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UND asks Legislature to fund SCIF and national-security research infrastructure
Summary
UND presented a 12-item capital priorities list to the committee that emphasizes a Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), a large counter-UAS project, satellite test beds, a digital twin partnership with the Space Development Agency and cyber/radar testbeds tied to Grand Forks military infrastructure.
Ryan Adams, dean of Engineering and Mines at the University of North Dakota, told the committee the university’s top capital priorities are driven by increasing space and national-security research demand in the Grand Forks region.
“A SCIF is a Secure Compartmented Information Facility. It allows us to process classified information and to work in classified settings, which as we enhance our work in space and national security, becomes a necessity,” President Armacost explained before Dean Adams described the operational need.
Adams said the university’s…
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