San Diego Regional Homeland Security Interoperability & Testing Center

The vision of a San Diego Regional Homeland Security Interoperability & Testing Center was first described to me by Eric Frost and Bob Welty, both with SDSU, and I want them to have the credit.

The idea is to have a unique environment whereby students from multiple university’s would have the opportunity to work on vendor’s products in a hands-on fashion gaining relevant real world experience while at the same time assisting government agencies “test” new equipment on legacy frameworks.

Eric and Bob have envisioned a very win-win situation. Businesses, the vendor’s, would have a location to showcase new technologies, students would gain knowledge and exposure, and government agencies could see real-time interactions between new and existing technologies. It could provide a fantastic test bed for all type of technologies. The result of all this effort will be the general public who are provided a cost effective method to achieve a better level of protection/response from all types of emergency situations.

The center must be at arms length from the business community and government agencies to provide a non-bias point of reference. A university setting provides a nice medium and National University might be in a position to render assistance.

I would like your feedback as to how this vision can become a real operation.

See also: Master of Science Homeland Security And Safety Engineering
Dr. Shekar Viswanathan, Lead Faculty sviswana@nu.edu

http://www.nu.edu/Academics/Schools/SOET/AppliedEngineering/degrees/720-818.html