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News Release: DHS S&T Announces 5 Finalists in $300K Biothreat Prize Competition
Issued by DHS S&T, and in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration Center, the challenge called for the design of an early warning system that uses existing data to uncover emerging biothreats.
News Release: DHS S&T Partners With James Madison University
Students from James Madison University (JMU) will be tackling air travel security issues for DHS S&T as part of their spring semester of the Hacking 4 Defense (H4D) class.
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $5.6M to Improve Cybersecurity Research
DHS S&T awarded a total of $5,643,466 across seven organizations to develop new tools to arm researchers with the latest insight and an increased collection of cybersecurity incident data to understand and counter cyber attacks.
S&T-Funded Tools Help Get Ahead of Storms
The HV-X platform integrates forecast and planning data to provide emergency managers with decision support tools for use in advance of and during tropical weather.
S&T Smart City Thoughts: Gearing Up for the Global City Teams Challenge Kickoff Event
From February 6-7, DHS S&T will cohost the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) kickoff event to discuss solutions in smart cities and potential internet of things (IoT) impacts on cybersecurity and privacy.
Snapshot: How Coast Guard Response Is Benefitting from S&T’s University Partnerships
Using this visual, user-centered platform, USCG decision makers could spot the stations most capable of responding to the disaster and helped prioritize the restoration of stations in need of repair.
Snapshot: 2017 Critical Incident Exercise Tests Tech
During this exercise, the agencies tested and evaluated not only tactics, techniques and procedures, but also the efficacy of emergent relevant technologies.
Israel & US: A Unique Partnership in Science, Technology and Business
With its multiple projects and thanks to its partnership with the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, S&T actively collaborates with Israel.
Join us Thursday to discuss S&T’s search and rescue tool
At the beginning of the year, I spoke about S&T’s New Year’s Resolutions, particularly the implementation of CHAMPS.
Snapshot: Security at the Speed of Life
DHS S&T is developing a millimeter wave imager that will screen for potential threat items unobtrusively as people pass by, without slowing them down.
News Release: S&T Awards $750K to InferLink to Enhance Search Functionality of IMPACT Cybersecurity Research Database
DHS S&T has awarded a $750,000 contract to El Segundo, California-based InferLink Corporation to develop an advanced search functionality for the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust (IMPACT) cybersecurity research portal.
S&T and Israeli Partners Call for Proposals on Advanced First Responder Technologies
Applications are now being accepted for the NextGen First Responder Technologies solicitation, an opportunity for a maximum conditional grant of up to $1 million, jointly funded by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate and the Israel Ministry of Public Security.
Snapshot: S&T helps create the next USCG Cutter Polar Ice Breaker
S&T’s Office of Standards understood the need to gather in-depth data to determine how to construct the next-generation icebreaker. To do that, they needed to see, first hand, how changes to the current construct reacted to ice.
News Release: DHS and Audubon NY Conduct Christmas Bird Count at Plum Island
The federal agency signed a formal Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) allowing the avian conservation organization access to take monthly counts of birds that utilize the 840 acres of Plum Island
S&T’s New Year’s Resolution: CHAMPS
S&T wants to continually improve our role as a leader in providing technical solutions to the entire homeland security enterprise.
News Release: S&T Seeks Innovators to Collaborate on Smart Cities Tech
DHS S&T and its research and development (R&D) partners today issued a Request for Innovators (RFI) seeking to prototype, test and transition cutting-edge emergency response technologies.
Snapshot: S&T TTP Program Moved 10 Technologies to Marketplace in FY17
What a year! Starting October 2016 through this past September, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Transition to Practice (TTP) program commercialized, spun off or released as open source 10 new cybersecurity technologies.
News Release: S&T Awards $350K to Spur Cybersecurity Info-Sharing
DHS S&T has awarded 418 Intelligence Corporation of Herndon, Virginia $350,000 to develop a forecasting platform that will help critical infrastructure owners and system operators share and keep abreast of the latest developments in cybersecurity protection.
Snapshot: New Simulator Tool Tests Aircraft Explosive Vulnerabilities
Recently, CAVM partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) to develop a reusable Aircraft Explosive Testing Simulator that facilitates the explosive testing of new generation commercial aircraft.
Happy Holidays from S&T!
S&T is fortunate to have so many incredibly talented people who put their skills to work on cutting-edge projects, and I’m eager to see what we accomplish together in 2018.
News Release: S&T Pilot Project Helps Secure First Responder Apps From Cyberattacks
A pilot project by DHS S&T resulted in the successful remediation of potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities in mobile applications (apps) used by the nation’s public-safety professionals, supporting the creation of an on-going mobile app-testing program.
Snapshot: U.S.-Canada Demonstrate Communications Interoperability Among First Responders
When disaster strikes, we rush to our phones to call friends and family near the affected area to ensure they are safe, or we take to social media for the same purpose. Thousands of people trying to communicate through the same network at the same time in the same area results in the network becoming congested, sometimes failing, leaving people frustrated and worried. Imagine this communication failure happening to first responders when they are trying to respond to a disaster. Now imagine the disaster is affecting an international border where the network coverage switches from one domestic carrier to another or completely drops. This is a serious problem first responders should not have to deal with – especially in a disaster when seamless communications are a must.
Announcing the New Innovate S&T Video Series
A couple weeks ago, I talked about the importance of public-private partnerships and how our partners are to helping S&T address challenges across critical infrastructure sectors.
Snapshot: S&T is Enhancing the Autopsy Digital Forensics Tool
Autopsy—an open-source, digital forensics platform used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to determine how a digital device was used in a crime and recover evidence—is being enhanced with the addition of several new capabilities requested by law enforcement.
Snapshot: S&T’s Rapid DNA Tech Completes DNA Testing in Minutes Instead of Months
In late November 2017, the Massachusetts Office of Chief Medical Examiner (MAOCME) issued their first official identification of a deceased person based on the accredited use of S&T's Rapid DNA technology.