DHS Science and Technology Directorate

First responder vehicle issues has lead DHS Science and Technology Directorate to develop an app. Kimberly Jones-Holt joined the show to discuss.

FEMA’s Adrian Gardner retires after 30 years and GSA’s Dan Twomey is leaving next week after spending the last four years in government as an industry expert.

The Department of Health and Human Services now requires executives traveling anywhere overseas to take a loaner device and connect through a secure tunnel.

The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is working on technologies to enable earlier flood warnings than is now possible.

The Homeland Security Department Science and Technology Directorate’s cybersecurity division is in a more comfortable place now with many of its top research and development priorities. It’s transitioned more than 75 major projects to practice and is finding a solid footing in the Silicon Valley start-up space.

Leaders of R&D components of DHS detailed technological projects and innovation processes at a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee budgetary hearing.

The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is requiring that all researchers use its Software Assurance Marketplace to test an application before submitting it to the department. DHS S&T is also piloting a new contracting model for its work with Silicon Valley startups.

A new piece of cybersecurity technology is out from the Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate. The Network Mapping System tells users what’s connected to their networks so they know how to protect them best. It’s the third technology out of the S&T Directorate’s Transition to Practice program. DHS is licensing the system to Cambridge Global Advisors in Arlington. Michael Pozmantier is in the Transition to Practice office at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the system works.