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News Release: DHS Announces 2018 Cyber Student Applications Deadline
DHS reminds interested student candidates that the window for submitting applications for the 2018 Secretary’s Honors Program Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative will close at 3 p.m. (EST) March 15.
See You at IWCE and SXSW
DHS S&T is hitting the road over the next couple of weeks! We are heading to two events to better reach key audiences who can help us tackle homeland security challenges.
News Release: DHS S&T Releases Responder Tech Integration Handbook for Feedback
DHS S&T publicly released the Next Generation First Responder Integration Handbook in February as a guide to industry and public safety agencies on development, design, test and integration of responder technologies.
News Release: S&T Calls for Technology Submissions
DHS S&T wants to evaluate technology solutions for first responders. S&T released today a Request for Information for participation in the Next Generation First Responder -- Harris County Operational Experimentation.
Cyber Security R&D Program a Launching Pad for New Solutions
DHS S&T drives a wide range of research and development (R&D) initiatives and steers the resulting innovative solutions into use by the intended end-user.
Innovative Training Improves Aviation Security
ScreenADAPT®, a collaborative research and development effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and TSA, is just one of several projects S&T has developed that is now in operational use with DHS components and first responders.
Snapshot: S&T Uses AI to Predict Criminal Aircraft
http://scienceCurrently, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is developing a Predictive Threat Model (PTM) to help CBP’s Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC) more quickly and efficiently identify and stop nefarious aircraft.
News Release: DHS S&T Announces 5 Finalists in $300K Biothreat Prize Competition
Issued by DHS S&T, and in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration Center, the challenge called for the design of an early warning system that uses existing data to uncover emerging biothreats.
News Release: DHS S&T Partners With James Madison University
Students from James Madison University (JMU) will be tackling air travel security issues for DHS S&T as part of their spring semester of the Hacking 4 Defense (H4D) class.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $5.6M to Improve Cybersecurity Research
DHS S&T awarded a total of $5,643,466 across seven organizations to develop new tools to arm researchers with the latest insight and an increased collection of cybersecurity incident data to understand and counter cyber attacks.
S&T-Funded Tools Help Get Ahead of Storms
The HV-X platform integrates forecast and planning data to provide emergency managers with decision support tools for use in advance of and during tropical weather.
S&T Smart City Thoughts: Gearing Up for the Global City Teams Challenge Kickoff Event
From February 6-7, DHS S&T will cohost the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) kickoff event to discuss solutions in smart cities and potential internet of things (IoT) impacts on cybersecurity and privacy.
Snapshot: How Coast Guard Response Is Benefitting from S&T’s University Partnerships
Using this visual, user-centered platform, USCG decision makers could spot the stations most capable of responding to the disaster and helped prioritize the restoration of stations in need of repair.
Snapshot: 2017 Critical Incident Exercise Tests Tech
During this exercise, the agencies tested and evaluated not only tactics, techniques and procedures, but also the efficacy of emergent relevant technologies.
Israel & US: A Unique Partnership in Science, Technology and Business
With its multiple projects and thanks to its partnership with the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, S&T actively collaborates with Israel.
Join us Thursday to discuss S&T’s search and rescue tool
At the beginning of the year, I spoke about S&T’s New Year’s Resolutions, particularly the implementation of CHAMPS.
Snapshot: Security at the Speed of Life
DHS S&T is developing a millimeter wave imager that will screen for potential threat items unobtrusively as people pass by, without slowing them down.
News Release: S&T Awards $750K to InferLink to Enhance Search Functionality of IMPACT Cybersecurity Research Database
DHS S&T has awarded a $750,000 contract to El Segundo, California-based InferLink Corporation to develop an advanced search functionality for the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) cybersecurity research portal.
S&T and Israeli Partners Call for Proposals on Advanced First Responder Technologies
Applications are now being accepted for the NextGen First Responder Technologies solicitation, an opportunity for a maximum conditional grant of up to $1 million, jointly funded by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate and the Israel Ministry of Public Security.
Snapshot: S&T helps create the next USCG Cutter Polar Ice Breaker
S&T’s Office of Standards understood the need to gather in-depth data to determine how to construct the next-generation icebreaker. To do that, they needed to see, first hand, how changes to the current construct reacted to ice.
News Release: DHS and Audubon NY Conduct Christmas Bird Count at Plum Island
The federal agency signed a formal Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) allowing the avian conservation organization access to take monthly counts of birds that utilize the 840 acres of Plum Island
S&T’s New Year’s Resolution: CHAMPS
S&T wants to continually improve our role as a leader in providing technical solutions to the entire homeland security enterprise.
News Release: S&T Seeks Innovators to Collaborate on Smart Cities Tech
DHS S&T and its research and development (R&D) partners today issued a Request for Innovators (RFI) seeking to prototype, test and transition cutting-edge emergency response technologies.
Snapshot: S&T TTP Program Moved 10 Technologies to Marketplace in FY17
What a year! Starting October 2016 through this past September, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Transition to Practice (TTP) program commercialized, spun off or released as open source 10 new cybersecurity technologies.
News Release: S&T Awards $350K to Spur Cybersecurity Info-Sharing
DHS S&T has awarded 418 Intelligence Corporation of Herndon, Virginia $350,000 to develop a forecasting platform that will help critical infrastructure owners and system operators share and keep abreast of the latest developments in cybersecurity protection.