NSA Funds 'Lablets' for Security Research

Campus Technology: The National Security Agency (NSA) is funding the creation of four small laboratories on just as many campuses as part of a new initiative to support the development of programs for security research. Recently, the NSA invited nearly 300 institutions to go after funding to develop "lablets," little labs with the express purpose of conducting basic research, building a community and talking up the need for a "science for security" (SoS). Four universities — Carnegie Mellon, North Carolina State, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and U Maryland — jumped at the opportunity. Each of the first three schools will receive $2.5 million; U Maryland will receive $4.5 million over three years.

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