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‘No one left behind’: Charles Konsitzke fights to recover fallen service members

Konsitzke helms a decade-old project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that brings together a coalition of experts and volunteers to locate MIA soldiers.

UW–Madison welcomes former acting National Security Agency director and U.S. Cyber Command commander as National Security Fellow

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Joe Hartman will advise the university on cyber, artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and partnerships with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.    Lt. Gen. Joe Hartman, U.S. Army (Retired), former acting director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and acting commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has joined UW–Madison as a National …

Shubhra Pasayat is using a DARPA young faculty award to build a next-generation deep ultraviolet laser diode

Quantum, fusion and AI stand out during DOE leader’s campus visit

National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) visits UW–Madison to explore research and innovation

UW–Madison connects to Vulcan, USSOCOM’s technology scouting ecosystem

UW–Madison is now part of Vulcan, the digital platform U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) uses to find, vet, and adopt new technology. Vulcan gives UW–Madison researchers a direct way to put their work in front of Special Operations Forces (SOF) operators, acquisition professionals, and government technology scouts. Vulcan is run by SOF Acquisition, Technology & Logistics …

UW–Madison joins Joint Directed Energy Consortium

UW–Madison is now a member of the Joint Directed Energy Consortium (JDEC), managed by the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL). NSTXL provides a wide range of opportunities outside normal grants and contracts processes. JDEC is a Department of War consortium supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering’s Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE) office. NSTXL …

UW–Madison joins Institute for Applied Engineering Academic Consortium

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has joined the Institute of Applied Engineering (IAE) Academic Consortium. The consortium is a collaboration of more than 40 universities that connects academic institutions with U.S. government sponsors, including the Department of Defense, national laboratories, and other federal agencies, to address complex national security and technology challenges.  Membership provides UW–Madison researchers, faculty, staff, …

WARF announces $160.7M total 2026 support for UW–Madison research

UW–Madison joins Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium

UW–Madison is now a member of the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), a nonprofit biomedical technology consortium that funds the development and rapid deployment of medical technologies that improve the health of service members and civilians. MTEC gives UW–Madison researchers a path to funding outside normal grants and contracts processes. MTEC holds a 10-year renewable Other Transaction (OT) agreement with …