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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

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Rutgers Univ. has received a $2 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to provide coordination and facilitation towards the development of a network-centric Information Sharing Environment. The focus of the work is on standards and architecture, security and access, associated privacy protection, and best practices. Rutgers is one of the leads for DHS S&T University Center of Excellence visual and data analytics topic area, referred to as the Center for Visualization and Data…

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