The MOU, signed at a virtual meeting of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee, builds on a series of strategic workshops delivered jointly by NSF and NSERC in 2020 and 2021 focused on inclusive and intersectional engineering and computer science research. Keep Reading
Tech innovators which are accepted onto the program, from early-stage startups to established scaleups, will develop and pilot technology to protect the country from malicious activity, including phishing and ransomware attacks. Keep Reading
This draft report, which will be open for public comment for 60 days before being published in final form, reviews the methods that forensic laboratories use to interpret evidence containing a mixture of DNA from two or more people. Keep Reading
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) successfully tested four prototype technologies for early detection of wildfires in California this week. Keep Reading
The terrain along our northern border with Canada is vast and unique, and features a diverse array of geographical landscapes including the grasslands, prairies, and lowland plains of North Dakota and the mountains and badlands of Montana. Keep Reading
The fighters “were hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems,” according to the report, which did not say whether there were any casualties or injuries. Keep Reading
Part one of this four-part series includes on-demand discussions on preparing for the next pandemic, combatting the opioid crisis, securing public transit systems, and characterizing biological threats. Keep Reading
The Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships is the sponsor of the virtual competition with the center’s director, John Picarelli, serving as one of the five judges. Keep Reading
Current speech recognition systems work reasonably well in quiet conditions, but quickly fail when the surrounding background noise increases—as is common for first responder situations. Keep Reading
Tropical storms, hurricanes and other large coastal storms can impact seaside and inland communities and ecosystems with high winds, storm surge, erosion and flooding. These forces can destroy buildings, roads and bridges and reshape the nation’s coastline. Keep Reading
The tool’s predictions are based on temperature data from a building’s heat detectors, and, remarkably, it is designed to operate even after heat detectors begin to fail, making do with the remaining devices. Keep Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous pressures on our country's first responders who risk exposure every day. As key workers within the homeland security mission, their safety and resilience in the face of unprecedented conditions is of utmost concern and urgency to DHS S&T. Keep Reading
Each project will receive up to $150,000 from the DHS SBIR Program to conduct proof-of-concept research over a five-month period to address specific homeland security technology needs. Keep Reading
Like the rest of the country’s scientific research and development community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has been in the thick of COVID-19 mission work since the pandemic began more than a year ago. Keep Reading
DARPA announced its Enhancing Design for Graceful Extensibility (EDGE) program, which aims to create a suite of HMI design tools to be integrated into systems design processes. Keep Reading
An “unhackable” computer chip lived up to its name in its first bug bounty competition, foiling over 500 cybersecurity researchers who were offered tens of thousands of dollars to analyze it and three other secure processor technologies for vulnerabilities. Keep Reading
BioWatch’s gaps in performance and nationwide coverage mean time is of the essence for the BD21 upgrade. The impact that COVID-19 has had across the world will also not have gone unnoticed by terrorist groups, making an effective defense not only crucial but urgent. Keep Reading
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea, which authorizes the two countries to conduct a field demonstration of S&T-funded technology in civil aviation security. Keep Reading
ICAO Council President Salvatore Sciacchitano said that the UN aviation agency's Secretariat and governing Council "are acutely aware today of how important innovation will be to aviation recovery and sustainability in the pandemic's aftermath." Keep Reading
Tapping into the best and brightest minds of academia, and more specifically focusing on the unique value students and faculty from Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) offer, will usher S&T toward the workforce of the future. Keep Reading