The three universities involved in the security consortium put together this week by Northrop Grumman will have wide latitude to pursue research projects as they see fit. The researchers, in fact, will be able to work on the kind of long-range projects that often go unfunded because they don t show short-term commercial promise. Northrop will not be directing the research projects or preventing the researchers from publishing their findings. The goal is for the researchers at MIT, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon to work together and share ideas and projects.
Source: https://threatpost.com/new-security-consortium-focus-long-term-projects-120309/73201/