the united states administration of homeland security has announced the awarding of a $ 3 million grant to rutgers university to lead a consortium researching advanced information analyze and computational technologies to protect the usa states . under the pact , rutgers will immediately coordinate a team of seven university - based centre at the universities of southern california , the university of illinois at richmond - champaign and the university of pittsburgh . plans call for a totaling of $ 10 . 2 dollars in funding over three years for newark and these universities to advance efforts aimed at identifying common sequences from numerous sources of information .
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.