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S&T Supports FEMA with Comprehensive Flood Insurance Report
DHS S&T's Flood Apex Program funded a project with the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
News Release: S&T Awards $200K to Bellevue Start-Up for Final Testing of Metamaterials Electronically Scanning Array Radar
DHS S&T today awarded Echodyne Corporation of Bellevue, Washington $200,000 to begin the final testing phase as part of S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program.
On the Road Again: Alerting First Responders and Drivers of Oncoming Roadway Hazards
DHS S&T's Automated Driver and Responder Alert System aims to drastically reduce the number of first responders killed or severely injured when they are struck by vehicles that fail to slow down or avoid incident scenes.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $200K to Sunnyvale Startup for Lidar Technology
DHS S&T awarded $200,000 to Quanergy Systems, Inc, a Sunnyvale, California-based start-up, to develop LiDAR-based technology to enhance CBP's counting and measuring capabilities in airport security and customs processing queues.
News Release: DHS Awards Intafel $168K to Develop Virtual Machine Capability
DHS S&T has awarded Intafel Corp. of Cambridge, Massachusetts $167,870 to develop a virtual machine capability to protect the operations of financial services.
News Release: New SAFETY Act Best Practices Guide Now Available
A new web-based tool can help security professionals for commercial office buildings perform assessments based on the Best Practices for Anti-Terrorism Security (BPATS) for commercial office buildings.
News Release: S&T Awards $11.6M to Defend Against Network/Internet Disruptions
Five research organizations were awarded separate contracts totaling $11,511,565 to develop new methods to identify and attribute Network/Internet-scale Disruptive Events (NIDEs), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today.
Snapshot: Datacasting for Instant Situational Awareness
DHS S&T saw a requirement to provide responders with a secure, readily accessible way to allow both the picture and the words to help responders make better decisions in a crisis.
News Release: DHS Awards $119K to LocusLabs for Intelligent Wayfinding Technology
DHS S&T announced today that LocusLabs, Inc. of Oakland, California has received $119,100 to develop wayfinding technology as part of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program.
News Release: DHS Awards Over $167K to CA Startup to Develop Tech
DHS S&T has awarded Sunnyvale, California-based Kiana Analytics, Inc. $167,686 to develop technology to enhance the CBP counting and measuring capabilities at ports of entry.
Snapshot: S&T and NIST Projects in Support of NYPD Explosive Trace Detection
DHS S&T recently took part in a demonstration of the NYPD’s FIDO X-3 Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) system, under the sponsorship of the Secondary Screening Program led by S&T Program Manager Dr. Laura Parker. This event showcased work S&T funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to optimize NYPD trace detection processes in these areas.
News Release: DHS, Coast Guard Launch $255K Prize Challenge Competition
DHS S&T, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, launched the U.S. Coast Guard Ready for Rescue Challenge, a $255,000 prize competition that seeks boater safety solutions that will help make it easier to find people in the water.
Deepening Our Understanding of Internet Outages
We recently initiated the Predict, Assess Risk, Identify (and Mitigate) Disruptive Internet-scale Network Events program, which funds research to develop innovative technologies that will reveal more about Network/internet-scale disruptive events (NIDEs). NIDEs may cause a loss or degradation of network (not necessarily internet) service and often follow natural disasters, geo-political events or the mass scale re-routing of internet traffic.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $3.5M to Improve X-Ray Detection Technology
The DHS S&T has awarded a total of nearly $3.5 million in funding to three new R&D projects designed to improve the threat detection capabilities of current X-ray technologies for checked baggage systems.
News Release: Awards $199K for Development of Energy Harvesting Fabric
DHS S&T has awarded Boston-based Protect the Force, Inc. for the development of photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting fabrics.
Snapshot: S&T Develops the First Line of Defense Against Acts of Targeted Violence
Since 2010, the U.S. government has invested more than $20 million into understanding all forms of radicalization to violence, as well as effective prevention and intervention measures. DHS S&T and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) are at the forefront of this work.
Snapshot: S&T Explores a More Dynamic Cybersecurity Approach
S&T recently demonstrated a new Federated Command and Control (FC2) infrastructure with the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) that can protect a multitude of organizations at once—a federation.
S&T is Partnering with Financial Service Organizations to Secure the Finance Sector from Cyber Threats
DHS S&T's Cyber Apex program addresses cybersecurity challenges by providing the financial services sector with technologies and tools to confront advanced adversaries by leveraging existing federally funded and private sector research efforts.
News Release: DHS Awards Va Company $200K to Begin Automated Machine Learning Prototype Test
DHS S&T announced that DataRobot, Inc. of Tysons Corner, Virginia has received $200,000 to begin testing a prototype of a machine learning platform for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Travel Assessment System.
Engaging with Public Safety and Industry at APCO
APCO is a great reminder of the real-world impact technology has for the men and women who keep our communities safe, and how communications capabilities are the backbone for effective response.
Snapshot: S&T Test Methods Used to Evaluate Rescue Robots
Since 1997, several continents have played host to an international soccer tournament. No, not the World Cup -- the RoboCup. Robots of all shapes and sizes test their “metal” in the world’s favorite sport.
News Release: DHS to Engage Small Businesses in New England
Small businesses in the research and development domain will have the opportunity to engage with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program representatives beginning August 20, in the final leg of a National Road Tour.
News Release: DHS S&T Invites First Responder Industry to Stakeholder Summit
Technology innovators are invited to an industry Stakeholder Summit, August 9 in Washington, DC, to learn about the highest priority needs of more than 7.5 million first responders in the global market.
Media Advisory: DHS S&T to Host Stakeholder Summit for First Responder Industry, August 9
On August 9, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will host an International Forum to Advance First Responder Innovation (IFAFRI) Stakeholder Summit.