Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) Group to Receive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award

The Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award has been awarded to members of the team of Penn State, Harvard, Duke, Ohio State, and University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Shashi Phoha, Director of Information Science Division at the Applied Research Laboratory is the Principal Investigator of this project, with Dr. Asok Ray, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering taking the lead on the major research thrust area. The research project will be dedicated to both theoretical and experimental aspects of fundamental research in Sensor Networks for enhancement of Information Fusion.

A  2007 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant has been awrded to Dr. Asok Ray for expansion of the Networked Robotics and Signal Intelligence Laboratory, where a significant part of the research in this new MURI will be conducted.

The MURI award grant #27: Urban Sensor Network Structure for Data Fusion is funded by the Army Research Office (ARO).  

The awards were announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which will issue 36 awards to academic institutions for multi-disciplinary basic research totaling $19.4 million for 2007 and $207 million over the next five years.  There were 129 proposals received by the DoD after the initial selection from a much larger number of white papers.

For more information about the MURI awards please visit the U.S. Department of Defense website at http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=10585

For more information about the DURIP awards, please visit the U.S. Department of Defense website at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2007/d20070305durip.pdf.

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