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Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) Science and Technology Directorate Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) The S&T Directorate's mission is to improve homeland security by providing to customers state-of-the-art technology that helps them achieve their missions. S&T customers include the operating components of the Department, State, local, Tribal and territorial emergency responders and officials. www.dhs.gov/scienceandtechnology S&T Programs American National Standards Institute – Homeland development efforts in the private sector that are aligned Security Standards Database’s (ANSI-HSSD) goal is to to detailed operational requirements from Department S&T Collaboration in Data and Visual Analytics both provide a single, comprehensive source for standards that stakeholders. The Commercialization Office also internally within the DHS research community as well as relate to homeland security. To meet this goal, ANSI spearheads DHS S&T’s outreach efforts that inform the externally enables S&T to leverage both its funding and partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, private sector on “How to do business with DHS.” See technical expertise by taking advantage of research standards developing organizations, and other http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1234194479267 activities underway in government laboratories, industry stakeholders to identify and classify those standards that .shtm. Contact: [email protected], 1- laboratories, and in universities across the world. In 2008, are pertinent to the area of homeland security. This effort (202) 254-6749. S&T’s Command, Control, and Interoperability Division deals with the area of first responders and was organized (CCI) established a five-year joint program with the in cooperation with the Responder Knowledge Base and Cyber Security Research and Development Center National Science Foundation (NSF) on the Foundations of uses the Standardized Equipment List (SEL) from the (CSRDC) S&T has the mission to conduct research, Visual and Data Analytics. In 2009, CCI contributions were Interagency Board as the basis for the classification development, test and evaluation, and timely transition matched more than twofold by NSF, and 16 universities structure. See www.hsd.us/ or contact Karen Hughes, (RDTE&T) of cyber security capabilities to operational units have been awarded research grants. Additionally, DHS has Director, Homeland Security Standards, ANSI within DHS, as well as Federal, State, local and critical signed formal international collaboration agreements ([email protected]). infrastructure sector operational end-users for homeland between Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, security purposes. As part of its cyber security mission, discussions with France are underway and will be Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) is a component DHS/S&T has established the Cyber Security Research and formalized this year. These efforts have resulted in the of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. It is an Development Center (CSRDC). DHS/S&T utilizes CSRDC to development of joint scientific and technical projects in alert system that will have the capability to deliver focus cyber security RDTE&T efforts and to involve the visualization and data analytics. For more information, relevant, timely, effective, and targeted alert messages to best practices and personnel from academic private contact [email protected]. the public through cell phones, blackberries, pagers, and industry and federal and national laboratories. The Cyber other mobile devices. This national capability will ensure Security R&D Center was established by DHS in 2004 to American National Standards Institute – Homeland more people receive Presidential, Imminent Threat, and develop security technology for protection of the U.S. Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) has as its mission to AMBER alerts. In support of this effort, the first CMAS cyber infrastructure. For example, the Linking the Oil and identify existing consensus standards, or, if none exist, Forum was recently held. The purpose of the Forum was Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security (LOGIIC) project, assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and to convene the alerts and warnings community-including which addresses security vulnerability issues related to the those sectors requesting assistance to accelerate message originators, emergency responder organizations, oil and gas industry’s Process Control Systems (PCS) and development and adoption of consensus standards critical industry organizations, academia, and organizations Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems. The to homeland security. The ANSI-HSSP promotes a positive, representing special needs populations-to address critical comprehensive monitoring system developed in LOGIIC cooperative partnership between the public and private issues and determine next steps for the CMAS Research, provides an integrated, multi-component security solution sectors in order to meet the needs of the nation in this Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) program. that monitors a PCS for abnormal activity. The Center critical area. Participation in the ANSI-HSSP is open to Action teams based around the initiatives that came out of conducts its work through partnerships between representatives of industry, government, professional the CMAS Forum were created and are being populated. government and private industry, the venture capital societies, trade associations, standards developers, and http://www.cmasforum.com/, contact community, and the research community. This web site consortia groups directly involved in U.S. Homeland [email protected]. provides information about this and other DHS S&T Security standardization. For additional information visit projects, workshop information and presentations, www.ansi.org/hssp or contact Karen Hughes, Director, Commercialization Office is responsible for the cybersecurity news, events and outreach information. See Homeland Security Standards, ANSI ([email protected]). development and implementation of a commercialization http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/, contact [email protected]. process and for the execution of two innovative public- private partnerships that leverage research and 41 Science and Technology Directorate Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) The Management System Supporting Technology Evaluation Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is a DETER testbed was jointly funded by S&T and the National Program (NIMS STEP) evaluates the adherence of products funding mechanism for original research that addresses Science Foundation (NSF) and has been open to the to the EDXL suite of standards. NIMS STEP provides DHS capability gaps, which are specified in Part I of its research community since March 2004. The centerpiece industry with an independent third party evaluation of announcement under Research Areas of Strategic Interest. of the experimental environment is a safe (quarantined), products, devices, systems, and data management tools – It also funds original research that advances the but realistic, network testbed based on a mesh of clusters including off-the-shelf hardware and software – that foundations of technical knowledge in the basic sciences. of homogeneous experimental nodes. DETER is a critical support emergency managers and responders in decision Successful submissions to the Long Range BAA answer national cyber-security experimental infrastructure which making prior to, and during, emergency operations. questions such as, “What research problem do you enables users to study and evaluate a wide range of Evaluation activities are designed to help expand propose to solve? How is your solution different from and computer security technologies including encryption, technology solutions, and provide the emergency superior to currently available solutions or from the efforts pattern detection, intrusion tolerant storage protocols, management/response community with a comprehensive of others to achieve a similar solution? What data and next generation network simulations; as well as, develop process to assist in the purchasing of incident analysis do you have to support the contention that and share educational material and tools to train the next management products. See http://www.oasis-open.org to funding your R&D project will result in a significant generation of cyber-security experts. Existing testing find more information on the EDXL suite of standards and increase in capability for DHS?” All of S&T’s divisions and facilities cannot handle experiments on a large enough http://www.nimsstep.org to find more information on the special programs receive and evaluate submissions, as scale to represent today’s operational networks or the NIMS STEP. appropriate, through the Long Range BAA. For submission portion of the Internet that might be involved in a security instructions, evaluation criteria, and to apply online, visit: attack. Industry has only been able to test and validate FirstResponder.gov's mission is to provide a portal that https://baa.st.dhs.gov/. new security technologies in small- to medium-scale enables Federal, State, local, and tribal first responders to private research laboratories that do not adequately easily access and leverage federal web services, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) simulate a real networking environment. Newsletters, information on resources, products, standards, testing and Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management published papers, videos and update presentations
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