Data Privacy

The Data Privacy Research and Development (R&D) Program helps government program managers with the research and development expertise and resources needed to enhance the security and trustworthiness of their programs.

Research Agenda

The program investigates architectures, technical approaches, studies, processes, technologies, tools, and proof-of-concepts across the following R&D topic areas:

Automating control of personal data to minimize cognitive overload and privacy risk
Addressing privacy concerns with connected devices, mobile computing, and sensor platforms
Addressing privacy concerns with big data and algorithms
Managing personally identifiable information or information deemed sensitive while protecting individual privacy
Privacy respecting anomaly detection and counter-fraud technologies with population scale applicability

We review and update these topic areas, which drive our program focus and investments, using input gathered via regular customer and community engagements

What Do We Do?

The program regularly engages with our customers and the community to identify customer needs that cannot be met with current technologies, and to understand the current state of the art and practice in the data privacy domain. As a R&D program, we are actively "looking around corners" to ensure our customers are not surprised by emerging trends or emerging issues in the future.

Analysis, Proof of Concepts, Capabilities

The results of our ongoing customer and community engagement is used to develop and update our research agenda. This agenda drives our research and development of the capabilities needed to protect cyberspace in a manner that incorporates both security and privacy.

In cases where technologies do not exist or are immature, the program makes the necessary investments in applied research, advanced development, test and evaluation, and technology transition to ensure their availability to the Homeland Security Enterprise.

The goal of the program is to develop solutions that address customer needs and have them be deployed and used operationally via successful technology transitions.

How Can We Work Together?

How can we work together? Identity Management Need to Solution available in market to Connect with solution provider. Identify management need to need-solution gap to R&D analysis, or R&D Proof of Concept, or R&D Investment

Are You a Government Program Manager?

If so, contact us to discuss your needs and challenges and to start our engagement.

It will start with a discovery process in which we work with you to understand and identify your need or the problem you are experiencing.

Results of the discovery process could result in one of two possible courses of action:

A determination that technologies currently available in the marketplace can be used to solve your problem
A determination that a capability gap exists between the current state of technologies and what you need to solve your problem

If technology meeting your need currently exists in the marketplace, we will connect you directly with potential solution providers .

Where current technology does not exist in the marketplace is where we add value as a R&D program. In such cases, we conduct analysis, proof-of-concepts, and more to develop the capabilities to solve your problem and transition solutions so you have access to it using your existing acquisition mechanisms.

In either case, we are committed to providing a way forward for you without expecting you to be an expert in data privacy, or expecting you to keep up on which technologies are currently available and which are not. We will help you navigate this whirlpool of confusion!

Are You a (Research or Technology) Solution Provider?

Are you a researcher or technology provider with innovative ideas and technologies that map to our research agenda?

If so, contact us so we can understand how they could help our customers solve their problems. In general, our interest here is focused around the following:

Technology — We wish to understand and be aware of the current state of the art and practice to ensure that we can connect our customers to vetted providers and technologies that can solve their problems
Talent — We seek to engage with talented researchers and organizations who can work with us to develop solutions to the interesting and complex needs of our customers that cannot be solved with current technologies
Transition — We are on the lookout for technology transition partners with the ability to commercialize, or incorporate into their existing product development roadmap, the technologies and solutions we fund and develop