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S&T Proactively Preparing for African Swine Fever
With up to a 100 percent mortality rate in pigs, African Swine Fever continues to spread in Asia, Europe and Africa. DHS S&T is meeting this emerging threat now with a newly published Master Question List.
News Release: S&T Releases New Information Resource to Address African Swine Fever Proactively
S&T released today the ASF Master Question List (MQL), a comprehensive resource that provides an up-to-date authoritative summary of publicly available information about the virus to promote coordinated research and improved emergency response preparedness.
News Release: S&T Awards Start-up Funding for Self-Screening TSA Checkpoints
DHS S&T SVIP announces $199,950 in Phase 1 funding to Lauretta AI, LLC, a start-up based in Arlington, Massachusetts, to adapt their video analytic solution to meet TSA’s needs.
News Release: DHS Trains California Fire Services on Situational Awareness Application
DHS S&T recently conducted a virtual training on its Team Awareness Kit (TAK) that provides such features as video sharing, location tracking of fire equipment, fire perimeters from aircraft, and fire model forecasts.
Feature Article: NYC Initiatives for Safeguarding the Nation’s Public Transit Systems
DHS S&T has partnered with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City to study how simulated coronavirus aerosols travel through buses and train cars to inform disinfection and other virus mitigation methods.
Celebrating the Scientific Contributions of Women and Girls
Today, we mark the 6th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science, but we honor them and reap the benefits of their work every day of the year.
News Release: S&T Awards to Develop Security and Privacy Testing of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
DHS S&T has awarded $198,600 to AppCensus, a start-up based in El Cerrito, California, to develop testing and validation services for digital contact tracing applications.
Feature Article: Air Domain Awareness at the Northern Border
The capability to detect, track, and identify aerial-based threats is more commonly known as air domain awareness.
News Release: DHS Seeks to Improve Communication Between Public Safety Agencies
DHS S&T and CISA jointly announced today that the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute will spearhead a $268,000 project to develop interoperability standards for Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems used by the Nation’s public safety agencies.
Feature Article: We Do the Science—Securing the Homeland
Crucially important work is accomplished through deploying S&T’s advanced lab-based technical expertise and capabilities in research, development, test and evaluation.
Introducing S&T’s 2021 Strategic Plan
The DHS S&T 2021 Strategic Plan—a guiding document indicative of how we’ve changed and evolved at S&T since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News Release: S&T Announces $36.5M Funding Opportunity for New COE
DHS S&T announces $36.5 million funding opportunity for a new DHS Center of Excellence: Engineering Secure Environments from Targeted Attacks.
News Release: DHS Awards for First Responder Emergency Alerts Technology Development
DHS S&T today announced it awarded more than $1.5 million to develop an Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) Guidance Tool.
Feature Article: S&T Joins Coalition Seeking to ‘Flush’ out COVID-19 in Wastewater
S&T is working with NIST and the University of Louisville to develop guidelines to standardize Wastewater-Based Epidemiology testing methods nationwide.
News Release: U.S. and Israeli Partners Announce Awards for Homeland Security Technologies
The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation is announcing awards for two collaborative projects totaling $1.5 million to develop advanced homeland security technologies in the areas of threat detection and 3D mapping.
Following the Science: Securing the Nation’s Reopening and Recovery
In collaboration with our whole-of-government partners, this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) S&T is hosting a series of virtual conversations that show how S&T is investing in new ideas and technologies to keep you safe.
News Release: Field Tests Demonstrate Precision of Groundbreaking Firefighter Tracking Technology
S&T and NASA JPL successfully tested the Precision Outdoor and Indoor Navigation and Tracking for Emergency Responders (POINTER) technology at the Veteran’s Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
News Release: S&T Seeks Industry Participation in Battle Against Opioids
DHS S&T is working with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on a multi-phase study to improve detection of synthetic opioids.
News Release: Airport Screening While Wearing Masks Test
A controlled scenario test by DHS S&T shows promising results for facial recognition technologies to accurately identify individuals wearing protective face masks.
Celebrating the Pursuit of Knowledge in the New Year
In honor of Trivia Day, take a moment and learn some fun facts about S&T.
Good Riddance 2020
A special thank you to the staff of DHS S&T, our government, private sector, and academic partners, and those who have served on the front lines to keep our nation safe and healthy, and a toast to all the amazing things that 2021 will hopefully bring!
News Release: S&T Publishes the Resilient PNT Conformance Framework
DHS S&T published the Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Conformance Framework today. PNT services, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), is a national critical function that enables many applications within the critical infrastructure sectors.
News Release: DHS Partners with NYSTEC to Advance Homeland Security Solutions
DHS S&T is partnering with the non-profit NYSTEC to leverage its extensive public safety network of state and local law enforcement and transit authorities within the Northeast Region of the United States.
News Release: DHS Partners with RTI to Advance Homeland Security Solutions
DHS S&T is partnering with non-profit RTI International (RTI) to tap into its existing relationships with Southeast Region of the United States technology-based economic organizations, start-up accelerators, and industry.
News Release: DHS SBIR 21.1 Solicitation Opens for Proposal Submission
DHS SBIR Solicitation is now open for small businesses to submit research proposals for 11 homeland security topics.