S&T Capstone Integrated Product Team Process

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) Transition Portfolio is customer-focused and output-oriented. The Directorate's near-term efforts are aligned to our Department customers' critical needs in the form of Enabling Homeland Capabilities consisting of technologies that can be developed, matured, delivered, and commercialized or validated as a standard within a 3-year period.

A formalized, structured process, the Department Transition Program aligns investments to Agency requirements and is managed by Capstone Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). These teams consist of our Department customers and critical stakeholders and are specifically chartered to ensure that technologies are engineered and integrated into systems scheduled for delivery and made available to Department customers. Investments are competitively selected and focus on providing capabilities to Department operating components and first responders in response to the Department's highest-priority requirements.

The Department has 13 Capstone IPTs in the following functional areas:

• First Responder
• Border Security
• Cargo Security
• Maritime Security
• Cyber Security
• Information Sharing
• Interoperability
• Transportation Security
• Counter-IED
• Chemical/Biological Defense
• People Screening
• Infrastructure Protection
• Incident Management

The Department's S&T Transition Program is continuously evolving through the incorporation of best practices from industry and other federal partners. As priorities change, the process is flexible enough to accommodate necessary changes while maintaining the stability of prior-year decisions.