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10.4.3 Common Security Capabilities Plan/Independent Adequate Framework
Before implementing an R&T plan it is necessary to develop an R&T strategy based on:
Needs defi ned by the public and private end users in that case of “policy driven” research
A shared global vision
Capabilities priorities
This can be done by work to defi ne and prioritize “capabilities” in a capability development plan. The aims of such work are:
To make the global vision more specifi c and thus more useful
To identify priorities for capability development
To bring out opportunities to pool and cooperate
The CDP can (and should) be used as an important tool to guide R&T investments, but the CDP is not a work addressing only R&T:
The CDP focuses on needs for capability improvement in security task terms, and not in technologies or R&T task
The CDP does not focus exclusively on equipments or R&T: the outputs can be global technological needs for a better
effi ciency but also a better organization, a better use of existing resources etc. Not everything that is proposed by the CDP
necessarily has an R&T component
Due to its importance (in particular the defi nition of R&T priorities), this capability development plan can be prepared by an
“Independent Adequate Framework” populated by experts from Member States, Agencies/Institutions dealing with operational
issues, through a constructive dialog between that structure and the “research world” (public laboratories and industry).
If we compare with the work done by Member States or EDA on the same topic “capabilities development plan”, the main
diff erence is not on the fi nal objectives but on the participants: for the security domain a lot persons in charge of security
missions (for example some surveillance tasks, some critical infrastructures) come from the private sectors and capabilities and
have to participate in that independent structure.
The CDP is not a multinational investment plan. It is linked to the EU security missions and to security missions of EU
Member States, and the private sector. It is an important diffi culty to take into accounts the priorities and capabilities
required by other sides.
One key factor is to diff erentiate when there are capabilities gaps to solve if it is due to:
A research gap
A development gap (to de diff erentiated from a research gap: this gap is often a “money gap”
A resources gap (money, people,)
An organization gap
Etc.
Depending on the answer, a technology priority can be given.
Work in the border land capability development / R&T management development is needed to make that guidance concrete.
The composition of such an adequate framework must have some people with a good technology level.
There also must be a dialog between this capability framework and
A parallel equivalent R&T structure in charge of the R&T implementation
Public labs and industry in charge of R&T execution
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