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Technologically Speaking Podcast

The Official S&T Podcast

Join us for candid conversations about the science of homeland security.

The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) invites listeners to take a deep dive into the science of homeland security and meet the experts on the frontlines of keeping America safe.

Technologically Speaking is a new podcast series that delivers insightful, thought-provoking, and unscripted conversations about timely national security challenges and the scientific solutions S&T is developing to tackle them. We even sprinkle in some behind-the-scenes stories, personal anecdotes, little-known facts, and technology tidbits so you can get to know S&T, and its people, a little better.

These casual conversations are unlike anything S&T has done before, but innovation is in our DNA.

 

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Season 5

Access each episode along with related resources and show notes below.

  • Episode 8: What is that Future World Gonna Look Like?

    Season 5 Episode 8 Podcast What is that Future World Gonna Look Like?

    In the final episode of Technologically Speaking Season 5, S&T Senior Advisor Kristin Wyckoff explores how the Directorate is helping DHS to see over the horizon through foresighting. Better understanding the emerging threats landscape helps S&T direct R&D towards solutions to defeat those threats—and shape the future of homeland security.

  • Episode 7: We Need to Be Ahead of That Threat

    Season 5 Episode 7 podcast We Need to Be Ahead of That Threat

    Air, Land, and Ports of Entry Program Manager Saadat Laiq shares how S&T is leading the creation of new technology solutions to assist Department of Homeland Security component agencies and frontline responders secure our borders and points of entry.

  • Episode 6: You Can Get Any Result Once

    Season 5 Episode 6 Podcast You Can Get Any Result Once

    Host Brittany Greco sits down with S&T Senior Standards Advisor Renee Stevens for a lively discussion about how setting standards for technology development can actually be a matter of life, death, and national security.

     

     

  • Episode 5: Good Chance You’re Going to Save Lives

    Season 5 Episode 5 S&T Podcast

    In honor of National Police week, Program Manager Anthony Caracciolo introduces innovative technologies S&T has developed for—and with—our law enforcement partners. You’ll learn about digitizing building floorplans, detecting presence of life through walls, and contactless vehicle stoppage, and hear how having an older brother who was a cop led to a passion for making all responders safer in the field.

  • Episode 4: Better, Faster, More Effective

    Season 5 Episode 4 card

    S&T’s Luke Watko shares some of the latest innovations coming out of S&T’s First Responder Capability Program and how S&T works for—and with—responders to fill critical technology gaps.

     

  • Episode 3: We Take the Load Off of Them

    Season 5 Episode 3 We Take the Load Off of Them

    We work with our First Responder Resource Group and Big City Fire Working Group to crowdsource technology gaps that S&T can fill. In this episode, Cassy Robinson shares all about this important first responder research and development, as well as the latest from our National Urban Security Technology Laboratory.

  • Episode 2: What We Both Gain from a Closer Relationship

    Season 5 Episode 2 Podcast

    Hear from John Han of our International Cooperative Programs Office about his role as S&T’s Singapore attaché, the importance of international scientific collaboration, and the Directorate’s critical research and development priorities in the Indo-Pacific region.

  • Episode 1: Different Pieces and Systems

    Different Pieces and Systems podcast

    In the first episode of Technologically Speaking Season 5, Director of S&T’s Office for Interoperability and Compatibility Russell Becker delves into challenges and innovations for thousands of 911 and emergency response centers across the nation.

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Meet Your Hosts

Deepak Saini - Podcast bio pic
Deepak Saini is the media chief for the Communications and Outreach Division. Prior to joining S&T, Deepak was an award-winning television news journalist for several TV affiliates across the country. Deepak earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from San Francisco State University.
Brittany Greco Podcast Bio pic
Brittany Greco is a senior communications specialist at S&T. She is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, respectively. This is Brittany’s first foray into podcast hosting following years of insightful conversations that were unfortunately unrecorded. 
Dave DeLizza Podcast Bio Pic
Dave DeLizza has been involved in many aspects of production and post-production for audio and video, ranging from production sound mixing for commercial and narrative work to editing and motion graphics. He is also Adjunct Professor, Sound for Film and Video at Rowan University.

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Last Updated: 06/10/2025
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