Hultin testifies before the NJ Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee
Dean of Stevens’ Howe School headed a year-long NY/NJ port security study
HOBOKEN, N.J. — The Dean of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, Jerry MacArthur Hultin, testified yesterday afternoon before the New Jersey Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee at the New Jersey State House in Trenton.
Formerly Under Secretary of the US Navy, Dean Hultin was the Principal Investigator on a year-long study of port security in the New York-New Jersey region. The recently published report, “Securing the Port of New York and New Jersey: Network-centric Operations Applied to the Campaign against Terrorism,” has garnered national attention. (Please visit http://howe.stevens.edu/Research/stevens_report.html for a downloadable version of the report.)
The Assembly committee is chaired by Assemblywoman Joan A. Quigley, and the committee’s Vice-Chair is Assemblyman John Burzichelli. Also seated on the committee are Assemblymen Francis Bodine, Chris Connors, Gordon Johnson and Fred Scalera.
“We appreciated the opportunity to go before the committee today to discuss our findings and recommendations for network-centric solutions to port security issues,” said Hultin, after the committee session. “Assemblywoman Quigley and her colleagues are doing tremendously important work on homeland security matters, and Stevens looks forward to working with the committee now and in the future.”
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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