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News Release: Funding Awarded for School Age Trauma Training
DHS S&T and FEMA awarded funding to the not-for-profit National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health to deliver free, lifesaving trauma training to high school age students.
News Release: DHS S&T, Dutch Partners Award $2.5M for Cyber R&D
DHS S&T and its counterparts in the Netherlands jointly announced today a total of $2.5 million in collaborative cybersecurity research and development (R&D) across five U.S-Dutch research teams.
News Release: Winners Announced in CG Challenge for Boater Safety
Winners were announced today for Phase I of the U.S. Coast Guard Ready for Rescue Challenge.
Snapshot: S&T Tech Assesses Bridge Safety after Powerful Storms
Loose or loosening soil is often the culprit in weakening bridge stability. Thus, an instrument that can quickly assess the soil conditions around bridge pillars became a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), as well as state and local governments.
Recognizing a Year in Critical Infrastructure Innovation
This November, DHS S&T recognizes the importance of increasing the resilience of our most core societal functions in an ever-changing technological landscape.
News Release: S&T Awards $1.27M to Improve Cybersecurity Investments
DHS S&T has awarded a total of $1,272,320 across two universities to develop new solutions to improve the capability of organizations to understand and improve their cybersecurity control investment decisions.
Snapshot: S&T, N.C. Partner to Test Flood Sensors, Build Resilience
To mitigate the impact of flood disasters, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has initiated multiple projects across the nation through its Flood Apex Program.
Ensuring the Security and Resiliency of Our Schools
As Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month kicks off, I want to talk about one component of infrastructure in particular—our schools—and a new technology S&T just released that will help protect not only the physical buildings, but also the individuals within them.
Snapshot: Detecting Drones Through Machine Learning, Cameras
Combined with machine learning, however, a camera can tell a different story. Today, this budding technology is helping the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Sandia National Laboratories create more precise drone detection capability through visuals alone.
News Release: New Virtual Training Gives FR and Educators an ‘EDGE’ on School
The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment, a virtual training platform, allows teachers, school staff, law enforcement officers, and others tasked with school security to create and practice response plans for a wide range of critical incidents. The tool is free.
News Release: DHS S&T Announces Second Biometric Technology Rally
DHS S&T is calling for submissions to a Biometric Technology Rally scheduled for Spring 2019.
Snapshot: S&T is Creating a Market for Affordable International Responder Tech
DHS S&T hosted the first North American International Forum to Advance First Responder Innovation (IFAFRI) Industry Stakeholder Summit to advance the development of affordable, innovative technology for the more than 7.5 million first responders across IFAFRI member nations.
Snapshot: What’s next for aviation screening?
S&T is pursuing transformative research and development activities that support a future vision for increasing security effectiveness while dramatically reducing wait times and improving the overall passenger experience.
Snapshot: S&T Seeks Answers to Cyber-Risk Economics Questions
S&T's Cyber Risk Economics program funds applied research and development knowledge products and interdisciplinary convening efforts concerning improving the cybersecurity posture of the nation's critical infrastructure and vital data assets.
Snapshot: S&T Provides Real-Time Tech Solutions For Hurricanes
Several S&T technologies, already in place in many communities, deployed with emergency managers, first responders, and decision makers to predict storm activity, provide alerts, support timely decisions, and keep communication lines open during recent major hurricanes, including Florence and Michael.
Snapshot: Public Safety Agencies Pilot Artificial Intelligence to Aid in First Response
DHS S&T partnered with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop the Assistant for Understanding Data through Reasoning, Extraction, and Synthesis (AUDREY), a state-of-the-art human-like reasoning system designed to assist first responders in synthesizing high-level data while at the scene of an emergency..
Snapshot: S&T Founds DHS-Wide AI and ML Community of Interest
Considering different forms of innovation are rapidly shaping today’s world, few are more consequential than artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These have a growing impact on many aspects of daily life, powering technologies that benefit health, finance, public safety, and recreation.
Snapshot: S&T’s Modernized Technology R&D Process
The new approach simplifies the application process, more clearly defines homeland security needs, and increases communication throughout the process. Overall, S&T reduced the time from submission to award by more than five months.
News Release: Israeli Morphisec Gets $200K for Cybersecurity Tech
DHS S&T announced that Israel-based Morphisec has been awarded $200,000 to develop technology solutions to prevent cyberattacks on financial institutions.
Snapshot: Testing for Homemade Explosives Keep Travelers Safe
To keep the nation ahead of emerging threats, the DHS S&T takes on rigorous explosives threat detection research through its various dedicated labs and projects.
News Release: DHS S&T Reveals New Business Model and Organizational Structure
DHS S&T today begins a new approach to its research and development mission with a new organizational structure that will improve its ability to more rapidly transition technology capabilities into operations and enable it to quickly respond to emerging threats.
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Today marks the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, also known as NCSAM.
News Release: DHS Selects Texas A&M as Lead for Cross Border COE
DHS S&T announced today the selection of Texas A&M University to lead a consortium of U.S. academic institutions and other partners for a new COE for Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS).
News Release: S&T Develops Terrorism Prevention Research Findings Dashboard
To counter the continually growing and changing threat of violent extremism, DHS S&T has developed a free and publicly accessible research findings dashboard that hosts more than 1,500 cataloged terrorism prevention and countering violent extremism research documents.
New Solutions to Strengthen Hurricane Resilience
This week, DHS S&T co-hosted an outreach event with the Congressional Smart Cities Caucus to highlight how new technology can support hurricane resilience and save lives.