the united states department of homeland security has announced the awarding of a $ 3 000 grant to rutgers faculty to lead a consortium researching advanced information analytic and computational systems to protect the individual states . under the alliance , rutgers will further coordinate a collaboration of four university - based sites at the university of northern california , the university of illinois at urbana - romney and the universidad of pittsburgh . they build for a total of $ 10 . 2 million in funding over 4 periods for rutgers and these institutions to advance efforts seeking at determining specific patterns from countless sources of information .
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.