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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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DHS S&T Says Successfully Transfers Encryption System under Transition Program The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate says that its has successfully transferred for the first time technology that it foraged under its Transition to Practice (TTP) program to the commercial market two years ahead of schedule. The agency identified a next-generation encryption system developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory that it introduced to commercial industry partners in 2013 and in Aug. 2014 was exclusively licensed…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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