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Phelan, CEO of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).
The summit was also used to formally launch the 5RD Council, a ‘five-eyes’ initiative between Australia, Canada, NZ the UK and the US to co-operate on civil security research and development in an unclassified forum.
Dr Richard Davis, Chief Technology Officer National Security at the NSSTC said the 5RD Civil Security Council initiative is a multi-lateral forum with the aim of “inform- ing and co-ordinating public safety, research, development and evaluation (RDT&E) to expand capacity and deliver more efficient and cost-effective access to results.”
CIVSEC 2018 was the first public unveil- ing of the 5RD Council, and was represented by Dr Davis; Director General Defence Research and Development Canada, Dr Mark Williamson; the UK Home Office’s Science & Technology Officer Simon Staffell and Jay Martin, Director of Research & Development Partnerships (S&T Directorate) with the US Department of Homeland Security.
CIVSEC 2018 Innovation Awards
Day two of the event also included the announcement of the winners of the Industry Defence and Security Australia Limited (IDSAL) Civil Security Innovations Awards, which recognises innovation in the fields of civil security and community pro- tection. At CIVSEC 2018 the awards were held across five categories, including Cyber Security; Physical Security and Policing; Disaster Relief, Emergency Management and Humanitarian Services.
In the Cyber Security Category the Innovation Award was won by Fivecast, for automated storage and analysis of information gathered from open sources, and Droneshield Limited won a high com- mendation for its Drone Gun, a counter- UAS weapon.
The Innovation Award for Physical Security and Policing went to Intelligent Security Australia for its mobile, Wi-Fi and cloud-enabled surveillance system. The com- pany also won the SME Innovation Grant for the same product.
In the Disaster Relief, Emergency Management and Humanitarian Services category, DST Group and the University of Melbourne won the Innovation Award for their work in the surveillance and prediction of disease outbreaks in real time. Zirkata was highly commended in this category for its cloud-based shared mapping system for fire and emergency services, which is automati- cally updated.
The DSTG/University of Melbourne team also won the National Innovation Award for their work in disease outbreak prediction.
“Civil security is a very diffuse field that embraces everything from cyber and transport security to policing, bor- der protection, counter-terrorism, disas- ter relief and emergency management,” IDSAL CEO Ian Honnery said. “We want to recognise the skills and expertise that exist within Australia and reward the highly innovative work which is being undertaken by Australian compa- nies and individuals.”
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