Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) has the mission to respond to unique DoD requirements with experienced and knowledgeable technical project teams who have a personal commitment to quality. ISL understands emerging technologies and works with research sponsors to solve diverse and difficult problems utilizing laboratory resources and the University's engineering and natural sciences facilities. Our strengths are:

ISL scientists and engineers excel in one or more of the following:

Recent activity includes membership in a multi-university consortium doing research in complexity management to better understand, mitigate, prevent and devise more effective ways to cope with complex situations and events that can become threats to U.S. national security. Crises to be considered include weapons of mass destruction, international regional conflicts, asymmetric warfare, attacks on critical infrastructure or facilities, agricultural terrorism and cyber terrorism.

In addition to our DoD efforts, ISL provides research in information assurance, intrusion detection, and information management for other Federal and State of Texas agencies. We also provide technical assessments of the Texas telecommunications infrastructure in support of K-12 education and public health care. Most recently ISL is coordinating research and development for command and control of state agencies and first responders for Homeland Defense.

This brief summary highlights ISL's areas of expertise and gives a brief background on our laboratory. As our web pages are completed, there will be links to pages that discuss our core technologies and capabilities. Please return to our Web page to learn more about ISL. Should you have an interest in our work, or if you are interested in joining our staff, please contract our Director.