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Board directs staff to negotiate term sheet for UWF’s Research for Tomorrow proposal to expand cybersecurity and computational research

5689888 · August 27, 2025
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The Triumph Gulf Coast board voted 5–0 to direct staff to negotiate a term sheet with the University of West Florida for a project that would expand research centers in analytics, computational intelligence and cybersecurity and create 101 net new jobs over 10 years.

The Triumph Gulf Coast board voted unanimously to direct staff to negotiate a term sheet with the University of West Florida (UWF) for the university’s Research for Tomorrow proposal, a multi‑year plan to expand research capacity in cybersecurity, advanced analytics and computational intelligence.

Dr. Rick Harper, Triumph’s economic advisor, summarized staff analysis and said the project received a top staff rating for economic impact. He said Triumph funding would…

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