ROME, NY -- The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate at Rome has recently awarded contracts and grants totaling nearly $2.4 million to colleges and universities. Institutions receiving funds for research programs related to the directorate’s information technology mission include: -- Boston University, $1,700,000, "Stochastic Fluctuations in Gene Regulation." -- Columbia University, $299,475, "Incremental Learning and Updating of Intrusion Detection Systems." -- University of Southern California, $204,000, "Distributed Signal Processing over Wireless Networks." -- Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo, $173,908, "Moving Target Detection and Imaging Using Pulse Diversity PRF Staggering and Randomized Beam Steering."