The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) mission is to enable effective, efficient, and secure operations across the agency by applying scientific, engineering, analytic, and innovative approaches to deliver appropriate solutions that support each DHS Component's unique needs. Two of S&T's ongoing initiatives are to help DHS enhance its abilities to effectively and securely monitor the trade commodities that regularly come into the U.S. and to digitize credentials that are currently available only in paper format in order to prevent fraud, smuggling, counterfeiting, and forgery. To achieve these goals, S&T's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is piloting the development of interoperable blockchain standards and specifications. "DHS, like everyone else, obtains its technology from the private sector, and ensuring the existence of a competitive ecosystem of solution providers is very important to prevent vendor and technology lock-in," said Anil John, technical director of SVIP. "SVIP, thru its investments, is motivating and shaping product development of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to ensure that a foundation of security, privacy, and interoperability exists when those capabilities are deployed to meet DHS's unique specifications and needs. Our end goal is to develop architecture and standards that will enable relevant organizations and agencies to choose their own technologies and IT infrastructures, particularly when they need to interoperate with DHS." In its ongoing effort to develop, pilot, and prove the efficacy of its blockchain standards for DHS, SVIP is working with multiple innovative blockchain start-ups focused on both supply chain security and digital credentialing. | | | | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security ·
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