1. Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative
Fred Roberts
Chair, RUHSRI
Director, DIMACS Center
anthrax
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2. Concerns about security:
Physical safety
Transportation
Food and water supply
The fundamental technologies underlying our economic system (communications, computing)
The very working of our modern society
RUHSRI is aimed at coordinating homeland security research at Rutgers.
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3. Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development
Existing efforts at Rutgers in homeland security research are widespread and impressive.
Many could lead quickly to practical R&D programs and new business development.
They could easily form the basis for a dozen major initiatives.
We present a selection of relevant current research.
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4. SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION
Biosurveillance/chemosurveillance
Adverse event/bioterrorist attack detection
Pathogen detection (Terahertz (THz) wave imaging; detecting airborne anthrax particles)
Weapons detection/identification (dirty bombs, plastic explosives)
Analysis of massive, high speed data for anomaly/outlier detection
Intelligent question answering (interface between the intelligence analyst and data)
Computational/mathematical models in epidemiology
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5. SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION-II
Biometrics
Face, gait, voice, iris recognition
Non-verbal behavior detection (lying or telling the truth?)
Text Surveillance
Monitoring message streams for “new events”
Statistical methods in textual analysis
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6. SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION - III
Sensors
Bioterrorism sensor location
Sensor networks to monitor bio/chem hazards
Design of sensors (high sensitivity ZnO sensors; UV detection devices for bio-detection; nanoscale semiconductor sensors)
BASIS bioterrorism sensor
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7. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SECURITY
Communication Security
Network security, mobile and wireless security
Secure communication through tunable adaptive filters
Secure communication through low bit-rate coding
Sharing data
Information privacy
Identity theft
Secure e-commerce
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8. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SECURITY - II
Transportation and Border Security
Transportation infrastructure security (airports, marine terminals, transit hubs)
Pattern recognition for machine-assisted baggage searches
Statistical analysis of flight/aircraft inspections
Port-of-entry inspection algorithms
Border security (decision support software)
Vessel tracking for homeland defense
Pipeline security
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9. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SECURITY - III
Food and Water Supply Security
Regional drinking water security consortium
Food and water biosecurity initiative
Remediating contaminated water
Bioterrorism training (environment & public health)
Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory for highly secure evalution of pathogens (proposed)
Agroterrorism
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10. RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK
Exposure/Toxicology
Modeling dose received
Rapid risk and exposure characterization
Toxicology of WMD’s
Evacuation
Simulating evacuation of complex transportation facilities
Plume modeling to determine areas of risk
Handling patients before ER admission.
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11. RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK - II
Cleanup
Monitoring and control for chem/bio attack emergency response
Air and water purification systems
Decontamination of areas affected by chem/bio weapons
Emergency scene management
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12. RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK - III
Emergency Communications
Infostations for rapid wireless communication for first responders
Rapid networking at emergency locations
Risk communication methods
Rapid “telecollaboration”
Legal Responses to Terrorism
Analysis of laws to control or suppress terrorism
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13. Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development
STRENGTHS AT RUTGERS
Many of the projects described are already receiving external funding.
There is already substantial partnership with NJ industry (small and large).
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14. External Funding/Partners
Biosurveillance/chemosurveillance
$4M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, ONR, ARDA, Sloan Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Partners: AT&T, AT&T Wireless, Avaya, Lucent, Merck, Telcordia, Princeton Scientific Instruments, state and local health departments, CDC, Los Alamos
Biometrics
$4.6M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, NSA, ONR, DHS, DARPA, Picatinny Arsenal
Partners: Avaya, Honeywell, Princeton Plasma Physics, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
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15. External Funding/Partners
Text Surveillance
$1.3M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, ICMIC (Intelligence Community)
Partners: AT&T, Avaya, Telcordia, Ornarose Inc. (startup)
Sensors
$3.8M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, AFOSR
Partners: Agere, Sarnoff, J&J, Lucent, ExxonMobil, Princeton Optronics, EMCORE, Semandex, NJ Nanotechnology Consortium
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16. External Funding/Partners
Communication Security
$4M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, US Dept.of Justice, DARPA
Partners: AT&T, Avaya, HP Labs (Princeton), Lucent, Telcordia, Sarnoff
Transportation and Border Security
$3.6M external funding
Funding Sources: NSF, FAA, ONR, DoD Office of Counterdrug Technology
Partners: Federal Highway Administration, Port Authority of NY/NJ, NJ Transit, US Coast Guard, US Customs, SAP Corp. (Morristown)
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17. External Funding/Partners
Food and Water Supply Security
$3M external funding
Funding Sources: EPA, USDA, water utilities
Partners: North Jersey water utilities, NJ DEP, The Nature Conservancy
Evacuation
$250K external funding
Funding Sources: US DOT, ONR, EPA
Partners: Federal Highway Administration, Port Authority of NY/NJ, NJ Transit
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18. External Funding/Partners
Cleanup
$2.2M external funding
Funding Sources: ARO, EPA, ONR
Emergency Communications
$40K external funding
Funding Source: NSF
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19. Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development
Current external funding for Homeland Security Research at Rutgers (without a coordinated effort of the type the bond issue could provide) is $31M
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20. Partial List of Partners at Rutgers
Departments.: Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, ECE, Civil and Envir. Engineering
Centers: CAIP (Advanced Information Processing), DIMACS (Discrete Math & CS), EOHSI (Environmental & Occupational Health and Safety), WINLAB (Wireless Networking), Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies, Global Change and Governance, CIMIC (Information Management, Integration and Connectivity)
Schools: Engineering, SCILS (Information and Library Sciences), Cook College and NJ Agricultural Experimental Station, Business School, Law School, Criminal Justice
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21. JOBS, GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Many NJ industries will benefit from work in homeland security:
chemicals, pharmaceuticals, telecom, software development, advanced materials, health care, ...
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22. JOBS, GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Putting telecom researchers in NJ back to work:
Massive data set methods in use by the telecommunications industry will put many telecom researchers to work on homeland security (already starting).
Similarly for network security methods.
Business Week forecasts a world market for over a trillion sensors by 2010.
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23. JOBS, GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Vulnerability of our computer systems creates many jobs for the software industry.
Expect a great demand for new chemical products to come out of homeland security research
Expect a great demand for new drugs to come out of public health biodefense and bioterrorist attack response.
US Coast Guard estimates cost of Port of Entry Security in Port of NY/NJ will rise to over $7.3B in next 10 years.
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24. Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative
RUHSRI will put NJ to work.
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