Theme projects create focal points for faculty from diverse academic areas to connect and share related research. Our theme projects are selected as reflections of issues relevant to National Security with both technical and social dimensions. Around these themes, we organize research symposia, host visiting speakers and collaborators, and facilitate a brown bag lunch series, all of which serve as hubs for our cross discipline studies.

Hastily Formed Networks (05-06)

Our current theme project addresses the issues arising in emergency response to crises such as the 9/11 attacks and natural disasters such as the 2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. These demand the combined actions of people in a network of multiple organizations with no common authority, who must cooperate and collaborate. For more information.

The World Wide Consortium for the Grid (04-05)

As a result of the Battlespace Communication Architecture project, a major Institute initative began in FY 05. For further details.

Battlespace Communication Architecture (03-04)

This project explored reference models for network centric operations. Twenty-five faculty and their students participated in studies at organization, systems and technology levels. In cooperation with SPAWAR (San Diego) we studied reference models at the technology, systems and operations levels. A major result of these studies was formation of W2COG to create ongoing process to reach consensus on architecture issues.