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Feature Article: 22 Questions to Start Off 2022
Following a year of change and growth, S&T Is looking ahead.
What We Learned in 2021: A Year in Review
The following is just a sampling of the types of work S&T does, and of our successes in 2021.
Feature Article: Building Community Climate Resilience with Compound-Flood Modeling Tools
S&T is working to help communities plan for and respond to the effects of climate change.
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.
S&T’s 2021 Wrapped
An analysis of our top content for 2021 reveals what topics resonated most with our audiences.
News Release: S&T Awards Funding for Aviation Self-Screening Concept and Prototype
S&T Screening at Speed Program announced funding to develop a passenger self-screening concept design and prototype to streamline TSA PreCheck® operations.
Feature Article: Tapping the Nation’s Competitive Spirit for Innovative Solutions
S&T is using a time-tested approach to find innovative technology solutions: prize competitions.
News Release: S&T Seeks Information on Body Cameras with Automatic Activation
DHS S&T released a RFI seeking information on commercially available body cameras that feature the ability to automatically begin recording based on sensors triggered by surrounding events.
Feature Article: Ensuring Coast Guard Can ‘Strike’ Fast During HAZMAT Incidents
S&T's Chemical Security Analysis Center provides Coast Guard with comprehensive assessment of chemical-detection capabilities.
News Release: DHS S&T Launches the 2022 HS Power Program
DHS S&T launched the competition for graduate and undergraduate students across the U.S. to participate in the 2022 Homeland Security Professional Opportunities for the Student Workforce to Experience Research (HS-POWER) program.
News Release: S&T Awards Funding to Optimize S&T Projects
DHS S&T issued a combined $1,319,980 funding award to the University of Southern California (USC) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for the S&T Analysis and Management of Innovation Activity (STAMINA) III project.
News Release: DHS Announces Deadline Extension for Prize Competition
DHS announced the deadline for submissions for the DHS Cooling Solutions Challenge has been extended to February 24, 2022.
News Release: DHS S&T Releases New Master Question List for Synthetic Opioids
DHS S&T has released a new Master Question List (MQL) for Synthetic Opioids.
Asking the Right Questions About Synthetic Opioids
S&T's Master Question List for Synthetic Opioids consolidates information and knowledge gaps to better focus investments on the most useful R&D.
Feature Article: Balance of Power—Building a Resilient Electric Grid
S&T has teamed up with industry and one of the nation’s largest (and windiest) cities to study how technology can help keep the lights on during emergencies.
Thankful for Our Friends Around the World and Here at Home
S&T has a long history of partnering with allies to develop innovative ideas, share diverse insights, and deploy new capabilities.
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.
Feature Article: A Secure Environment to Create the Future of Cybersecurity Solutions
S&T and CISA are partnering to develop Cybersecurity Laboratory to promote research, collaboration, and testing.
Training a Resilient Workforce to Secure our Critical Infrastructure
S&T is partnering with CISA, CIRI Center of Excellence, and industry innovators to build the next generation workforce.
News Release: S&T Awards funds to Detect Vehicle-Borne Explosives
Block MEMS, LLC, to develop technology that can detect Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices before they enter stadiums, parking structures, and other soft targets.
FFRDC Sponsor Summit Signals Excellence Through Partnership
Event explored how critical partnerships drive homeland security mission excellence.
News Release: S&T Funds Interoperable Messaging Capability for First Responders
Award to Mobility 4 Public Safety will advance the development of the Bridge 4 Public Safety messaging and collaborating platform.
News Release: DHS Selects Northeastern As COE for Engineering Secure Environments
Northeastern University will lead a consortium of U.S. academic institutions and other partners for a new Center of Excellence for Engineering Secure Environments from Targeted Attacks.
Protecting Critical Infrastructure Is a Top S&T Priority
Throughout November, S&T will observe Infrastructure Security Month, a public-awareness campaign sponsored by our colleagues at CISA to safeguard the nation’s infrastructure.
News Release: DHS Lab NUSTL Receives Patent for Remote Alarm
Two inventors from S&T laboratory ’s National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) were awarded a patent for new emergency responder technology.