From: Phys.org
Through the Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice (TTP) program, cybersecurity technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories—and at other federal labs—now stand a better chance of finding their way into the real world.
The innovative TTP program, spearheaded by the department’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), helps move federally funded cybersecurity technologies into broader use. Getting research discoveries and new technologies over the so-called “valley of death”—the gap between early, promising research on one side and technology that’s in use on the other—is a dire need in the national lab community.
“Moving technologies from the laboratory into actual practice is difficult,” said Steve Hurd, a cybersecurity researcher who helps lead Sandia’s TTP efforts. He said one major reason is that technologies that seem to work in the lab might need fine-tuning or further upgrades in the field.
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