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News Release: S&T Leads Smart City Tech Integration Pilot
DHS S&T conducted its final integration of smart city technologies this week in St. Louis, Missouri in collaboration with the city, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the T-REX Innovation Center (T-REX).
Snapshot: S&T-Funded SABER Helps Communities Get Back to Business
Available both on the web and via a mobile app, SABER provides users with a means to upload and share real-time business status information with other organizations, particularly government aid entities such as FEMA, during an emergency or crisis.
News Release: DHS Awards $197K for Digital Credentials That Work Offline
DHS S&T has awarded $197,020.95 Phase 1 funding to Stranger Labs, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA, to develop a digital credential solution that mitigates compromising the usability and convenience of paper-based credentials by making digital credentials verifiable offline.
News Release: S&T and Israeli Partners Announce Awards
The Israel – U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation today announced three awards for collaborative projects totaling $2.3 million to develop advanced technologies for the homeland security mission.
Snapshot: ResponderCQ Measures Disaster Resilience & Response
DHS S&T funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “Capability Quotient (CQ),” which is the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.
Kicking off 2020 with a Clear Vision
S&T has big goals, some of which I’ve outlined here, that will serve as a roadmap for the year ahead.
News Release: SBIR 20.1 Solicitation Open for Proposal Submission
Small businesses are now able to submit proposals for DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 20.1 Solicitation to address nine homeland security technology needs.
Happy Holidays from S&T
S&T has accomplished many great things this year to better DHS Components and our nation’s first responders and here are a few of my favorite things.
News Release: Prize Winners Announced in $1.55M Opioid Challenge
Today, DHS S&T, the White House ONDCP, CBP, and USPIS announced the grand prize winner and runner-up in the Opioid Detection Challenge, a $1.55 million global prize competition for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids in international mail.
Snapshot: Rapid DNA Identifies Conception Boat Fire Victims
DHS sought a technology that can quickly analyze DNA to verify family relationships (kinship) and identify victims of mass casualty events and human trafficking.