Highway to Security: Interoperability for Situation Awareness and Crisis Management

Prepatory action 113700 on 'Enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security Research 2004-2006' (PARS)

The vision of the proposed project HiTS/ISAC is a more secure Europe through prevention of terrorism and organized crime. It addresses the interoperability of intelligence services to exchange information on suspicious activities in order to enable information analysis and fusion from different sources.

Superior situation awareness and cross-border interoperability are key enablers, leading to new technical and operational methods to work, train and co-operate across Europe. Today, information on suspicious activities in databases at law-enforcement authorities is distributed across Europe. The information is not easily available to other authorities in Europe, especially not "on-line".

The objective of HiTS/ISAC is to enable information analysis and fusion from many different sources, through secure cross-border on-line group co-operation between authorities, in order to detect and provide early warnings for suspicious activities, be it communication between suspected criminals, or anomalous movement of persons, goods or money, etc. HiTS/ISAC will develop a problem solving environment and demonstrate it in a virtual operations room which can be established anywhere, at any time. Tools and processes will be developed and implemented, and demonstrated using realistic scenarios.

Project Details

Duration: 22 months
Start date: 2006-06-01
End date: 2008-03-31
Project cost: 1.74 million euro

Coordinator:
Jan Larsson, Saab AB SWEDEN

Participants:
Saab AB SWEDEN
HUGIN EXPERT A/S DENMARK
EADS Defence and Security System SA FRANCE
TeliaSonera FINLAND
Swedish Defence Research Agency SWEDEN
EADS Secure Networks FINLAND
TietoEnator Alise, SIA Latvia
Denodo Technologies S.L. SPAIN
Cybernetica AS ESTONIA
UAB ERP LITHUANIA
Military University of Technology POLAND