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News Release: DHS Partners with DWX to Advance Homeland Security Solutions
To keep pace with rapidly emerging technologies, DHS S&T is partnering with DEFENSEWERX (DWX), a nonprofit organization focused on cultivating ecosystems that enable the acceleration of innovative solutions to benefit the nation.
News Release: S&T Expands Pilot of Cybersecurity Tech for Emergency Communications Centers
Cybersecurity defense solution provides near-real-time behavioral threat analysis of the traffic hitting an emergency communications center’s network.
News Release: Research Indicates Environment is Unlikely to Affect Transmissibility of SARS-COV-2 Variants
The deactivating effects of heat and sunlight on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are consistent across different variants of the virus, according to new research from DHS S&T.
Feature Article: Pointing to the Future of Lifesaving Firefighting Technology
POINTER will soon allow agencies to pinpoint their firefighters to within centimeters, helping to navigate them quickly and safely out of potentially disorienting emergency scenarios.
News Release: DHS S&T SVIP Awards Funding to Monitor Current and Future Biological Threats
To develop capabilities to monitor the current COVID-19 pandemic and other future biological events, DHS S&T has awarded $199,648 to Mesur.io Inc., for analysis and reporting of outbreak-related data.
News Release: S&T and Israeli Seeks Ideas for Innovative Security Solutions
The 2021 Call for Proposals seeks to develop technologies with significant commercial potential and to improve capabilities in the field of homeland security.
Feature Article: S&T Partnership Enhances Public Safety Spectrum Efficiency, Improves Interoperability
S&T’s work with APCO and NRPC is an ongoing effort that has helped enhance public safety communication capabilities; through this partnership, S&T will continue to support CAPRAD improvements to improve spectrum licensing efforts and training for public safety.
News Release: UW to Help DHS Develop COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing App Testing Criteria
DHS S&T awarded $959,305 to the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (UW-APL) to bring together a group of experts and trusted entities to develop digital contact tracing (DCT) application (app) testing criteria.
Feature Article: R&D Collaboration Leads to Award-Winning Chemical Weapons Detection Tech
SEDONA is the result of a joint research and development effort between DHS S&T and our partners at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
News Release: Grand-Prize Winner Announced in Digital Wallets Challenge
DHS S&T today announced that Dignari, a woman-owned small business from Alexandria, Virginia as the grand-prize winner of the Digital Wallets Challenge.
Focusing on Floods and the R&D Partnerships that Keep Communities Safe and Resilient
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is joining forces with federal, state, local, and international partners to leverage expertise and share best practices among flood response stakeholders.
News Release: DHS Partners with Harvard University to Support Blue Campaign
DHS S&T awarded $775,000 to the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health to conduct research and evaluate the impact of the Department’s Blue Campaign.
News Release: DHS Awards in Scientific Leadership Grants to Five Minority Serving Institutions
DHS S&T announces today the recipients of Scientific Leadership Awards who will partner with S&T-supported COE to develop Homeland Security (HS) course content and creatively engage students and faculty in research relevant to the complex challenges faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise.
News Release: DHS S&T Offers New Funding Opportunities Through LRBAA
To support DHS research and development (R&D) technology needs, DHS S&T released its annual announcement of the LRBAA.
Embracing a New Normal for COVID-era R&D
Our theme at this year’s SXSW event, “The Road to Reopening: Recovery through Research,” answers the call about what is needed from a governmental R&D organization to improve security, restore public confidence and keep our front-line workforce safe and protected.
News Release: DHS Announces Two R&D Projects to Enhance Mobile Network Traffic Security
DHS S&T and CISA are jointly announcing the final two research and development (R&D) awards for the newly launched Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure (SRMNI) project.
News Release: QuickRoute Navigation App Now Available for First Responders
DHS S&T is announcing that the QuickRoute app is available for responders to download.
Feature Article: S&T Past Research Informs Current and Future Pandemic Response
S&T Past Research with anthrax bacteria, Ebola virus and other pathogens informs current and future pandemic response.
News Release: S&T Awards Phase 1 Funding for Maritime Object Tracking Technology
DHS S&T AWARDS $153K in phase 1 funding to small business for maritime object tracking technology.
Feature Article: Leveraging Partnerships to De-escalate Conflict in Law Enforcement Encounters
DHS S&T is conducting research to learn more about these interactions, with a focus on de-escalation methods.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards Funding to Design Video Analytics for TSA Checkpoints
DHS S&T SVIP announces $196,880 in Phase 1 funding to Deep North, a start-up based in Foster City, California, to apply video analytics to airport screening processes to help minimize exposure and contact between Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and passengers.
Looking Back on 18 Years
On the 18th birthday of DHS S&T, the homeland security landscape may look a bit different in 2021 than it did in 2003, but our commitment to meeting the pressing challenges of today and tomorrow hasn’t wavered.
News Release: DHS Publishes Free Resources to Protect Critical Infrastructure From GPS Spoofing
DHS S&T announced today it has published the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Integrity Library and Epsilon Algorithm Suite to protect against Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing, or deceiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) device through false signals.
News Release: S&T Awards Minority Serving Institutions for Summer Research Projects
DHS S&T announced today that nine faculty members from S&T’s OUP Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) program have been selected to receive a total of $446,200 in funding to continue their Summer Research Team (SRT) program for research projects at several DHS S&T Centers of Excellence (COE).
News Release: DHS Announces R&D Awards to Help Secure Mobile Network Infrastructure
DHS S&T and CISA are jointly announcing the inaugural research and development (R&D) awards for the newly-launched Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure (SRMNI) project.