Thank you for your interest in the Silicon Valley Innovation Program's (SVIP's) Securing Soft Targets topic call virtual Industry Day. If you missed our event, here's a quick recap and next steps.

We are seeking startups to address new and emerging threats both in the United States and around the world by finding cutting-edge solutions that improve DHS’s ability to detect risks and deter threats to places where large crowds may gather. SVIP is offering funding for early-stage startups with commercial technologies that are adaptable and capable to protect the homeland.  Applications must be able to describe alignment to at least one of the following technical topic areas.

1. Broad, Flexible, Anomaly Detection: The development of anomaly detection that is accurate, flexible, and sufficiently broad to cover the needs of a variety of soft target sites.
2. Challenges from Occlusion, Lighting, and Distance: Implementation of video analytics systems with objective performance, while navigating the challenges presented by occlusion, lighting, and distance.
3. Real-time Performance: Development of systems, composed of appropriate Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and other components in innovative hardware architectures to serve as a platform for novel software algorithms, that offer real-time performance for a specific set of object identifications in a suite of video data, with accuracy increasing over time.

More details can be found at the links below.

This opportunity is open to U.S. and international startups that meet the following requirements:

• Fewer than 200 employees or full-time equivalents
• Must not have been a party to any FAR-based contract and/or federally awarded grant (including the Small Business Innovation Research program) with a combined total of more than $1,000,000 in the past 12 months

Next Steps

• Register for a DUNS number (required)
• Review the solicitation, applications, and FAQs (required)
• Watch the Industry Day recording
• Review the Industry Day Presentation.pdf

Submission deadlines are April 28 and August 29, 2022, by 12:00 pm noon PT/3:00 pm ET.

Please email SVIP with your questions.