Information Technology

Regional Advantages

The Information Technology industry drives business in The Research Valley. Whether it’s new software applications for homeland security technologies, breakthroughs in bioinformatics, or new advances in food processing, our region knows how to apply information technology to business.

People Power – A diverse, highly educated workforce supports The Research Valley’s expanding business base. Texas A&M’s College of Engineering is recognized among the top public engineering colleges for its undergraduate and graduate programs. It is home to the department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

As home to one of only two Internet2 centers, Texas A&M to become the premier institution dedicated to advancing the deployment of VoIP, a leading edge technology businesses use in their operations everyday.

Job growth in high-tech and knowledge-based industries are more likely in regions with ready access to a qualified workforce. Recently, The Research Valley received a Five-Star Knowledge Worker designation for its highly-technical workforce by Expansion Management Magazine.

R&D Resources

Many area companies draw upon the research expertise of Texas A&M’s faculty, whose broad base of technical knowledge enhances new product development in an array of industries.

Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Designated as the Engineering Research Agency of the State of Texas. The Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) partners with industries, communities, and academic institutions to solve problems to help improve the quality of life, promote economic decelopment, and enhance the ducational systems of Texas. TEES also promotes new technology education and investigates problems in health and the environment.

Center for the Management of Information Systems
The Texas A&M University Center for the Management of Information Systems (CMIS) provides a competitive advantage to its student, faculty, and industry members by facilitating an active partnership (aligning needs and resources) to provide robust, relevant educational opportunities, research support and corporate access.

To achieve their Mission, CMIS engages a highly active and innovative corporate membership who facilitates the CMIS Mission through coordination, participation, and sponsorship. CMIS seeks to provide member organizations a competitive advantage through participation in CMIS activities.

Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies
– TxTEC is an interdisciplinary research center of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a statewide engineering research and development agency of The Texas A&M University System whose mission is to focus research and development in telecommunications and information technology research and development in the A&M System. TxTEC’s goal is to increase the number and quality of telecommunications and information technology graduates available to meet current and future industry needs. We encourage researchers interested in making the promises of new technology and new ideas come true to get in touch with us at IT2

Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies
Collaboration is a primary reason for, and benefit of, creating The Academy. For centuries, university structures have encouraged, recognized, and rewarded individual achievement in a single discipline; today’s world and today’s challenges often require teamwork and cooperation in multi-disciplinary efforts, involving both public and private sectors. The Academy provides a mechanism through which academe and industry can work together to provide on-going leadership in integrating advanced telecommunications and information technologies into teaching and research programs which meet real needs in the 21st century. Priorities include

Emerging telecommunications technologies
High Performance information resources
Interdisciplinary educational programs
Incentives Program
Telecommunications infrastructure

Center for Information Assurance and Security
The Center for Information Assurance and Security promotes research, training and education concerning cyber-terrorism and the protection of computer and communications systems.

Texas A&M is one of a select group of universities to recently receive the National Security Agency (NSA) designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, a requirement for receiving federal funds from a new initiative for information assurance. Research initiatives currently receiving focus are:

Camouflaged network components – Frustrating the ability of a cyber terrorist to identify key network components based on traffic analysis.
Distributed security management – Reducing the threat of denial of service attack by distributing redundant processes within the network.
Real-time intrusion detection – Immediate detection of a denial of service attack with a corresponding employment of intelligent software agents to “swim upstream” and locate the source of an attack.
Mail server virus checking – Detecting the presence of infected files at the mail server before they are distributed to the addresses.

Business Climate

The Research Valley offers resources and services as a regional culture to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the IT industry.

Fibertown

Fibertown is a premier building and technology campus, located in historic downtown Bryan, offering integrated and flexible space where design, technology, and services are woven together and fully supported by professionals. Fibertown’s technological infrastructure provides access to a fiber nexus and six major carriers. This development provides redundant network infrastructure, multi-carrier Internet connectivity, disaster recovery services, a Tier 4 Data Center and award-winning high-tech office space for business, industry, and government. Fibertown’s vital technology center is directly linked via the Fibertown mainline fiber trunk to scientific, intellectual, and entrepreneurial capital and resources at Texas A&M University and is emerging as a vital center in Research Valley.

The Science Park at Research Valley

The Science Park at Research Valley will support scientific innovation and technology transfer within a 180,000 square foot building and throughout a beautiful 53 acre campus situated in a prime location on Highway 6 right in the center of College Station.