ETI 2.0 consortium successfully kicked off!
The ETI 2.0 consortium successfully hosted its Kick-off Meeting on February 5 – 6, 2025, at the Historic Academy of Medicine (875 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30309), Georgia Institute of Technology. About 100 participants representing university partners, national laboratories, and the government joined together to build and explore the research collaborations between the labs and the universities to support the NNSA DNN R&D. The kick-off meeting also created and cultivated a research and education environment to support cross-cutting technologies across three thrust areas for nuclear nonproliferation, and train & educate the next-generation of researchers. Check here for more details.
The core mission of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation 2.0 (ETI 2.0) is to direct the multidisciplinary research and innovation that enable the technologies that support the NNSA DNN R&D, to train and educate the next-generation of researchers, and to bridge the gap between the university basic research and NNSA national laboratories’ mission-specific applications.
To address the evolving needs in nuclear nonproliferation, the ETI 2.0 team includes a combination of the core experts from the ETI Consortium (ETI 1.0) funded in 2019 as well as new members with additional capabilities. The ETI 2.0 Consortium is composed of twelve institutions of higher education (IHE) and twelve national laboratories, committed to the spirit of collaborative intelligence.
Technical Mission
The technical mission of the ETI 2.0 team is to advance technologies across three core disciplines: (TA1) data science and digital technologies in nuclear security and nonproliferation; (TA2) precision environmental analysis for enhanced nuclear nonproliferation vigilance and emergency response; and (TA3) emerging technologies. The primary thrust areas will be advanced by cross-cutting research projects in (CC1) novel radiation detectors and algorithms and (CC2) testbeds and digital twins. The unique aspect of this team is the universal leverage of collective expertise across all thrust areas. The three ETI 2.0 thrust areas form an interconnected triple-stranded DNA in their spirit: the projects outlined in this proposal will benefit from experts in more than one area.
The integral collaborative approach of ETI 2.0 is essential for training 21st century professionals who will be capable of effectively addressing modern nuclear nonproliferation problems, which are inherently multidisciplinary and require an ability to look beyond one person’s expertise. The ETI 2.0 Consortium will enable environmental analysis and emerging technologies thrusts to take advantage of the data science, novel radiation sensors, digital twins, and testbeds, while contributing back to enhance the methods and algorithm development.