The Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA)
The Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration established to strengthen Australia's research capacity for protecting critical infrastructure (CIP) from natural or human caused disasters including terrorist acts.
The RNSA will facilitate a knowledge-sharing network for research organisations, government and the private sector to develop research tools and methods to mitigate emerging safety and security issues relating to critical infrastructure.
About RNSA
The RNSA has received ARC funding to achieve its goals of establishing a research network primarily under the National Research Priority 4 – Safeguarding Australia: Priority Goal 1 – Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP); and including some elements from other national priority areas such as frontier technologies, advanced materials, smart information use, transformational defence technologies, and protecting Australia from terrorism and crime.
The RNSA seeks to bring together the majority of Australia’s leading researchers, government and industry leaders involved in CIP.
The RNSA will facilitate a knowledge-sharing network for research organisations, government and the private sector to develop research tools and methods to mitigate emerging safety and security issues relating to critical infrastructure. The network will integrate complementary, yet diverse research areas including physical and information infrastructure security, and surveillance and intelligent systems.
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Contact
Assoc
Prof Priyan Mendis
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
T: +61 3
83447244
F: +61 3
83444616
E:
pamendis@unimelb.edu.au