U.S. Division of Homeland Safety’s analysis and improvement wing, the Science & Expertise (S&T) Directorate, on Friday awarded $817,712 in whole to 5 blockchain startups in a bid to reimagine the federal authorities’s anti-forgery and counterfeit prevention operations.
From creating digital Social Safety Quantity options to constructing e-commerce tracing techniques, the winners have as much as six months to develop blockchain proofs-of-concepts for DHS’s shopper businesses. S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), primarily an equity-free tech accelerator inside S&T, is funding the spherical.
