The government has today launched a campaign to actively encourage inventors to create new forms of anti-terrorism devices.
The three-year counter-terrorism strategy, dubbed CONTEST, encourages the science and innovation industries to focus on three key principles:
- To use horizon scanning to understand future scientific and technical threats and opportunities and inform our decision making on counter-terrorism
- To ensure the development and delivery of effective counter-terrorism solutions by identifying and sharing priority science and technology requirements
- To enhance international collaboration on counter-terrorism related science and technology
To help get bright minds started, a 28-page PDF brochure has been made available to outline how industry and academia can play their part. The brochure states that science and technology are a key part of the response to terrorism, and adds that technologies such as biometrics are key toward progress. There's even a section on how to get funding.
We're not sure if there any jobs going at Q Branch, but can any of our eager-minded readers conjure up gadgets to help fight the war on terror? Share your thoughts in the HEXUS.community forums.
