WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)  announced the selection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the lead institution to establish a new Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIRC) Center of Excellence (COE). The university will be supported by a consortium of U.S. academic and industry institutions, S&T will provide CIRC with a $3.4 million grant for its first operating year.

“We are excited that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will join our family of Centers to solve complex, interdisciplinary challenges that affect our ability to make the nation’s infrastructures more resilient,” said Matthew Clark, Ph.D., director of S&T’s Office of University Programs (OUP), which manages the COE system.

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