OPPORTUNITY - DHS S&T - COVID Industry Day Aug. 18

Hello,

We are reaching out to inform you of a funding opportunity being released by the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) that is open to Canadian small and medium-sized companies.

The DHS S&T Broad Call is looking for applications from industry pertaining to COVID-19. This topic call is seeking ground-breaking solutions that can address one or more of the following DHS scenarios:

• Test & Validation Service for Security & Privacy of Contact Tracing Apps
• Video Analytics for Self-Screening at TSA Checkpoints
• Methods to Rapidly Disinfect Surfaces at TSA Checkpoints and other DHS Facilities
• Collection and Integration of Authoritative Quantitative Open-Source Information
• Stand-Off Methods for Point of Entry Detection at DHS Facilities

More information on these topic calls may be found here: https://beta.sam.gov/opp/01cbeafa8c0e47428ddd30693b4c47d6/view?keywords=%22Emerging%20Needs%22&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=true&page=1&date_filter_index=0&inactive_filter_values=false&organization_id=100013095&refresh=y

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A free public virtual Industry Day is being held on Tuesday, August 18th, from 9:30 to 13:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), where representatives from the six DHS programs will speak about their use cases, technology needs, and take questions from industry. Interested companies can register here: https://sri-csl.regfox.com/svip-covid19-industryday.

To determine if your company is eligible for SVIP, please visit https://beta.SAM.gov/ . SVIP seeks applications from non-traditional government contractors, with less than 200 employees (including parent and subsidiary companies), and must not have been a DHS contractor in the past 12 months, nor have been a contractor or sub-contractor to any FAR-based contracts totalling US$1,000,000 in the past 12 months.

Thank you,

The IDEaS Team