The Forum Securitatis student Tove Frykmer, Lund University, will during October 2016 to March 2017 be a guest researcher at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley. (http://ccrm.berkeley.edu/). Her research concerns how collectives of people or organisations solve problems during crisis. In Sweden, she is working in a project called “Adaptive command & control and collaboration within the Swedish crisis management”, together with FOI and FHS. The purpose of the project is to study how command & control and collaboration can work in accidents and crises of both today and tomorrow. Forum Securitatis will support the stay with mobility funding.

We wish her a pleasant and inspiring stay “over there”.

The EU project SUBCOP originated in the attacks on the London Underground system where several explosives detonated. In late May, the result was demonstrated at Centre for Teaching and Research in Disaster Medicine and Traumatology in Linköping. Link to features in the Swedish media (in Swedish):

http://mobil.corren.se/nyheter/linkoping/sa-ska-terrorister-stoppas-om4152296.aspx

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6439495

SUBCOP webpage: http://www.subcop.eu/

In August/September there will be a study visit to Gothenburg.
We will visit the new common C2 (command and control) central for SOS Alarm and Emergency services
(sv: Stor-Göteborg räddningscentral) and the C2 center at the County Agency (sv. Länsstyrelsen).

In October the PhD course in IT and cyber security takes place. More information will come in a few weeks.

In November there will be a workshop in “Command and control for societal security”, that is based on
MSBs new model for common grounds for collaboration.

Fredrik Gustafsson gave an invited plenary talk at ICRA, the premier conference in robotics, for 1500 delegates:

http://www.icra2016.org/conference/keynotes-plenaries/fredrik-gustafsson/

Read the blog post by policy advisor Johan Bergenäs in the Congress Blog, the Hill, about US Wildlife crime bill to combat wildlife trafficking.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/279661-wildlife-crime-bill-deserves-unanimous-consent-in.

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverige-far-nytt-militart-cyberkommando

In Swedish.

The rules that govern how Sweden and other countries may spend development aid was amended in March . As a so-called humanitarian super power, this is important for Sweden as aid resources can now be expended for some military activities. Johan Bergenäs, security policy advisor in Security Link, writes what this means in practice and how it is an opportunity for cross-sectoral partnership.

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/authors/420/johan-bergenas

The paper ‘Features for micro-Doppler based activity classification’ was one of the top 20 most downloaded papers across all IET Journal titles in January 2016. The paper is a combined result of the Security Link project DASA and the FOCUS project muDAC.

Read the article

By scanning and analyzing large amounts of data, new research can support law enforcement authorities in tracing criminals who sell drugs on the Internet . Lisa Kaati , who along with her colleagues participates in several Security Link projects, are using so-called stylometric analysis to analyze texts on the Web.

Link to article in Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish)

Read the article in the Vinnova magazine “Tidningen Innovation” here (only in Swedish).