Rutgers gets homeland security research grant

NEW BRUNSWICK - Rutgers University will conduct research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on analyzing information to help detect national security threats.

Rutgers will partner with Purdue University in developing the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability. Rutgers and Purdue will receive up to $5 million per year over a period of six years.

Rutgers will be the lead institution for research in the data sciences through its Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Purdue will be the lead for research in the visualization sciences.

The new grant will continue work begun at Rutgers under grants awarded in 2006. Rutgers researchers have been working on computing technologies that find patterns and relationships in public data that can quickly identify such things as emerging diseases or possible terrorist activity.