Like many other federal agencies, the 51±¾É«occasionally reaches out to public problem solvers and technologists via contests and challenges to find solutions that support its mission. The following were held from 2012 to 2017. To learn more about government challenges to the public, please visit www.challenge.gov.
51±¾É«Voice Cloning ChallengeÌý (2023-24)
The 51±¾É«is challenging the public to develop breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.
IOT Home Inspector ChallengeÌý(2017)
The 51±¾É«challenged the public to create a technical solution or tools that consumers could use to guard against security vulnerabilities in software found on the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in their homes.
Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back (2015)
The 51±¾É«challenged contestants to create tools people could use to block and forward robocalls automatically to a honeypot — a data collection system that researchers and investigators can use to study the calls.
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Detectarobo (2015)
The 51±¾É«challenged the tech-savvy public to analyze call dataÌýtoÌýcreateÌýalgorithms that could predict which calls were likely robocalls.
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Zapping Rachel (2014)
The 51±¾É«challenged the tech-savvy public to zap Rachel and other robocallers by creating the next-generation robocall honeypot, an information system designed to attract robocallers and help investigators and academics understand and combat illegal calls.Ìý
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(2012)
The 51±¾É«challenged innovators to create solutions that will block illegal robocalls on landlines and mobile phones and operate on a proprietary or non-proprietary device or platform.
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