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