Stephen Maurer is the Acting Director for the Information Technology and Homeland Security Project. The Goldman School's Project on Information Technology and Homeland Security ("ITHS") uses social science to analyze grand challenge problems facing information technology and homeland security. Current initiatives include (a) working with UCB, UCSF, and Duke colleagues to adapt open source methods to drug discovery for developing world diseases, (b) working with LLNL colleagues to study WMD terrorism, (c) using modern innovation economics to design R&D strategies for procuring technologies (e.g. bioweapons vaccines, drugs for neglected diseases) where patent incentives are inadequate.