Department of Homeland Security
Pre‐solicitation: November 13, 2024 – December 11, 2024
Open: December 17, 2024
Close: January 21, 2025, 1:00 pm, ET
The following are the topics for the FY25 SBIR Program:
DHS251-001 – Fentanyl Attribution Forensics/Source Profiling
OBJECTIVE: Develop innovative forensic capabilities to enable the rapid correlation and linkage of fentanyl
samples obtained from law enforcement seizures, crime scenes, and other drug interdiction events.
DHS251-002 – Enabling Data Analysis, Situational Awareness and Cyber Security for NG911 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP)
OBJECTIVE: Develop a technology capable of conducting near-real time monitoring and data analysis on
NG911 system status to include call volume, degradation of services, outage, detecting and alerting cyber threats,
sharing of AI/ML datasets between PSAP.
DHS251-003 – On-Person Screening Stream of Commerce Analysis Tool
OBJECTIVE: Develop video analysis tool to identify airline passenger characteristics such as height, weight,
clothing article types, shoe types, and visible accessories in real time without any image data or other personally
identifiable information and characteristics being collected or stored.
DHS251-004 – Securing Video Communications to Prevent Digital Injection Attacks
OBJECTIVE: Develop innovative software that can secure multiparty video interactions and defeat known digital
injection attacks.
DHS251-005 – Wired Interconnection Cable/Adapter from Mobile Device to Biometric Collection
OBJECTIVE: Develop a portable biometric capture device interconnection cable/adapter that supports, at
minimum, Lightning and USB-C, that enables a hardwired/tethered data transfer and power connection between a
mobile phone and commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) compatible biometric capture device.
SBIR Topic Proposal Structure
Phase I
$175,000
5 months
Phase II
$1,000,000 – $1,500,000
24 months – 36 months