CREATE continues to attract a large amount of external funding for its research. Since its establishment in 2024, CREATE has received $94 million in funding. The vast majority has come directly from the US Department of Homeland Security, but the total also includes flow-through funding from other DHS Centers of Excellence in Research and Education (COEs); other federal agencies, most notably the Department of Defense in recent years; other federal sources, most notably the National Science Foundation; Private Industry; and State & Local Government Agencies.
CREATE Director Adam Rose remarked that: “CREATE has been especially successful in recent years in diversifying its funding portfolio, which has supported its traditional mission, as well as enabling us to branch out even further in the direction of natural disasters, international security concerns, and behavioral analysis. This is likely to be extended further as we pursue initiatives in security surrounding the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and research related to Artificial Intelligence.”
Below is a list of funding sources since 2004:
DHS – Department of Homeland Security
CBP – U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Coast Guard – United States Coast Guard
DNDO – Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
ICE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
NBACC – National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
NBIC – National Biosurveillance Integration Center
OUP – Office of University Programs
Policy Office – Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
S&T – Science and Technology Directorate
TSA – Transportation Security Administration
DHS COEs – Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence
ADAC – Arctic Domain Awareness Center
ALERT – Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats
BTI – Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute
CAOE – Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency
CIRI – Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute
NCFPD – Food Protection and Defense Institute (Now FPDI)
SENTRY – Soft Target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat Reality
START – National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
ZADD – Center of Excellence for Zoonotic and Animal Disease Defense
DoD – Department of Defense
DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Minerva – Minerva Research Initiative
Other Federal
AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory
DOE – Department of Energy
DOT – Department of Transportation
NSF – National Science Foundation
ONR – Office of Naval Research
PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USGS – United States Geological Survey
Other
Japan Foundation
United Nations
Private Industry
Leidos – Leidos, Inc.
RTX BBN – RTX BBN Technologies
SAIC – Science Applications International Corporation
Ygrene – Ygrene Energy Fund, Inc.
State & Local Gov’t
CEC – California Energy Commission
CPUC – California Public Utilities Commission
LADWP – Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
MWD – Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Posted June 26, 2026