... the EU’s multidisciplinary and mission-oriented approach, security research will focus on four major objectives:

Offering protection from terrorism and crime. Securing infrastructures and utilities. Securing borders. Restoring borders in a crisis.

Europeans have a cooperative mindset toward security R&D. Describing Germany’s three-year plan to spend 123 million euros — $177 million — on security research, Wolf-Dieter Lukas, director general of Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research, said at a conference in March that Germany doesn’t want to develop security technologies in isolation ... |fcw

=federal computer week, didn't know they exist. anyhow, interesting points. and the question is: who gets the jackpot? not the peanuts from germany, the 7th framework offers

more than $2 billion in annual security R&D each year under the program

i am wondering how often sample rates of ~30 will be enough to "secure" human (not borders) so that one gets some share of the pot. a popular number when it comes to those kind of studies ...

will there be a standard from geneva. they should consider, after all ...