UNM receives millions of dollars in funding for research from all branches of the U.S. military, Department of Defense and the weapons industry while maintaining close ties to the federal defense establishment.
The most recent example of this occurred just last week. According to the Tuesday edition of UNM Today, UNM President David Schmidly recently signed a new memorandum of understanding with Sandia National Laboratories. The article states that the purpose of this MOU is to "enhance the opportunities for top students at UNM to find placement at Sandia" and "help secure external funding for research projects" in areas including "computing and information infrastructure," "homeland defense" and "national security."
According to its Web site, Sandia National Laboratories is heavily involved in military planning and weapons research and other research with war applications, including C3ISR (Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) Integrated Military Systems for Missile Defense and Strike Systems, complex adaptive systems and Homeland Defense and Force Protection.
C3ISR is a new term to me. It points the way for further research to see what is being done in that field.
Military dishes millions for UNM's weapons research - Opinion
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