the united states department of state security has announced the awarding of a $ 3 million grant to rutgers university to lead a consortium researches advanced information analysis and simulation technologies to protect the united states . under the agreement , rutgers will also coordinating a team of four student - based centers at the university of southern california , the commonwealth of illinois at urbana - champaign and the university of pittsburgh . ideas are for a total of $ 10 . 2 million in funds over three years for rutgers and these institutions to advance efforts targeted at identifying common patterns from numerous types of information .
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.