Nine new projects to be funded by the Security & Defence PLuS will support research to address critical national security and defense challenges. The organization is part of the PLuS Alliance, a partnership of three leading research universities — the University of New South Wales, King’s College London, and Arizona State University. Project leaders include three Fulton Schools faculty members: Heather Lum, an assistant professor of human systems engineering in The Polytechnic School ; Qijun Hong, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and Professor; and Katina Michael in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, an expert on socio-ethical implications of emerging technologies with an emphasis on national security.