Department of Defense&
Department of Homeland Security
Mission and Goals:
• Attract funding for dual-use technologies that benefit both basic research and national security objectives. • Expand cooperative projects between UH, USCG, DoD, and local small businesses.
• Tend to be shorter term (3-5 year) projects with deliverables. “Transition” is the buzzword.
• Integrate with the UARC.
Personnel vary by project - presently including:
Chemical Weapons Dumps - DeCarlo, Edwards, McMurty, Merrifield, Wilkens, HURL, Environet, ECBC (Army)
Counter Mine Warfare - Merrifield, Pawlak, Wilkens, JHU/APL, NRL
DHS Maritime Domain Awareness Center -Crouch (Eng), Allen (Eng), Edwards, Flament, Iskander (Eng), Nosal, Wilkens, Wright, UW/APL, U. Alaska, U. Puerto Rico
Optical & IR Remote Sensing - (0.9 FTE)Faculty: Shiv Sharma, Paul Lucey, Anupam Misra, Barry
Leinert, John PorterPost-docs: Mike Winter, Karen Stockstill, David BatesEngineers: Tim Williams, Mark Wood, Mike Winter, Jeff BoselGraduate Students: Josh Cahill, Miriam Riner
Extramural funding in effect:
Optical & IR2003-2007: 61 grants and contracts,
$9.86MCounter Mine Warfare
$200,000 - ONR
Chemical Munitions Survey$1.975 million - ARMY
DHS Center (Pending)$3 million/yr for 5 yrs. ~50% to UH
Instrumentation Acquired:REMUS 100 AUV, LBV 150 small ROV, Profiling Current Meter, Short Baseline Navigation System, Sector and Line Scanning Sonars
Support Provided:Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory--
Sharma lead
Spectral Technology Group--Lucey lead
Kilo Nalu through ONR work and (proposed) DHS studies.
HMRG, HURL through CW work.
Optical and IR Remote Sensing
Major Results
Detection of high explosives at ranges of 200m using remote Raman spectroscopy
Detection of buried land mines and IEDs from vehicles and aircraft using ultra-lightweight sensors developed at UH
Infrared Remote Sensing: Major Areas
Phenomenology studies Algorithm development and
data collection for detection of buried land mines, IEDs, camouflage, chemical weapons, drug labs
Sponsors National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency Various large aerospace
contractors US Army Civil sponsors: NASA, EPA
Sensor Development Ultra-lightweight IR
spectrometers IR projectors for sensor
testing Sponsor: US Army
Buried Land Mines
BenzeneBenzene
EthylGPE
Gas Detection
CamouflagedTarget Detection
Recent Cross-desert Traffic
UH Airborne Experiments
Remote Raman Detection of Explosives at 125-m
Field Test during Mojave dust storm
Mine Burial Prediction: Validation studies of an MBP expert system
THEN
NOW
Nov. 1944 - 16,000 100lbMustard Gas Bombs dumped 5 miles south of Pearl Harbor
Hawaii Undersea Military Munitions
Assessment
National Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES)
Research Priorities
Maritime Domain AwarenessSurveillance & TrackingScreening & ScanningData Fusion & Analysis
Marine Transportation System SecurityEnhance Supply Chain TransparencyMaritime & Offshore Critical Infrastructure ProtectionMaritime Recovery & ResilienceCatastrophic Maritime Events in Extreme Environments
Maritime Risk, Policy, and International GovernanceMaritime Risk ManagementMaritime Policy & legal AnalysisMaritime International Governance & Cooperation
Maritime Enforcement, Operations, & CCCMaritime EnforcementOperational AnalysisCommand, Control, & Communications