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        <description><![CDATA[ Two projects earned $4 million from the federal government to advance ecosystem-based wildlife management, helping military installations protect endangered species more efficiently. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Liselle Joseph has been awarded a Young Investigators Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study fluid-ablation interactions in hypersonic flight.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From predicting pandemics and advancing drone defense to developing new treatments for traumatic brain injuries, new research awards secured by faculty in fiscal year 2025 will drive a wide range of discoveries with a shared goal of improving lives in communities near and far. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ How can you stay safe while using fireworks during your Fourth of July celebration? Which fireworks are the most dangerous? How do fireworks cause eye injuries? Stefan Duma, University Distinguished Professor, the Harry C. Wyatt Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech, demonstrates which fireworks are most likely to cause eye injuries. He explains Virginia’s firework laws and shares best practices for handling them safely. Duma, as founder of the Helmet Lab, studies all kinds of injuries. His research on eye and head injuries began with support from the Department of Defense to help protect military personnel from shrapnel. It has since expanded to include consumer products such as Nerf toys and fireworks. Curious about the Helmet Lab? Learn more below: https://bold.beam.vt.edu/BOLDLabs/HelmetLab.html ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jones explained the various regulations surrounding drone operations, the challenges of identifying drones in the sky, and the importance of safety measures. He also shared his insights into counter UAS strategies, including detection and mitigation techniques, and its implications for national security, as well as how Virginia Tech is helping advance both. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ For more than 15 years, Virginia Tech has prepared students to tackle our nation’s most complex security challenges. It all started with a vision from engineering alumnus and former U.S. intelligence professional Ted Hume ’74. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech was responsible for almost half of the growth in federally sponsored research expenditures in Virginia’s institutions of higher education in fiscal year 2023, according to the National Science Foundation’s latest Higher Education Research and Development survey. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, a collaboration between Virginia Tech and the United States Naval Academy aims to ensure the Navy can make the best use of its resources to track enemy submarines in vast ocean areas while staying ahead of emerging threats.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ First announced in June, the university was among five of more than 12,000 eligible organizations in the United States to receive the 2023 Jack Donnelly Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s Lingla Liu&#39;s research focuses on NextG wireless, networking, and computing systems that may have potential impacts for the future of NextG standards across the globe. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A research team led by Anamaria Bukvic in the Department of Geography received a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to evaluate how efforts to adapt to climate change affects population mobility in coastal areas in the Indo-Pacific. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In June, Virginia Tech was among five out of more than 10,000 eligible organizations in the United States to receive the 2023 Jack Donnelly Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Vassilios Kovanis, a quantum systems research professor within the Virginia Tech National Security Institute, is on one of the multi-university teams awarded. The project comes after the Institute has made recent investments in quantum research as part of Virginia Tech’s initiative to advance the quantum frontier. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech reported a record $419 million in extramural research expenditures for fiscal year 2023, surpassing the university’s strategic plan goal of $410 million two years earlier than planned.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $3.2 million contract to a consortium of four universities — Virginia Tech, Tulane, University of Central Florida, and California Polytechnic State University — to evaluate dangers from sinking land and rising seas for the more than 1,800 military installations across the globe. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Department of Defense has awarded the university $3 million to research new additive manufacturing processes to develop safer and more efficient energetic materials. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Based on fiscal year 2023 data estimates, federal, state, local, and private research awards grew a combined 17 percent, while research expenditures rose to more than $650 million — a 13 percent increase over last year&#39;s totals. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is one of four universities selected by the Department of Defense to participate in the newly created interdisciplinary scholarship program called the Defense Civilian Training Corps. The program will provide students with defense-related coursework, internship placement, and job placement within the Department of Defense upon graduation. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Defense’s career transition program allows separating service members to explore career opportunities through internships and apprenticeships. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new interdisciplinary program is open to any Virginia Tech student with an interest in national defense careers related to acquisition, digital technologies, critical technologies, science, engineering, and finance — particularly cadets in the Citizen-Leader Track of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech researcher Brandon Jutras envisions a the possibility of a rapid, at-home test for Lyme disease with support of a $1.3 million award from the Department of Defense. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through the memorandum, Virginia Tech researchers will engage with Institute for Defense Analyses staff to shape impactful research programs in areas including data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech has received a U.S. Department of Defense grant that will fund up to $800,000 for the purchase of a computerized additive friction stir deposition machine that will be housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and be made available to interested researchers from across the university — and beyond. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Researchers led by Professor Kylene Kehn-Hall at Virginia Tech’s Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine will study mouse models of how the Eastern equine encephalitis virus changes the brain.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The new high-speed camera system is part of a second phase in building optical flow measurement capabilities at the Stability Wind Tunnel, Advanced Propulsion and Power Laboratory, and Cavitation, Propulsion and Multiphase Flow Laboratory.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech receives $2.8 million grant from the Department of Defense; Stephanie Travis named director of Senior Military College Cyber Institute </title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The grant will be allocated toward supporting scholarships for students interested in careers focused on cybersecurity and critical foreign languages, and supporting experiential learning opportunities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The goal of the program is to support the recruitment of new cyber talent and the retention of current highly skilled professionals within the DoD cyber workforce. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Drawing on the experience of its faculty members and experts, the institute will produce research and impact policy related to legal and practical challenges facing national intelligence, defense, law enforcement, homeland security, and cybersecurity communities. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The center will bring together higher education expertise to increase efficiency in the U.S. Defense Acquisition System to accompany the expansion of defense technology. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech has been awarded approximately $1.5 million to fuel workforce development in cybersecurity and related professional roles as one of six Department of Defense’s senior military colleges participating in the U.S. Cyber Command Cyber Leadership Development Program. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech is one of only two higher education institutions nationally to be honored out of the approximately 12,500 cleared facilities in the National Industrial Security Program for 2020.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Reporting directly to Luiz DaSilva, John Delaney will lead the operational team that supports more than 300 researchers across dozens of CCI-affiliated institutions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Ghassemi, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a three-year grant of $450,000 to study the fundamental roots of insulation breakdown caused by low pressure and harsh environments, an issue at the heart of work being done by the DOD and NASA. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The awards are the result of a merit competition for funding conducted by the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The goal is to establish programs to better position the current and next-generation manufacturing workforce to produce military systems and components that assure technological superiority of the department, according to the Department of Defense’s website. ]]></description>
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