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-* [Silicon Valley Innovation Program](https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/svip)
-  > The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen national security with the goal of reshaping how government, entrepreneurs, and industry work together to find cutting-edge solutions. Based in California’s Silicon Valley, the program reaches out to innovation communities across the nation and around the world to harness the commercial R&D ecosystem for technologies with government applications and to co-invest in and accelerate technology transition-to-market.
 * [Small Business Innovation Research Program](https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/sbir)
 * [Homeland Security Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Portal](https://sbir2.st.dhs.gov/portal/SBIR/)
   > The DHS S&T SBIR Program was initiated in 2004 with the goal of increasing the participation of innovative and creative U.S. small businesses in federal research and development programs and challenging industry to bring innovative homeland security solutions to reality.
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   > Similar to the R&D programs of the S&T Directorate, the SBIR topics generally address the needs of the seven DHS Operational Units, i.e., U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Secret Service, as well as First Responders.
 
+## Silicon Valley Innovation Program
+
+* [Silicon Valley Innovation Program](https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/svip)
+  > The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen national security with the goal of reshaping how government, entrepreneurs, and industry work together to find cutting-edge solutions.
+
+### Current Portfolio Companies
+
+There are more DHS portfolio companies, but these are the relevant sections:
+
+#### Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies-Release 1
+
+> - [Danube Tech](https://danubetech.com) (Vienna, Austria) will work on a Universal Issuer and Verifier project to integrate interoperability support for multiple credential data formats, blockchains, and standardized and open application programming interfaces into their existing decentralized identifier (DID) registrar. (Initial award September 2019) – Currently in Phase 2
+> - [Digital Bazaar](https://digitalbazaar.com) (Blacksburg, Virginia) proposes to build out its digital credentialing and blockchain application solution to create a viable credentialing product for large organizations with the long-term goal of bringing its customized solution to market. (Initial award November 2019) – Currently in Phase 2
+> - [Mavennet Systems](https://mavennet.com) (Toronto, Canada) will apply the company’s expertise, gleaned from building a platform enabling real-time auditability of the natural gas trading markets in Canada to address CBP needs for cross-border oil import tracking. Mavennet’s solution will build a generic end-to-end platform that can be used for any type of commodity that includes automation and integrating application program interface, physical measurement and legacy system capabilities. (Initial award November 2019) – Currently in Phase 2
+> - [SecureKey Technologies](https://securekey.com) (Toronto, Canada) will adapt the concepts and code associated with its Verified.Me commercial strength identity network solution that offers availability, disaster recovery, fraud prevention, monitoring and other essential operational controls to support Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services needs around the issuance and validation of identity documents for travel and employment authorization. (Initial award November 2019) – Currently in Phase 2
+> - [Transmute Industries](https://www.transmute.industries) (Austin, Texas) will adapt Transmute ID, its core technology product that leverages centralized and decentralized identity infrastructures to secure individual agency identities and verifiable credentials to ensure that CBP has visibility into the provenance, traceability and regulatory compliance of raw material imports. (Initial award November 2019) – Currently in Phase 2
+
+#### Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies-Release 2
+
+> - [MATTR](https://mattr.global) (Auckland New Zealand): a woman-owned start-up is assisting USCIS to develop a capability to digitally issue and validate essential work and task licenses. (Initial Award September 2020) – Currently in Phase 1
+> - [Mavennet](https://mavennet.com) (Toronto, Canada): will be supporting CBP by improving the traceability of natural gas. Mavennet proposes to enhance their Neoflow platform to digitally trace natural gas supply chains between Canada and the US. (Initial Award September 2020) – Currently in Phase 1
+> - [Mesur IO](https://mesur.io) (Chapel Hill, North Carolina):  will be developing a capability to enhance CBP’s visibility of food supply chains. The project aims to improve food safety through the international supply chain by enhancing visibility from farm to point of purchase. (Initial Award September 2020) – Currently in Phase 1
+> - [SecureKey](https://securekey.com) (Toronto, Canada): will be developing an alternative identifier to the Social Security Number (SSN) to support PRIV’s SSN Collection and Use Reduction initiative. The project’s goal will be to implement a globally unique, meaningless, and verifiable identifier that will not divulge personally identifiable information or allow for cross tracking. (Initial Award September 2020) – Currently in Phase 1
+> - [Spherity](https://spherity.com) (Dortmund, Germany): will be developing a capability to enhance CBP’s supply chain traceability of direct-to-consumer e-commerce shipments.Spherity will adapt their core digital-twin binding technology to provide traceability of packages from internet purchase to consumer. (Initial Award September 2020) – Currently in Phase 1
 
 ## 2016 - 2018
 
-### Science and Technology Directorate Small Business Innovation Research
+### Science and Technology Directorate 
+
+#### Small Business Innovation Research
 
 * [U.S. Department of Homeland Security funds four blockchain companies developing new cyber security technology](https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/u-s-department-of-homeland-security-funds-four-blockchain-companies-developing-new-cyber-security-technology) - 2016 (**Digital Bazaar Inc.**, **Respect Network Corporation**, **Narf Industries LLC**, **Celerity Government Solutions, LLC**)
   > The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, recently [unveiled](https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2016/08/12/news-release-dhs-st-awards-13-million-small-businesses-cyber) a list of 13 small businesses working towards “the development of new cyber security technology.” The companies are part of the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research program. Each was awarded approximately $100,000 in funding, for a total of $1.3 million, and four are using blockchains in their product.