The stated goal of IRIS is to facilitate multi-disciplinary research in the use of technology to prevent, monitor, respond to and recover from natural or inflicted disasters. Create effective partnerships with first responders in particular Police, Fire, EMS and Military to come up with innovative use of technology with direct impact on their mission statements Facilitate commercialization of the developed technologies Create effective research collaboration with other research facilities to further this Mission. Our partnership stretegy is representative of these goals. Our current partners are lited on here.