Academics to Help Advanced Homeland Security Innovations

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced a 40 Million US Dollar funding opportunity for an institution to lead a new DHS Center of Excellence (COE) for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis. DHS S&T is additionally searching for potential partners to work with the lead institution in support of the Center’s activities, so an announcing of the Israel Homeland Security Report.

These two related funding opportunities, published on the government grants website, are open to receive proposals from accredited U.S. colleges and universities. DHS intends to fund this new COE for 10 years for a total of approximately $40 million through a cooperative agreement.
This new COE will conduct end user-focused research to enhance the application of analytic tools that support real-time decision making and address homeland security-related threats and hazards. This COE will also provide education and professional development to improve data management and analysis, facilitate operations research and systems analysis, identify the economic impact of security threats and hazards, and critically assess future risks posed to the DHS mission set.

Multi-Disciplinary Research Teams
According to Newswire, the overarching goal of the Center will be to develop the next generation of mathematical, computational and statistical theories (including algorithms, methods, and tools) to advance quantitative analysis capabilities of the homeland security enterprise.
DHS is soliciting proposals from multi-disciplinary research teams that have research experience and concentration in quantitative analysis, operations research and systems analysis, homeland security risk science and economics. The research teams will work closely with DHS and other subject matter experts to develop successful innovations to confront the future challenges DHS faces. The teams will need to cover a variety of academic disciplines including engineering, science and mathematics.