The goal of the Center is to facilitate the transformation of knowledge into innovations that will create new wealth & strengthen the regional economy, by planning & implementing a new model that creates a community utilizing research, technology, education, and commerce to leverage the resources of the individual partners.

The Center's Functions

The Center for Advanced Communications performs a number of functions, both within the industrial and scholastic community. These include:

• Performing research and development in the areas of information technologies, communication technologies, and sensor technologies based on corporate and government needs.
• Providing education and training based on the intersection between the R & D application area and the academic discipline involved.
• Evaluating the transfer and deployment of knowledge and the factors that may enable or inhibit the technologies. Thus the Center has and will continue to support both single- and multi-disciplinary projects.
• Convening conferences and workshops to strengthen the information and communication infrastructure in the Delaware Valley. The purpose of these activities is to accelerate the realization of the Center/Corporation vision in the form of knowledge and products.

Sponsor Benefits

Benefits to our sponsors include a regional and stable base of technology expertise, economic growth and job creation, cost-effective R & D, a strategic relationship in Information and Communication Technologies, and a pool of highly qualified students.