News & Events

Reggie Bostick, Principal Faculty Specialist at ARLIS, has been selected for an important role on the University of Maryland’s Special Committee on Policy Review. His career journey proves that leadership and service go hand in hand with making a difference, and even having a little fun along the way.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) announces the creation of a new center aimed at harnessing the potential of quantum technologies to advance national security over the next several decades. The Maryland Institute for Quantum Applications will investigate how technologies such as quantum computing, networking and sensing can lead to new strategic tools and systems designed to enhance national defense capabilities.

Dr. Moneer Helu, Research Engineer at ARLIS, has earned one of the highest honors in the field of mechanical engineering: being elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This places him among a select group of just 3,385 Fellows out of ASME's 72,000 members worldwide.

ARLIS is excited to announce the selection of three INSURE partnership seedlings for funding to two members and one candidate member of the Intelligence and Security University Research Enterprise (INSURE) consortium. This announcement follows a competitive selection process for INSURE member-led and ARLIS-engaged research projects with high potential to support USG customer mission needs in future funded work and to position INSURE member faculty to more productively collaborate on ARLIS contracted work.

Research integrating human-machine systems is one of the core competencies driving ARLIS’s existence as a university-affiliated research center (UARC). This August the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) hosted its third set of Field Experiment events to showcase systems developed through its Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems (ArtIAMAS) cooperative agreement with the University of Maryland (UMD).

ARLIS has teamed up with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a member of its Intelligence and Security University Research Enterprise (INSURE) academic consortium in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The team is mapping coastlines and seafloor environments more effectively by designing intuitive interfaces and workflows to enhance spatial resolution and computational performance. Ultimately this research will make it easier for NGA analysts to generate better informed analysis.