Jersey. He promoted Stevens as bringing technological innovations to the realm of homeland security and military defense. In 2003, during the Iraq War, Hultin served as on-air military expert for WNBC in New York City. In 2004, he authored a much cited study, Securing the Port of New York and New Jersey: Network-centric Operations Applied to the Campaign against Terrorism. On July 1, 2005, Hultin became president of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He has overseen substantial growth and financial stability at the institution. He championed an affiliation with NYU, which was formalized in July 2008 and gave the institution a global platform while adding engineering to NYU's diverse list of subject disciplines. One of Hultin's first steps as the new president was to embrace a focus on "i-squared-e" – invention, innovation and entrepreneurship – to encourage educated risk-taking among faculty and students. In addition to integrating these skills into academics, NYU-Poly under Hultin collaborated with city and state governments and private industry to launch 3 business incubators and economic initiatives including the NYC Media Lab. During his tenure, enrollment increased by 57 percent, and the number of faculty positions is increasing. A $65 million capital plan is refreshing and expanding the downtown Brooklyn campus on MetroTech Center and will support a biomedical research center with NYU in Manhattan. NYU-Poly is also a partner in the NYU Center for Urban Science & Research, a public-private research center that will expand the MetroTech campus. Hultin is a board director of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, BritishAmerican Business, Inc. (BABI), the New York City Building Congress, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and is a director of the New York Council of the Navy League of the United States. He is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, the founding chairman of the Technology Management Education Association and an advisor to senior military and defense leaders. The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations awarded him the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2010. In 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter appointed Hultin to the Defense Business Board. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed him to the American Battle Monuments Commission. References External links The Global Century: Globalization and National Security (contains a foreword by Hultin) Stevens Institute press release, May 26, 2005 Biography on the NYU-Poly website Stevens experts issue report on gaps in