Department of Homeland Security Awards Blockchain Tech Development Grants for Identity Management and Privacy Protection

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded as much as $600,000 in grants to six companies working on blockchain applications for the government. According to a press release from earlier this week, the department’s Science and Technology Directorate has parceled out $3.1m in grants to 29 small businesses based in the US in areas focused on data analytics, connected devices and blockchain. Each company received about $100,000, the government said. The funds came from the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, following a solicitation period that began in....

The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the US Department of Homeland Security is supporting four small firms with funds to use Blockchain technology to support identity management. What are those Blockchain firms? Digital Bazaar, Respect Network, Narf Industries and Celerity Government Solutions will all get $100,000 each. They fall under the Applicability of Blockchain Technology to Identity Management and Privacy Protection research topic. The topic is to use Blockchain technology, which centralizes and validates new entries added into an existing data field to support....

Through a predominant public-private partnership program called Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking to understand bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security through the SBIR's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is now accepting proposals from small businesses comprising of fewer than 500 employees in at least 10 topic areas. Interestingly, the areas also cover the topics of "Applicability of Blockchain Technology to Privacy Respecting Identity Management" & "Blockchain....

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to better understand blockchain technology through the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The US cabinet department is now accepting research proposals from small businesses in 13 topic areas, including the "Applicability of Blockchain Technology to Privacy Respecting Identity Management" and "Blockchain Applications for Homeland Security Analytics". Described as a three-phase program that aims to encourage US small businesses to put efforts toward federal research, the....

The U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded Austin, Texas-based $199,000 to Factom Inc. to advance digital identity security for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The award was one of several DHS S&T awards to support the development of security solutions that involve blockchain technology. DHS S&T also announced competitive research awards for small businesses through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program DHS S&T awarded $199,000 to Factom Inc. for its project titled, “Blockchain Software to Prove....