OMAHA- Federal funding for counterterrorism research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha remains in limbo after the consortium leading several projects received mixed messages from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week.

The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center, better known as NCITE, learned April 8 that its 10-year cooperative agreement originally worth $36.5 million had been terminated by DHS.

A day later, however, DHS notified UNO it was pausing the termination of NCITE’s cooperative agreement, which allowed the center to begin building a network of researchers across dozens of universities around the country and the world.

“NCITE and UNO have not received further updates from DHS,” the university said in a statement. "The university is hopeful that DHS will continue to fund NCITE research."

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