{"id":166140,"date":"2022-09-28T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=166140"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:00:57","slug":"uh-tech-research-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/28\/uh-tech-research-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> tech research earns boost through new partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_151777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151777\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/manoa-cop26-sea-level-rise.jpg\" alt=\"tide crashing onshore\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/manoa-cop26-sea-level-rise.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/manoa-cop26-sea-level-rise-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/manoa-cop26-sea-level-rise-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean tech research is one of the areas that will be focused on through this new partnership.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has partnered with <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr>, a not-for-profit operator of six federally funded research and development centers, to identify opportunities for collaborative analysis, engineering and research to advance marine technology, enhance cyber defense, strengthen climate resilience, address natural resource management and test new energy technologies.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> will help connect <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> technologies with federal agencies to help accelerate commercialization and move impact-driven <abbr>UH<\/abbr> innovations from the lab to the market.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166143\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-ovpri-tech-research-partnership-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"two people sitting on a desk signing a piece of paper\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-ovpri-tech-research-partnership-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-ovpri-tech-research-partnership-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-ovpri-tech-research-partnership.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keoki Jackson, senior vice president, general manager, <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> National Security, left, and Vassilis <abbr>L.<\/abbr> Syrmos, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> vice president for research and innovation, right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Partnering with <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> provides a wonderful opportunity for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> to translate our world-class research into real-world solutions for the benefit of our state and beyond,&rdquo; said <strong>Vassilis <abbr>L.<\/abbr> Syrmos<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> vice president for research and innovation. &ldquo;We look forward to having access to <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr>\u2019s impressive expertise and reach that will strengthen the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> research enterprise and help to grow our economic and knowledge-based sectors in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This partnership will explore the following opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identifying aligned research and development projects<\/li>\n<li>sharing network connectivity and lab infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>supporting or establishing mentorship and internship programs at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> based on resources, opportunities and needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> will also explore potential collaborative projects related to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> health initiatives, data and health analytics, coastal engineering and coastal infrastructure resilience, data science and cybersecurity, aerospace engineering and blue tech (ocean science and engineering).<\/p>\n<p>As part of its national security work, <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> operates the Department of Defense\u2019s National Security Engineering Center. It helps military and intelligence organizations make wise investments in systems that work together, connect the innovation community to mission needs, and enable technology deployment to take military and civilian personnel out of harm\u2019s way&#8212;all while keeping an eye on the horizon for the next global challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our collaboration will maximize the capabilities of both <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> and University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to positively impact the Indo-Pacific region and the safety of the world,&rdquo; said Keoki Jackson, senior vice president, general manager, <abbr>MITRE<\/abbr> National Security. &ldquo;I\u2019m excited for what our two organizations can discover and innovate together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will be managed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.hawaii.edu\/\">Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation<\/a> with support from its <a href=\"https:\/\/research.hawaii.edu\/oic\/\">Office of Innovation and Commercialization<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership will be managed by the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93,749,1505,1467,1314,1432,942,73,947],"class_list":["post-166140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-climate-change","tag-cybersecurity","tag-innovation","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-office-of-innovation-and-commercialization","tag-sea-level","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166151,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166140\/revisions\/166151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}