DyDAn is one of four Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Centers of Excellence affiliated with the Institute for Discrete Sciences, which is a joint project between the DHS and the national laboratories, based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The IDS University Affiliate Centers of Excellence are:
Rutgers University DyDAn: Center for Dynamic Data Analysis	Fred Roberts, PI
Information Sciences Institute (USC) CKID: Center for Knowledge Integration and Discovery	Eduard Hovy, PI
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign MIAS: Center for Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis	Dan Roth, PI
University of Pittsburgh CERATOPS: Center for the Extraction and Summarization of Events and Opinions in Text	Janyce Wiebe, PI