Published 10 December 2020
DHS S&T is launching Hacking for Homeland Security(H4HS) to provide DHS with the capability to drive innovative solutions and identify future interns with applied knowledge to work on DHS mission-relevant topics.H4HSis modeled on Hacking for Defense (H4D). The national academic course is taught at 54 universities and represents a new platform for national service, teaching teams of university students how to use modern entrepreneurial tools and techniques to solve critical national security and intelligence community problems at start-up speed.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is working to speed development of solutions for our most pressing homeland security challenges with the launch of an entrepreneurship program called Hacking for Homeland Security (H4HS). “S&T identifies, develops, and adapts technologies to meet the most pressing needs of DHS components and first responders,” S&T says. “Through innovation, and discovery and development of new, creative ideas, S&T identifies effective, game changing technologies to address homeland security needs.”