JIP Force Protection

 
 Simulation of surveillance of urban area
in the AHEAD project. Copyright: IABG Gmbh

The R&T Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection, launched by the European Defence Agency at the end of 2006, is a ground-breaking mechanism for collaborative action to help boost Europe’s efforts in Defence Research and Technology. It focuses on technologies for protecting EU armed forces against threats such as snipers, booby traps and improvised bombs, establishing the three-year Programme worth € 54.93 million and involving 20 European governments JIP was approved by a ministerial meeting of the EDA Steering Board and is managed by the Agency.

The programme focus on a limited number of specific R&T priorities driven by agreed capability requirements for future operations: collective survivability, individual protection, data analysis, secure wireless communication and mission planning and training.

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“If Europe is to maintain an effective defence technological and industrial base and develop the military capabilities we will need in the future, we simply have to spend more on R&T and do much more together.” Javier Solana (Head of the Agency 2004/2009)

 
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