Intellect has announced the launch of RISC - the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Council. RISC is an alliance of suppliers, trade associations and academics and will ‘provide a single industry voice and channel of communication for government on strategic issues affecting national security and resilience. This will foster unprecedented industry-government partnership and dialogue to counter international and domestic terrorism’.

Chair Stephen Phipson said: “Through the formation of RISC the UK security and resilience sector will act as one, in concert with government, to deliver a significantly fortified frontline of security and resilience.”

RISC will immediately embark on a number of key priorities, including:

- Developing a ‘R&D roadmap’ with government that will ensure industry investment is better aligned with government strategic priorities; and

- A strategy to safely deliver major public events, including the 2012 Olympics.

Mr Phipson concluded: “RISC will be as financially strong as its corporate members, as ground-breaking as its best scientific members and as intuitive as its academic members. All of this will create a competitive marketplace that allows the ownership of critical technologies to remain within the UK. The dual prize will be stronger economic growth and enhanced national security.”

RISC members include:

Trade associations
Association of Police and Public Security Suppliers
British Security Industry Association
Defence Manufacturers Association
Intellect
NBC UK
Society of British Aerospace Companies

Academic Institutions
RUSI
Chatham House

Industry
BAESystems
EDS Defence
ESRI UK
Nexor
QinetiQ
SELEX Sistemi Integrati
SERCO
Smiths Detection
Thales UK

•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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