The results of the 2008 call for proposals for security research under the FP7 programme are starting to filter through. I’ll detail the interesting ones here and try and produce some kind of overview document once all the contracts are released.
The SCIIMS project on a “Strategic crime and immigration information management system” is a three-year FP7 project led by BAE Systems and featuring Indra and Elsag Datamat (a Finmeccanica company). According to the contract summary, SCIIMS “will focus upon an overarching question from which the developed system, demonstration and experimentation will answer: In the European Union context how can new capabilities improve the ability to search, mine, and fuse information from National, trans-national, private and other sources, to discover trends and patterns for increasing shared situational awareness and improving decision making, within a secure infrastructure to facilitate the combating of organized crime and in particular people trafficking to enhance the security of citizens?”
The SCIIMS Consortium “will utilize State of the Art products which will form the platform to develop new innovative capabilities and technologies. This approach is designed to provide the EU with an early exploitation opportunity by the consortium & User Groups”.
Capabilities and technologies will include:
- Data Mining of large data sets utilizing a data stream approach.
- Information Management, and fusion techniques in order to analyze relationships between different pieces of information.
- Web/database semantics tools to provide comprehensive search and retrieval of information.
- Decision aids based on self learning probabilistic tools.
So, more data mining, more sharing of data, more defence-industry led EU surveillance projects – business as usual for the FP7 programme.
Start date:2009-11-01 End date:2012-10-31 Duration:36 months Project Reference:218223 Project cost:3595562 EURO Project Funding:2318996 EURO Programme Acronym: FP7-SECURITY Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme Subprogramme Area:Secure strategic information management system Contract type:Collaborative project (generic) Subject index:Information, Media, Security Other Indexes:Organised Crime,Data Mining,General Assembly,Web Crawling,Experimentation,Demo,User Groups,Information Fusion, Data Integration,Decision Aids,People Trafficking,People Smuggling,Consortium
