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Ideas wanted to improve aviation security
DB News: 26/08/2010 - 16:28
Students, academics and businesses invited to suggest improvements to any stage in the air travel process.
Students, academics and businesses are being invited to submit ideas on how to improve aviation security.
The ideas can be designed to improve any stage in the air travel process, from planning and booking a trip, right through to boarding an aircraft.
Successful designers will have the opportunity to develop their ideas into real products, with the government teaming up with defence electronics supplier Thales, who can arrange for the best ideas to be trialled and tested in UK Airports and showcased at an industry event in December.
Participants can also share in a cash prize from a fund worth £50,000.
The project is being run by the government’s innovation in science and technology in counter terrorism (INSTINCT) programme which aims to encourage industry and academia to focus on finding new counter-terrorism ideas and solutions.
The minister for security Baroness Neville-Jones said: "Terrorists will always look for new ways to beat the system which is why we have to stay ahead of the game in protecting our national security."
"There is no reason why an innovative university project couldn’t be the next equivalent of biometric passports or baggage scanners."
