| The multidisciplinary Center for Security Technologies (CST) nurtures the vision and efforts of respected practitioners to ensure the optimal implementation of security systems in a variety of settings while assuring appropriate consideration of their impact on privacy, public policy, the economy and the environment in collaberation with academic, corporate and governmental partners.
It is the mission of CST to advance through research in basic science, mathematics, and engineering those areas which can most directly improve security including:
- Physical aspects of security (intrusion detection, biological and chemical substance identification)
- Information aspects of security (networking, information awareness, and information theory)
- Law, economics, public policy
- and to transfer these technologies into practice.
Center enterprise goals include establishing new directions for industry; starting new ventures in collaboration with industry; leading the introduction of original technologies; and steering policy and standards initiatives. Educational goals include the development of academic activities and programs that will train the next generation of national security leaders; increasing U.S. student enrollment and the development of curricula at the undergraduate and graduate level in continued partnership with the University of Missouri at St. Louis and Rolla; and creating enthusiasm for learning and discovery with K-12 initiatives.
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