Reed & Magaziner to Deliver $795,000 Boost for URI’s Secure Computing Capabilities & Capacity
KINGSTON, RI – In an effort to ensure that researchers, scientists, professors, and students at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have the tools they need to keep up with an ever-evolving digital research landscape in a wide range of academic disciplines, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner are delivering a $795,000 federal earmark to boost secure computing and data infrastructure capabilities, capacity, and storage through high-performance computing (HPC) upgrades that will advance research in undersea vehicle technology as well as research focus areas across URI’s departments.
On Monday, September 23 at 11:00 a.m., Senator Reed and Congressman Magaziner will join URI President Marc B. Parlange, URI Dean of Engineering Anthony Marchese, students, and URI researchers and scientists to celebrate the federal funding secured by Reed and Magaziner for the “RI-SEC: Secure Computing & Data Infrastructure for the University of Rhode Island” project.
The group will also tour the National Institute of Undersea Vehicle Technology (NIUVT) – a federal, public, and private partnership at URI that provides research and technical support to advance current and future technologies in the undersea vehicle domain. The earmark funding secured by Senator Reed and Congressman Magaziner will primarily assist NIUVT in upgrading HPC capacity and strengthening cyber security in order to carry out and bolster its work linking academic researchers and subject matter experts with the U.S. Navy and Electric Boat, which helps build the U.S. Navy’s most advanced submarines.
Through the RI-SEC project, increased cybersecurity and data management enhancements and the hiring of new information technology (IT) security staff will offer more control and flexibility in capability, capacity, and data storage. These key upgrades will help NIUVT strengthen their work with the Navy and Electric Boat and will also help other departments at URI expand research by leveraging artificial intelligence, HPC, and other cutting-edge digital advancements.
