How DHS encourages software startups to remember their bills of material
Summary
Now the Science and Technology Directorate of the Homeland Security Department is aiming to help with the whole software provenance and supply chain issues. Now the Science and Technology Directorate of the Homeland Security Department is aiming to help with the whole software provenance and supply chain issues. The Silicon Valley Innovation Program was stood up about six or seven years ago, because the department knew that it was having trouble reaching technology and start talent from the startup community. Phase one tends to be, we’ve all met companies and people who have beautiful resumes who couldn’t ship anything if their life depended on it. So the ability to select from a multitude and fund multiple ones in order to solve the problem, has been really helpful not just us, obviously, and more importantly to our component partners at CISA.