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SAFETY Act
The SAFETY Act helps ensure proven and innovative anti-terrorism solutions can reach the market by capping their insurance liability.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $190K to London Startup
DHS S&T awarded $189,863 today to iProov Ltd. of London, England, to improve the screening process for international passengers. This is the first award to an international company from S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program.
News Release: S&T Announces Release of Mobile Security R&D Program Guide Vol. 2
DHS S&T today released its 2018 Mobile Security Research and Development (R&D) Program Guide that introduces the technology projects, goals and objectives and their alignment with DHS and federal mobile security strategies and priorities.
Snapshot: S&T Helps Solve Mystery of 4,000-year-old Mummy
In 1915, when American explorers entered an ancient tomb cut in the parched limestone cliffs of the eastern bank of the Nile River, 155 miles south of Cairo they were greeted by the disembodied head of a 4,000-year-old mummy.
News Release: DHS to Engage Innovative SBIR Tour
Small businesses in the innovation and development domains will have the opportunity to engage with the DHS Small Business Innovation Research program representatives in their own hometowns beginning April 16, as part of a National Road Tour sponsored by the Small Business Administration.
Snapshot: S&T Leading Development of Secure Mobile Apps
DHS S&T is working to increase mobile app security by developing innovative solutions that will extend beyond deployment of an app to provide continuous security assurance throughout an app’s lifecycle.
Media Advisory: DHS S&T to Demonstrate Cyber Technologies at RSA 2018
DHS S&T will exhibit and demonstrate 13 mature cybersecurity technology solutions that are ready for pilot deployment and commercialization at the RSA 2018 cybersecurity conference, April 16-19, in San Francisco.
Media Advisory: DHS to Demonstrate How STEM Can Protect the Nation
DHS is reaching out to future scientists, engineers, app developers, robot builders, machine learning technicians and overall big thinkers at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 6-8 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
CAUSE V Digital Op Team Responds to Tacoma Train Derailment
DHS S&T concluded the fifth Canada-U.S. Enhanced Resiliency Experiment (CAUSE V) event last year, in partnership with Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science (DRDC CSS).
Introducing the NGFR Integration Handbook
S&T collaborated with first responders and industry partners to create the Next Generation First Responder Integration Handbook, a guide for industry and public safety agencies that outlines a “plug-and-play,” standards-based environment that enables commercially developed technologies to integrate with existing first responder infrastructure.
Snapshot: DHS and EPA Are Prepared to Restore Subways in the Event of a Bioterrorist Attack
S&T and EPA conducted studies and performed exercises to see how disease-causing microbes spread through subway systems; how they can be sampled and cleaned; and how long it takes to be cleaned.
News Release: DHS S&T Announces Licensing of a Data-Analysis Tool
DHS S&T today announced the seventh technology commercialization through S&T’s Transition to Practice (TTP) Program since the start of the current fiscal year.
Snapshot: Monitoring Kentucky Dams -- Protecting Waterfront Communities
The Kentucky Division of Water and S&T’s Flood Apex program are working together to establish a means of monitoring dams and alerting the communities and property owners of potential dangers.
SBIR Road Tour – Coming to a City Near You
The SBIR program helps DHS and other federal agencies foster greater innovation for research and development programs.
Snapshot: S&T Analytics Helping to Secure U.S. Skies
Airborne illegal entry issues call for expert input from a broad range of public, private, and interagency partners.
News Release: S&T Announces Release of New Cybersecurity Research Portfolio and Technology Guides
DHS S&T has released two new guides that will boost opportunities to transition its mature cybersecurity solutions and spur community discussion about its research and development (R&D) priorities.
Snapshot: DHS S&T Keeps the Super Bowl Safe
More than 66,000 football fans poured into U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis this past February and were able to enjoy the nation's 52nd Super Bowl in a safe and secure setting.
Snapshot: S&T and HSI Collaborate on Technologies to Save Children from Abuse and Exploitation
DHS S&T and DHS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Cyber Crimes Center (C3), Child Exploitation Investigations Unit are collaborating on automated recognition programs that can help comb through the seized materials.
News Release: DHS Announces 2018 Cyber Student Applications Deadline
DHS reminds interested student candidates that the window for submitting applications for the 2018 Secretary’s Honors Program Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative will close at 3 p.m. (EST) March 15.
See You at IWCE and SXSW
DHS S&T is hitting the road over the next couple of weeks! We are heading to two events to better reach key audiences who can help us tackle homeland security challenges.
News Release: DHS S&T Releases Responder Tech Integration Handbook for Feedback
DHS S&T publicly released the Next Generation First Responder Integration Handbook in February as a guide to industry and public safety agencies on development, design, test and integration of responder technologies.
News Release: S&T Calls for Technology Submissions
DHS S&T wants to evaluate technology solutions for first responders. S&T released today a Request for Information for participation in the Next Generation First Responder -- Harris County Operational Experimentation.
Cyber Security R&D Program a Launching Pad for New Solutions
DHS S&T drives a wide range of research and development (R&D) initiatives and steers the resulting innovative solutions into use by the intended end-user.
Innovative Training Improves Aviation Security
ScreenADAPT®, a collaborative research and development effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and TSA, is just one of several projects S&T has developed that is now in operational use with DHS components and first responders.
Snapshot: S&T Uses AI to Predict Criminal Aircraft
http://scienceCurrently, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is developing a Predictive Threat Model (PTM) to help CBP’s Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC) more quickly and efficiently identify and stop nefarious aircraft.