Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM)

GLEAMM tests, researches and develops the manufacturing of new electrical grid technologies and next-generation power electronic devices for public and private partners. Microgrid testing translates power system and microgrid technologies from prototype to field deployment. 

Microgrids offer clean energy and energy-efficient technologies, flexibility, quick response/control and security during grid- connected and islanded modes. Microgrid testing at GLEAMM's research facility focuses on getting microgrids and microgrid technologies from prototype to field deployment by allowing manufacturers and integrators to test their technology or configuration at actual power before implementation—only possible at a handful of facilities worldwide. 

Before field deployments, there is no substitute for testing cybersecurity tools at full power and actual load levels. GLEAMM's cyber-physical research and test platform reduces deployment risks and helps optimize the performance of hardware, communications, and security tools. It is important to simulate the dynamics of both the physical devices and the underlying communication networks, i.e., the communication system used by the cyber-physical system, which can be the target of cyber-attacks.

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Center for Pulsed Power & Power Electronics 

The P3E Center conducts research on pulsed power storing, shaping, transmitting and measuring high voltage, high current pulses with the goal of delivering electrical energy to a load or applicator. The center's pulsed power/explosives laboratory is considered the largest laboratory of its kind at any university in the nation.

The P3E Center has active programs for the development of pulsed power drivers with several tens of kilovolts to megavolt output at pulse repetition frequencies of up to 50 MHz as an enabling technology for high-power microwave generation (HPM), directed energy (DE) and industrial applications. This research includes all solid state switching (optically and electrically gated devices) and/or gas switching drivers with nanosecond risetimes and pulse durations from a few nanoseconds to microseconds.

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Institute for Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainment

IMMS aims to enable virtual reality and integrated computation, modeling, testing, and analysis research capabilities for aviation futuristic concept and technology demonstration and integration.

The determination of damage precursors and their mitigation at the very early stages of damage is key to monitoring platform health and achieving zero-maintenance philosophy. IMMS is establishing the scientific foundation, understanding and explanation of the damage precursors in metallic and composite materials at the inclusion-matrix interface and its propagation within the media from the atomistic point of view based on the failure of the atomic bonds. 

IMMS is innovating an artificial intelligence-integrated data fusion method to detect and repair erroneous values in parametric and maintenance data, which will enable the comprehensive health control and ensure robust operation. The proposed innovation reduces the noise that is introduced with data, providing clean, relevant and useful data sets that will increase both timeliness and effectiveness of analytical tools, algorithms and models. The methods will refine data without disturbing the integrity of it.

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Center for the Science & Engineering of Cyber Security

CSECS researches how to measure, assess, and enforce security in legacy systems, and how to build new systems that are secured. We create holistic and systematic approaches to develop automated tools for cybersecurity system analysis.

The center studies the principles of cybersecurity, including how to measure, assess, and enforce security in legacy systems and how to build new systems that are secured. The center also examines cyber security issues facing the general public, such as security in business enterprises, health care and national infrastructures. 

To achieve its objectives, the center focuses on research in:

• Theoretical underpinning of cybersecurity concepts.
• Safe and secure software development.
• Threat modeling, uncertain reasoning about security, and vulnerability analysis.
• Security evaluation, verification, and validation.
• Access and identity management.
• Wired and wireless network security.

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