I527-290 ESRIF Final Report (WEB).indd - European Commission

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From WG What? Why? How? Key link
elements
running
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short term
and ongoing
3.2; 3.3; 3.7.2;
3.7.3; 3.11; 3.12; N/A
Before implementing an R&T plan it is necessary to
develop an R&T strategy based on:1) needs defined by
the public and private end users in that case of “policy
driven” research 2) a shared global vision 3) capabilities
priorities.This can be done by a work to define and
prioritize “capabilities” in a capability development plan.
The aims of such a work are :A) to make the global vision
more specific and thus more useful;B) to identify
priorities for capability development; C) 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: I) the CDP focuses on needs for capability
improvement in security task terms, and not in
technologies or R&T tasks II)the CDP does not focus
exclusively on equipments or R&T: the outputs can be
global technological needs for a better efficiency 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.
Members States employ different approaches
for the management of the Security Research
Plans ranging from the establishment of
dedicated National Authorities to the
extension of the role of existing structures.
The variety of implementation approaches
represents an issue for ESRIF,
84 10 Compatibility of security
capabilities among MS
At the end the capability development plan must be get
a political approval at the right level. For us the
designated lisbon treaty High Rep / EC Vice Pdt is the
good person for an approval. The capability development
plan must be a continuous task to implement each year,
due to the evolution of threats, of technologies etc. After
a starting work, for one or 2 years, creating an initial CDP,
an annual upgrading has to be done. We have to define a
permanent network / structure with 2 geometries: one
for the initial work, another to annually upgrade the
CDP…Due to its importance (in particular the definition
of R&T priorities), this capability development plan can be
prepared by an “Independent adequate Structure”
populated by experts from MS, Agencies/Institutions
dealing with operational issues, through a constructive
dialog between that structure and the “research world”
(public laboratories and industry)
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