Defense & Security

"Security is not a product, but a process."
---Bruce Schneier
In today's globally connected world, there are many real and perceived threats to national security. To guard against risk, VT-ARC devotes its resources to produce high impact, rapid fielding, and non-traditional advances in assessing defensive and protection deliverables. VT-ARC draws from the extensive technical and sociological expertise residing within Virginia Tech to build and direct multi-disciplinary teams dedicated to creating innovative solutions to complex national security challenges.
Technology Thrusts
- Threat capability analysis
- Advance technology warfare systems
- Autonomous systems & technologies
- Counter-terrorism & counter-narcotics technologies
- Advanced technology concepts
- Modeling & simulation of complex environments
- Power management
- Geospatial information
- Weapons of mass destruction security
- Technology scouting
- Informatics & large data exploitation
For further information on VT-ARC's defense & security expertise, please contact:
CAPT (ret) Oakley Key Watkins, III
keywatkins@vt-arc.org
703-879-8142 ext 110

