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Homeland Security

DHS Awards $42 Million To Six University Centers Of Excellence

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology branch has awarded task orders worth $42 million over the next five years to six university-led Centers of Excellence (COEs) that help the department’s components and agencies with homeland security-related research, development, analysis and services.The new award allows for DHS components to award task orders to the COE’s, which each have different focus areas.The awardees and the potential value of their task orders are: the Univ. of Maryland-led Study of Terrorism…

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