Quantum Computing One of Research Areas for Purdue U and MITRE’s New Public-Private Partnership

(HPC.Wire) Purdue University and MITRE are combining their expertise and capabilities to form a new public-private partnership focusing on key areas of national safety and security.
Purdue will join MITRE as one of its select academic vision partners. This strategic alliance allows both organizations to bring together their complementary expertise, assets and resources to advance innovation and workforce development in a broad range of critical sectors.
“Through our work with MITRE, we recognized the vast potential to expand our successful collaborative research and education model in cybersecurity to many other areas of focus,” said Theresa Mayer, Purdue’s executive vice president for research and partnerships. “Our shared commitment to solve problems for a safer world makes MITRE an ideal strategic partner for Purdue, and we are thrilled to solidify this through our signing of the vision partnership agreement.”
Initial research areas are:
Cyber.
Autonomous systems.
Microelectronics.
Avionics.
Data science.
Hypersonics.
Quantum computing.
Food-energy-water systems.