National Security Technology Accelerator

National Security Technology Accelerator (d/b/a Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems or S2MARTS (pronounced 'smarts') is a North Carolina nonprofit corporation and works to strengthen national security through identification, development, deployment and supply of advanced technology to the Warfighter. S2MARTS supports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in refining current technology deficiencies and needs and subsequently identifying and testing potential technology solutions from companies, universities, laboratories, incubators and elsewhere. S2MARTS refines strategies and management planning activities, and implements integrated, complementary solutions that enable broader DoD access to commercial state-of-the-art EMS technologies, advanced microelectronics, radiationhardened (RADHARD) and strategic missions hardware. For the government, the organization works with the national security agencies to identify and and define their current technology.