO 13636 on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, signed by the President on February 12, 2013, and the Presidential Policy Directive-21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISR/PPD-21).
In 2008, based on the need of the Financial Services Sector, S&T began funding the DECIDE project. DECIDE is a software suite that significantly advances state-of-the-art critical infrastructure protection exercises.
The Defense Experimental Research (DETER) testbed project enables cybersecurity researchers to run experiments on a secure "virtual Internet." The testbed provides contained environments that allow researchers to safely test advanced defense mechanisms against "live" threats without endangering other research or the larger Internet. The project was originally jointly funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate and the National Science Foundation.
FMD is a highly contagious dis-ease that can severely affect domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle, swine, sheep, goats, deer and buffalo. Protecting American livestock is critical to the country’s agricultural economy and preservation of food supplies.
OUP supports efforts to develop the workforce through initiatives that cultivate the current and future homeland security science and engineering labor force.
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate established an Operations and Requirements Analysis Division to use its technical and analytic expertise to identify DHS capability gaps, perform mission/requirements analysis, and perform operations analysis to improve Component operations.