A selected lists of major grants that the lab has been awarded over the years.
$880,026 grant from USCYBERCOM for “Operationalizing Cyber Situational Awareness Research: Capability Exploration”.
August 2018 – July 2021. Principal Investigator.
$110,000 from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “Emerging VEO Threats to the Homeland”.
July 2018 – June 2019. Co-Principal Investigator.
$180,000 from Nebraska Research Institute for “Human-Machine Collaboration”.
June 2018 – July 2019. Principal Investigator.
$200,000 grant from The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office for “Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset”.
October 2018 – December 2019. Co-Principal Investigator.
$259,864 contract from Union Pacific Railroad awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Legacy System Redesign”.
September 2015 – July 2016.
Understand if there are user experience improvements that could be implemented, productivity gains that are possible, and overall redesign elements of some legacy software that may be desirable. Principal Investigator.
$265,191 grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Center for Studies of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Organizational Determinants of Violence and Capacity for Destruction”.
August 2015 – July 2018.
An assessment of ideological organizational features in relation to their capacity for innovative and violent performance. Co-Principal Investigator.
$70,874 contract (3 awards) from Triangle Experience Group (TEG) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Advanced Collaboration Enterprise Service (ACES) Undergraduate Research Assistant”.
May 2015 – Jul 2019.
Assistance with the installation and maintenance, technical development, and experimental design of the ACES system. Principal Investigator.
$51,500 contracts (4 awards) from Omaha Steaks awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Using Eye Tracking Data to Gauge User Experience with a Mobile Website”.
Feb 2016 - Jun 2019.
Assistance with the installation and maintenance, technical development, and experimental design of the ACES system. Principal Investigator.
$200,000 grant from Nebraska Research Institute for “Human-Machine Holographic Laboratory”.
July 2017 – June 2018.
Produce and test prototype holographic kiosks. Principal Investigator.
$108,692 grant from the University of Nebraska POE for “Studying Violent Extremist Organizations Graduate Research Assistantship”.
August 2016-December 2019.
Create a system for monitoring and capturing transient online VEO propaganda. Principal Investigator.
$100,000 from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “Interactionist Organizational Recruiting Study: Homegrown Violent Extremism”.
October 2017-September 2018.
Examining individual differences and media channels that influence homegrown violent extremism. Co-Principal Investigator.
$214,984 contract from United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Intelligence Support to Deterrence Operations”.
September 2015 – Mar 2017.
Summarize relevant social science research describing analytical process and cognitive method related to deterrence, as well as organizational pathways to apply the processes and methods. Co-Principal Investigator.
$249,745 contract from United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Decision Support Capabilities for National Leadership”.
September 2015 – October 2016.
Provide a theoretically sound and implementable framework for describing USSTRATCOM’s mission for decision support to National leadership. We will have a particular focus on the sharing of knowledge across organizational boundaries, the formation of trusted relationships, problem formulation, and the operational conditions for effective collaboration. Principal Investigator.
$399,988 from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Pilot of Joint Capability Technology Demonstration of Advanced Collaboration Enterprise Service”.
Technical demonstration and research into group collaborative processes supporting a national level event. Principal Investigator.
$69,511 from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Center for Studies of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “ISIL Organizational Futures: Leadership and Cyber Profile”.
February 2015 – December 2015.
Analysis of the alternative futures for ISIL as an organization by evaluating leader succession possibilities (i.e., alternative leadership decision-making style and resulting organizational structure in potential future operating environments. Co-Principal Investigator.
$477,827 in contracts (4 awards) from United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Strategic Leadership Graduate Fellows Program”.
February 2014 – July 2017.
The planning and implementation of a customized graduate education-level leader development program for emerging leaders at USSTRATCOM. The program provides a cohesive set of exercises, applications, experiences, and projects geared at increasing core competencies related to diverse issues of National Security such as countering CBRN, anticipating threats to National Security, innovation management, and identifying vulnerabilities in cyber infrastructure. Co-Principal Investigator.
$399,500 grant from the Nebraska Research Initiative awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Advanced Collaboration Enterprise Service (ACES)”.
Jun 2015 – Dec 2016.
Evaluation of individual cognition in a spatial computing environment, group cognition in the same environment and multi-team system cognition (team of teams) for collaboration. Principal Investigator.
$499,878 contract from United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Decision Support Capabilities for National Leadership”.
October 2013 – September 2015.
An independent assessment of data integration capabilities to support decision-making and assess risks during National Leadership decision-making. Principal Investigator.
$140,385 grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Cyber Security Division (CSD) for “Critical Infrastructure Partnership Culture Study”.
August 2014 – June 2015.
Develop concepts that are key to the successful development, operation and sustainment of complex public-private partnerships that address critical infrastructure security & resilience. Co-Principal Investigator.
$360,408 grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Managing Sustained Online Engagement to Solve Community Problems”.
September 2013 – July 2016.
The focus of our proposed study is on the support of open collaboration through various managerial, technological, and process intervention strategies. Co-Principal Investigator.
$199,789 contract from United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Convergence of CyberSpace and CWMD Pathways Phases I and II”.
October 2013 – September 2014.
Create a baseline understanding of an adversary’s innovative use of cyber assets to proliferate and employ WMD materials, technology, and expertise. An analytical study that addresses not only the nexus between Non-State Actors (i.e., Violent Extremist Organizations/VEOs) in the proliferation of WMD but also consequences and response capabilities of a simultaneous WMD cyberterrorism attack on national instruments of power. Co-Principal Investigator.
$184,430 grants (3 awards) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Center for Border Security and Immigration awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Avatar-based Kiosk for Screening”. September 2011 – December 2014.
Develop an Avatar kiosk for advanced Human-Computer Interaction. Principal Investigator.
$150,000 grant from the Rural Futures Institute awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Using Crowdlearning for Leadership Development in Rural Communities”.
September 2013 – June 2015.
Using online collaborative learning to improve leadership development in rural areas. Co-Principal Investigator.
$87,000 contract from PKITDC awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Mobile Applications and Web-Based Decision Support Systems”.
December 2011 – December 2012.
Creation of mobile applications for telemedicine decision support and on-line decision support system for foundation resources. Principal Investigator.
$89,000 contract from The University of Nebraska Medical Center and PKITDC awarded to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for “Support development of NATO Special Operations Forces distance education material”.
December 2011 – December 2012.
Course development and content delivery. Principal Investigator.