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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://asu.infoready4.com/"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:#F2F2F2;text-decoration:none"> Description</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;background:#F2F2F2"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">CAOE Research Grant Program Overview</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">The Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence, is seeking full proposals describing
research ideas intended to address issues/challenges that CAOE, DHS, or its federal partners have posed (see page 4 of the CAOE Broad RFP 2024 for those provided for this competition). The purpose of the proposal is to convey the essential problem area within
the four themes listed below and relevant to one or more DHS component agencies, demonstrate knowledge of prior art, identify a knowledge/capability gap, and propose a solution approach. CAOE leadership and DHS sponsors will review proposal submissions to
identify those for which funding will be considered. A formal review process including evaluation of scientific merit and relevance to the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) will be conducted. Proposers must be educational institutions but may include collaboration
with federal laboratories, industry and nonprofit organizations to create transdisciplinary research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">The CAOE focus includes the following Research Theme Areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">1. Economic Analysis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">: Analysis of <i>Consequences
and Costs of Homeland Security Threats and Hazards</i>; analyses of <i>the Benefit for Addressing Homeland Security Threats and Hazards; developing</i> <i>Economic and Decision Models of Terrorist Organizations; Experimental Economics</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">2. Data Analytics</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">: <i>Big Data Management; Data
Integrity and Security; Privacy and Ethics in Analytics; Data Visualization; Data Fusion and Integration; Predictive Analytics</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">3. Operations Research and Systems Analysis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">: <i>Optimizing
Homeland Security Operations and Resource Allocation; Network Analysis and Optimization; Game Theory; Decision Analysis; Probabilistic Analysis, Innovative Simulation Modeling</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">4. Risk Sciences and Risk Analysis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">: <i>Risk Analysis
and Risk Management; Risk Perception and Communication; </i>and <i>Management of Risk from Intelligent, Adaptive Adversaries</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">About the Center for Operational Efficiency</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">The Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency is a DHS Center of Excellence comprising a consortium of universities and industry partners whose mission is
to conduct research, education and workforce development activities that will respond to challenging problems and offer innovative solutions to issues faced by decision-makers in the Homeland Security Enterprise. Led by Arizona State University, the focus
of CAOE is to support the evolution of data-enabled analysis and decision-making practices within the HSE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none">More information on CAOE, the full RFP and Grant Application Portal can be found at</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none"> <a href="http://caoe.asu.edu/"><span style="color:#07708D">http://caoe.asu.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Ronald G. Askin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Executive Director, DHS Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Emeritus Professor, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">ron.askin@asu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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