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News Release: NIST Awards to Commercialize Interoperable Public Safety Communications System

NIST awarded $2,988,950 in a new round of funding for new interoperable communication systems for public safety through its SBIR program, Catalyst Communications Technologies of Forest, Virginia, was provided this Phase III award for commercialization of its interoperable communications solution.

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News Release: S&T Funds Florida Small Business to Develop COVID-19 Disinfectant

DHS S&T's SVIP has awarded $105,877 in Phase 1 funding for Bloodstone Division, LLC’s development of an anti-viral disinfectant under the SVIP Emerging Needs: COVID-19 Response & Future Mitigation solicitation.

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News Release: DHS Awards Small Businesses to Develop Machine Learning for Detection Technologies

DHS SBIR Program recently awarded funding to two small businesses to develop non-contact, inexpensive machine learning training and classification technologies.

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News Release: DHS Awards to U.S. Small Business for Homeland Security R&D

DHS S&T announced the award of 29 competitive research contracts to 25 small businesses across the United States to participate in Phase I of the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.

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Fiscal Year 2019 Small Business and Small Business Advocate Award Winners

Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, E. Darlene Bullock, is pleased to announce the winners of our 16th Annual Small Business and Small Business Advocate Awards for performance in Fiscal Year 2019.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Lost Person Locator for First Responders

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company dbS Productions of Charlottesville, Virginia, who developed an innovative and life-saving software application that enables first responders to easily see a heat map showing the area of probability for the missing person.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Explosives Detection Technology

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Polestar Technologies, Inc., of Needham Heights, Massachusetts, which developed a portable system for stand-off detection of concealed explosives to detect and identify different types of explosives.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Software Assurance Risk Management

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Applied Visions of Northport, New York, which developed Code Ray, a software assurance risk management technology that improves the speed, accuracy and confidence in detection of vulnerabilities and source code weaknesses. 

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Funding and Partnership Opportunities

S&T offers a variety of opportunities for engagement, including requests for information, calls for proposals, and announcements of other funding and unfunded partnerships.

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ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Field Detection and Analysis for Fire Gasses

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company N5 Sensors, of Rockville, Maryland, who developed an ultra-small, low-cost hazardous gas and particulate matter detector using novel chip-scale chemical sensor technology that can be used by firefighters.