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May 2006 NVAC Advisor Featured in Innovation Journal

Cover of Innovation Magazine NVAC advisory board member Dr. John Dill, P.Eng., is featured in the May/June 2006 issue of Innovation, the Journal of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

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March 6, 2006 Objectivity Becomes Gold Member Of The National Visualization And Analytics Center SUNNYVALE, Calif. — To support growing demand within the security and intelligence community for its real-time data management solutions for complex inter-related data, Objectivity, Inc. today announces its Gold Membership to the National Visualization and Analytics Center™ (NVAC). NVAC is lead by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Read Entire Press Release
January 17, 2006 PNNL awards contracts to four universities for homeland security work RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has awarded contracts to four university teams to support the Department of Homeland Security's mission with the National Visualization and Analytics Center (http://nvac.pnl.gov/). These contracts will establish regional visualization centers and will bring academic expertise to the nation's efforts to discover information that may warn officials of a terrorist attack before it can be carried out. Read Entire Press Release
January 17, 2006 University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Georgia Institute of Technology selected for DHS national visualization team CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A team comprised of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Georgia Institute of Technology has been named a Regional Visualization and Analytics Center by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. UNC Charlotte and Georgia Tech will develop techniques and tools to assist homeland security analysts, and then combine the tools in an artificial analytic reasoning system. The system will be able to analyze enormous multimedia databases, such as the data generated by the web in the forms of text, imagery, video and webcast. Read Entire Press Release
January 17, 2006 Purdue and Indiana University’s School of Medicine selected for DHS national visualization team WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A team comprised of Purdue University and Indiana University’s School of Medicine has been named a Regional Visualization and Analytics Center by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. The team’s center, or PURVAC, will perform research that will allow personnel at all levels of homeland security to quickly and effectively extract, visually analyze and synthesize information so that they can make quick and accurate decisions. The PURVAC team will focus on three homeland security areas: intelligence analysis; emergency planning and response; and healthcare monitoring and management. Read Entire Press Release
January 17, 2006 Penn State selected for DHS National Visualization Team University Park, Pa. – Pennsylvania State University has been named a Regional Visualization and Analytics Center by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. Penn State’s RVAC will address three core challenges related to visual representation and analysis of diverse information. Researchers will develop methods for deriving and exploiting information, such as place and time, from a variety of data forms; they will link this information with stored knowledge and analytical reasoning practices to yield usable intelligence; and will provide cognitive readiness and collaboration support enabling individuals and teams to assess situations, interpret evidence, make decisions and direct or execute actions. Read Entire Press Release
February 8, 2005 Stanford lands lucrative Homeland Security deal SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER – Stanford University will be the first Regional Visualization Analytics Center, having won a competitive national contract. With enough money to fund three professors and their graduate students across multiple disciplines, the group will try to find easy ways to sort through vast amounts of information. Read Entire Article
February 7, 2005 Stanford selected as first regional center for DHS’ national visual analytics work RICHLAND, Wash – Stanford University has been named the first Regional Visualization and Analytics Center to perform basic science and technology research to assist the Department of Homeland Security in identifying and thwarting terrorist threats to the nation. Read Entire Press Release
13 May 2004 Anti-terror project presents high-tech way to mine data SEATTLE POST–INTELLIGENCER – A research project aimed at preventing terrorism by exploiting a relative new, powerful technique called “visual information analysis” will be established at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland with a grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Read Entire Article
13 May 2004 Department of Homeland Security Launches National Center Focusing on Data Visualization to Enhance Homeland Security WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today announced the creation of the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC). The new center, to be led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, will provide scientific guidance and coordination for the research and development of new tools and methods that Homeland Security has identified as required for managing, visually representing, and analyzing enormous amounts of diverse data and information. Read Entire Article
13 May 2004 DHS creates data visualization center WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY – The Homeland Security Department created a National Visualization and Analytics Center that will research and develop new tools and methods that the department will use to manage, visually represent, and analyze enormous amounts of information, department officials announced today. Read Entire Article
14 May 2004 Homeland Security picks PNNL for anti-terrorism work TRI-CITY HERALD – The Department of Homeland Security has selected the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland to lead a new national center for analyzing information three-dimensionally. Read Entire Article