july 9, 2003commission on jobs growth and economic development 1 rutgers university homeland...

July 9, 2003 Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development

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Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative


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Fred RobertsChair, RUHSRIDirector, DIMACS [email protected]


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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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External Funding/Partners•Text Surveillance


–Funding Sources: NSF, ICMIC (Intelligence Community)

–Partners: AT&T, Avaya, Telcordia, Ornarose Inc. (startup)

•Sensors


–Funding Sources: NSF, AFOSR

–Partners: Agere, Sarnoff, J&J, Lucent, ExxonMobil, Princeton Optronics, EMCORE, Semandex, NJ Nanotechnology Consortium


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External Funding/Partners•Communication Security


–Funding Sources: NSF, US Dept.of Justice, DARPA

–Partners: AT&T, Avaya, HP Labs (Princeton), Lucent, Telcordia, Sarnoff

•Transportation and Border Security


–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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External Funding/Partners•Food and Water Supply Security


–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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External Funding/Partners•Cleanup


–Funding Sources: ARO, EPA, ONR

•Emergency Communications

–$40K external funding

–Funding Source: NSF


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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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Partial List of Partners at RutgersDepartments.: 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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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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•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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•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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Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative

RUHSRI will put NJ to work.

july 9, 2003commission on jobs growth and economic development 1 rutgers university homeland...

Documents

economic development

jobs growth

epidemiology slide

new business development

economic system communications

textual analysis slide

water biosecurity initiative

high speed data