the united york department of homeland security has announced the allocation of a $ 3 million prize to rutgers university to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protection the united states . under the agreement , it will instead coordinated a partnership of four college - based centers at the university of south california , the university of texas at urbana - charleston and the universities of pittsburgh . plans called for a total of $ 10 . 2 million in funding over seven years for university and these institutions to coordinate attempts focused at determining common patterns from numerous sources of information .
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.