AAAS Annual Meeting

Date:  February 18, 2010 - February 22, 2010

Location:  San Diego, California

President's Invitation

AAAS President and Nobel Laureate Peter C. Agre invites you to join a diverse array of leading scientists, engineers, educators, and policy-makers at the association's 176th meeting. It will attract attendees from all U.S. states and territories as well as more than 50 countries.

Program Update

This large interactive conference combines renowned plenary and topical speakers with three specialty seminars and 147 symposia across 13 tracks. Doctoral candidates, postdocs, and professionals have until 14 October to submit posters for consideration in the General Poster Session. It offers an opportunity to present research to the broad community of scientists attending the AAAS Meeting.

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The Challenge

The task of assuring the security of our homeland involves protecting the citizens of the United States, the nation's critical infrastructure and key assets. This is necessary to sustain the nation's vitality against terrorism and other threats. This protection must originate at the community level. It requires discovering, developing and deploying new technology that will support first responders and key decision makers in local communities.

The Mission

NIHS' mission is to discover, develop and deploy solutions that protect and preserve the critical infrastructure of the nation's communities.

The Institute

NIHS aligns projects and research objectives with the needs and requirements of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The strategy is to manage a distributed research enterprise that effectively transitions research and development into solutions. NIHS works with DHS to determine technology needs at the community level. Then, teams are quickly assembled from multiple universities to develop solutions to the needs.

The Strategy

Through management of the Kentucky Critical Infrastructure Protections Program (KCI), the National Institute for Hometown Security (NIHS) provides an ongoing, integrated program dedicated to developing new technologies and devices. NIHS works through qualified academic institutions to accomplish the technological objectives.