Innovative NIST Research Enhances Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence is an omnipresent and indispensable feature of contemporary daily life. “AI” is a foundational element of our critical infrastructure. It plays a vital role in the fields of medicine and healthcare, financial networks, military and defense systems, the energy sector, manufacturing, first responder and public safety networks, communications, transportation, and other crucial systems.


Although AI immensely benefits the systems we rely on, it also presents tremendous vulnerabilities to the orderly and fast-paced world it otherwise enables.


The daily, around-the-clock attacks by bad actors upon our nation’s networks are naturally of great concern to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The cybersecurity programs of the Department’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) proactively combat these multifaceted threats.


The S&T Directorate’s Commercialization Accelerator Program is designed to play an essential part in overcoming these grave and ongoing attacks on our national security. The Commercialization Accelerator Program (CAP) is a creative and comprehensive push to identify promising technologies that address national security dangers and have strong potential to succeed after they are introduced to the marketplace. The program sponsors the research, development, testing, and evaluation of technologies, and also supports licensing, start-up creation, open-source products, and government agency use of the technologies. 


Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, DHS’s undersecretary for Science and Technology, summarized the program’s mission when he stated that “The Commercialization Accelerator Program bridges the gap between research and the marketplace, accelerating the use and expanding the availability of federally funded technologies. We are proud to leverage innovative research from labs across the federal government to support the DHS mission in addressing critical homeland security challenges.”


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