Dana Nau (pictured left), a professor with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CMPS), and V.S. Subrahmanian (right), an ISR-affiliated professor with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, were awarded a $3.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). The grant is for research on techniques for behavior modeling of adversaries.

Aerospace engineering professors Alison Flatau (pictured) and Norman Wereley, along with materials science engineering faculty Manfred Wuttig and Ichiro Takeuchi, were also awarded a $3 million MURI grant. The award is for research on magnetic and mechanical energy in alloys called magnetostrictive materials. Flatau serves as co-principal investigator along with faculty from six other universities: Virginia Tech, Iowa State, University of Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers.

An IBM research team that includes electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Professor Virgil Gligor (pictured), University of Maryland principal investigator, and Professor James Hendler (ISR, ECE and CMPS), co-principal investigator, won the International Technology Alliance (ITA) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence. The group will receive $3.5 million over approximately 10 years. The purpose of ITA is to tackle some of the complex information network issues that will be crucial to future coalition military operations, and to take full advantage of the joint development of emerging technologies.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense has awarded a $2.1 million grant to the University of Maryland interdisciplinary team that includes the Center for Advanced Life-Cycle Engineering (CALCE), Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise and other partners at the Clark School. The team is developing a web-based supply network using advanced technologies to acquire and deliver replacement parts for F/A-Navy fighter jets as quickly as possible. The project will demonstrate real-time health assessment to enable fault detection, diagnostics, and remaining life prognostics for cost-effective jet maintenance.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) has been awarded $1.5 million for a two-year, open-ended agreement to conduct planning and research for the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration.

CEE Senior Research Engineer Lewis E. Link (pictured) and CEE Professor Gregory B. Baecher have been awarded $1.3 million for a one-year, multi-task study to support the federal government's Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce. The taskforce is investigating the levees and floodwalls that overtopped or breached during Hurricane Katrina to improve future New Orleans protection project designs.