The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium is pleased to welcome Captain (ret) Amir Tavakoli-Rizi to its Board of Advisors. Captain Tavakoli will support national security, language, and secure research initiatives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He currently serves as a Senior Director at LG-TEK in Elkridge,...
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska will serve as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s vice chancellor for research. Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin named Brzezinska, a longtime Ohio State University engineering professor and GPS researcher, to the post today. She begins Sept. 1....
At a ceremony earlier this month in Bascom Hall, research leadership from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Sandia National Laboratories, the largest of the Department of Energy National Laboratories, celebrated the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two institutions for a strategic...
The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wisconsin Security Research Consortium hosted research leaders from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on March 12, 2024. NRO develops, acquires, launches, and operates space-based assets and ground systems. NRO systems address the nation's toughest intelligence challenges, providing information and perspectives...
The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium is pleased to welcome Maj Gen (ret) Tim Zadalis to its Board of Advisors. General Zadalis will support national security initiatives and U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force partnerships at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
UW-Madison contributes to advances in intelligence, security, and national defense through research, education, and technology commercialization. Opportunities are available for faculty, staff and students in areas as diverse as biomedicine, computer science, information technology, social sciences, languages/cultures, engineering, and more. Join a diverse group of campus...
Steve Ackerman will serve as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s next vice chancellor for research and graduate education. He was named today by Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “I am extremely happy,” Ackerman says. “Serving as the vice chancellor for research and graduate education is a great opportunity...
The DCSA Counterintelligence annual report, "Targeting U.S. Technologies: A Report of Foreign Targeting of Cleared Industry," is now available. This product details and enumerates cleared industry's reporting of suspicious contact reports that represent potential foreign intelligence entities attempts to illicitly acquire U.S. technologies resident in...
The Defense Department wants to put more than $106 billion into research and development efforts, according to its 2021 budget request. "Last year's budget was the largest [research, development test and evaluation] request in 70 years. And this year's research request is even larger," Deputy...
America's world class university system has become a soft target in the global espionage war with China, intelligence officials say — and they are pressing universities to do something about it. Read more. ...