About IITA

IITA coordinates and focuses multidisciplinary teams on information technology application research issues of interest to the Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, and United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), as well as numerous civilian organizations.  Located at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, IITA is a  research center supported by the Headquarters Air Force, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), http://www.afosr.af.mil, USAFA, and other military and civilian organizations. The institute helps to develop research topics, selects researchers, administers sponsored research, publishes results, and hosts conferences and workshops that facilitate the dissemination of information to a wide range of private and government organizations. In addition, IITA seeks to help prepare USAFA graduates for the information rich environment of today's Air Force.  

From its inception, IITA has offered several advantages to our sponsors: providing maximum return for scarce research dollars; providing an objective and multidisciplinary perspective; tapping the skills and knowledge within the military academic community; and acting as a networking locus to bring together people and ideas.  

The field of information technology is always under change. It is pre-paradigmatic as a research domain. As a result, IITA recognizes the need to sponsor a variety of non-traditional research efforts. Although we have identified a number of topics and fields in which we seek to do research, scholars and sponsors are also encouraged to submit proposals on unusual or novel topics, or on topics that require non-traditional methods of inquiry.