Capability Gap [2.CGF.24] Lack in special forces (rapid deployment teams) Background Each EU MS located at the EU external borders is responsible for the management of their borders, thus it is a national obligation to proceed with necessary actions to prevent crisis situations and to respond with the available means effectively, at an early stage, …
Capability Gap [2.CGF.21] & [2.CGF.22] & [2.CGF.23] Lack of a Common Prefrontier Intelligence picture Prior to introducing and describing these three gaps, the different border types (airport, green and blue) should be introduced. Airport borders are the least challenging for practitioners to control. Border crossers arrive in a confined space, are visible as they walk …
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Capability Gap [2.CGF.20] Lack of a Common Prefrontier Intelligence picture Background A solution that will offer the desired prefrontier intelligence picture for various border types is required. This involves intelligence from land borders, maritime borders, and intelligence sharing among practitioners from different discipline organisations in the same country (initially) and subsequent cooperation between multidiscipline organisations …
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Capability Gap [2.CGF.18] & [2.CGF.19] Lack of early detection in difficult/challenging landscapes / weather conditions Background Border security and surveillance at the EU outside borders is a 24×365 operation required to ensure EU MS security against a variety of threats. As such, reliable long-range threat detection and positive identification of potential threats at day and …
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Capability Gap [2.CGF.17] Insufficient technology adoption mechanisms Background There are concerns about an “innovation emergency” across practitioners’ organisations from EU MS, the causes of which is related to limited or restricted adoption of technological solutions by them. The reasons that SOTA technology tools are not embraced by practitioners are: (1) The practitioners’ institution strategy is …
Capability Gap [2.CGF.16] Underutilised lessons learned culture Background Another gap that surfaced from the practitioners’ workshop is related with the overall lessons learnt process. More specifically, the need for the adoption of a solid approach to efficiently exploit lessons learnt from past events and other EU MS was identified. Knowledge developed from dealing with similar …
Capability Gap [2.CGF.15] Insufficient safeguards of intelligence about practitioners’ assets and resources Background Practitioners would like to prevent adversaries from gathering intelligence about them. This is described with capability gap number 2.CGF.15. In detail, security personnel operating along the borders, apart from the fact that they are custodians of sensitive information (both classified and unclassified) …
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Capability Gap [2.CGF.14] Lack of systematic identification and removal of illegal context on the internet Background The practitioners had identified that they need technology solutions to assist them with the detection of illegal content in the web so they can remove it afterwards. This is described in Capability Gap Finding 2.CGF.14. Upon the identification of …
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Capability Gap [2.CGF.13] Lack in support of legacy / deployed solutions Background The practitioners indicated that they are using already a large number of technology solutions for border surveillance tasks. These technology solutions vary from surveillance cameras (at the beginning the installed base of cameras were deployed for daily observation and at a later stage …
Capability Gap [2.CGF.12] Lack of a multi-sectoral ecosystem for security solutions. Background Security practitioners need solutions and products with open/common interconnection interfaces for systems that will be deployed in the borders. Further to Capability Gap No 2.CGF.11: Absence of security solution standardisation and certification, an approach is required to interconnect (with minimum effort) solutions from …
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