- Improvement of the protection of rail passengers -- The project will combine information from sensors, remote control or autonomous cameras, ground-penetrating radar and line scanners.
- Safer European borders -- to include gap analysis, enabling technologies, net-centric architectures and standardization issues
- Securing computers linked to networks -- "This platform will be open and originate from Europe," says the memo, "which will establish an alternative to proprietary US solutions that are expected to appear soon."
- Security information network, airport, terrorism, protection exercises -- "A top level information network will provide situation awareness for the whole European air transportation. Local networks will detect anomalies at airports followed by reactive and proactive measures against co-ordinated terrorist attacks."
- More rapid and efficient crisis management -- "The proposed MARIUS project lays in the development of a pre-operational autonomous command post, equipped with its own sensors, information and communication systems, which can be deployed quickly to monitor crisis management operation."
- Protection of airliners against MANPADS attacks (man portable air defense systems)
- Secure interoperability of intelligence services
- Standardization of the technical interface between a secure container and a data reader at a port or border crossing
- Unmanned aerial vehicles to peacetime security.
EU Announces Anti-Terrorism Project Funding
13 projects selected from 156 submissions
The European Union this month released a list of 13 newly funded anti-terrorism projects, from 156 submissions. The projects include:
