Centers to study U.S. security: RTP, UNC-CH sites hailed as putting area at front of homeland security efforts
It is a collaboration of RTI International, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and the N.C. Military Foundation.
RTI - $7.5M contract studying how social science and policy-making can fight terrorism and improve homeland defense in other ways.
Duke - The new “Solutions” institute will be housed at Duke University, WRAL News was told.
UNC-CH - The Department of Homeland Security grant for that center, which will study natural disasters in coastal areas, is worth at least $2.5 million a year for six years.
"If you look around the country, there are many industrial parks, there are many universities and several research parks, but it's been my experience that no state puts it together as well as North Carolina can," he said. "We wanted the best of the best in these two cases, and we've picked very well. And these aren't short-term commitments."
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