“The PPT and DPT projects focus on two areas that are central to a potential National Secure Data Service: innovation and privacy protection. Both projects focus on using state of the art technologies and methodologies to enhance sharing and linking of data while ensuring that confidentiality of respondents is maintained and data is protected,” says Dr. Heather Madray, Program Director for Data Access, Confidentiality, and Quality Assessment from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the National Science Foundation.