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Network Sciences

Objective

Bring together government, industry and academic institutions to perform foundational, cross-cutting research for a fundamental understanding of interactions, interdependencies, and common underlying science among social/cognitive, information, and communications networks. Prediction and control of the composite behavior of these complex interacting networks will ultimately enhance effectiveness in network-enabled warfare and counterinsurgency.

Overview Briefing
http://www.ns-cta.org/

Contact Information

Collaborative Alliance Manager:
Dr. John Pellegrino
john.m.pellegrino.civ@mail.mil
(301) 394-2100

Consortium Program Director:
Dr. Will Leland
wel@bbn.com

Research Area Technical Objectives

• Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) - Research how global network properties or behaviors can be composed from local properties; manage the reporting, financial, and administrative matters of Consortium; manage the NS CTA Facility with a distributed multi-user experimentation environment that can be accessed by all members; transition of research results from the alliance.
• Information Networks Academic Research Center (INARC) - Foundation, methodologies, algorithms, and implementations for effective, scalable, hierarchical, dynamic and resilient information networks.
• Social/Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SNARC) - Theory, measures, and understanding of social and cognitive networks as applicable to both individual and organizational decision making in the context of networked information systems and fused, networked knowledge.
• Communications Networks Academic Research Center (CNARC) - Foundational techniques to model, analyze, predict, and control the behavior of secure tactical communication networks as an enabler for information and command-and-control (C2) networks.

Principal Members

• BBN Technologies (IRC)
• Penn State (CNARC)
• University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (INARC)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (SNARC)

General Members

• University of California (UC)- Riverside (HBCU-MI)
• City University of New York (HBCU-MI)
• University of Delaware
• University of Southern California
• UC- Santa Barbara
• UC- Davis
• UC-Santa Cruz
• Northeastern University
• IBM
• ArtisTech