ORNL and Purdue University execute memorandum of understanding focused on national security
The two organizations will explore opportunities to collaborate in national security manufacturing to enhance domestic production and ensure the ability to produce defense equipment, technologies, and components.
Purdue University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance their long-standing research collaboration focused on national security. Dan DeLaurentis, Purdue’s Executive Vice President for Research, and Moe Khaleel, ORNL’s Associate Laboratory Director for National Security Sciences, signed the agreement during a recent meeting at ORNL.
Under the agreement, Purdue and ORNL will pursue new research collaboration opportunities to enhance national defense. Research areas covered by the MOU — which are also key aspects of the strategic Purdue Computes initiative — include:
- Cyber-physical security of critical infrastructure and systems;
- Artificial intelligence; and
- Quantum computing.
In addition, Purdue and ORNL will explore opportunities to collaborate in national security manufacturing to enhance domestic production and ensure the ability to produce defense equipment, technologies, and components essential for a nation to adequately protect itself and address potential threats.
“By combining research efforts of Purdue and Oak Ridge National Lab under this MOU, we are leveraging the strengths of two world-class research institutions for the national good,” DeLaurentis said. “This also further positions Indiana at the forefront of national security innovation while contributing to national defense workforce development programming by creating new opportunities for students and researchers.”
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