Emerging Innovation

CFRSS will allow communities to explore how their specific flood risks change as future conditions, like sea levels, storm frequencies and population growth, change.

In comparison to many other funding mechanisms offered by the federal government, prize competitions are quicker with fewer constraints. Each competition is unique.

Researchers, roboticists, and technologists recently deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued an Innovative Demonstrations for Enterprise Advancement (IDEA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for transportation security solutions.

The goal of the STAMINA III project is to bridge the gap between the development of new technologies and products and their development.

The cooling challenge is being led by DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Developed with U.K. government funding, the system is being commercialized by Ploughshare via a new start-up company and will be on the market in 2022.

ViPER is based on an earlier tool developed in 2020 by NIST researchers with expertise in creating airflow and containment transport models.