The following is an excerpt from an article by Tom Temin of Federal News Network.
The Department of Homeland Security Department’s (DHS) 22 operating divisions deal with a world that’s changing both rapidly and non-linearly. They depend on the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate to make things incrementally better for current concepts of operations.
Beyond that, the directorate “also has to provide some clarity into whether tomorrow is going to be different and whether the models we have today, in how we approach everything we do, scale to where the world is going,” said Dimitri Kusnezov, DHS’s undersecretary for science and technology.
Balancing the needs of the immediate while understanding where things are headed long term – that’s “the balancing act we have to manage,” Kusnezov said in an interview.
Tackling Government Challenges Through Science and Technology, sponsored by Noblis, is a Federal News Network podcast series highlighting how field experts are working to solve a mission-related challenge by applying science and technology. In the last episode the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health director, Renee Wegrzyn, talked about how the agency is embarking on a mission to tackle far-reaching health problems.