DOD to award $4.5 million in computer research grants

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By Matt McLaughlin
GCN Staff
December 20, 2000

The Defense Department will award $4.5 million in fiscal 2001 to
universities for work in science and engineering fields that are
critical to the protection of the nations information infrastructure.

The awards will be presented through the Critical Infrastructure
Protection and Information Assurance Fellows program. They will
provide funding for up to two years for 19 fellows from 12
universities around the nation.

Delores Etter, deputy undersecretary of Defense for science and
technology, said awards will be presented to:

* University of California at Riverside for multimodal human
  identification for computer security,

* Louisiana State University for cyberforensics,

* Dartmouth College for critical infrastructure protection,

* Harvard University for modeling and analysis of information and
 attack in computer networks,

* University of South Carolina for its Advanced Solutions Group,

* Carnegie Mellon University for survivable information systems,

* University of California at San Diego for theoretical approaches to
  information assurance and intrusion response,

* Cornell University for its Information Assurance Institute,

* State University of New York for specification-based techniques for
  information assurance,

* George Mason University for intrusion detection using data mining
  techniques,

*  Florida Institute of Technology for information assurance research,
   and...

* University of Colorado for support of tolerating intrusions through
  secure systems.

The program is designed to increase the number of postdoctoral and
faculty scientists conducting research in information assurance and
infrastructure protection. CIPIAF links academic researchers with
Defense-funded scientists who are already established in these areas.

To find more information on the DOD science and technology partnership
with universities, visit www.dtic.mil/ddre/univ.html.

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