After overseeing Singapore's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the fledgling Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), created in 2019, can at last focus on its original purpose: the development of science and technology capabilities for the ministry of home affairs to which it is attached. Its director, Tsan Chan, is keen to create partnerships for the agency.

HTX, an abbreviation of its name as the ministry's tenth "home team" or department, is responsible for designing tools used by the