The agreement cements collective commitments to advancing emerging cybersecurity technologies.
The UK’s Ministry of Defence, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Canadian Department of National Defence are to work collaboratively to develop concepts of operations that focus on real-world challenges.
The three agencies will collaboratively pursue research, development, test and evaluation technologies for artificial intelligence, cyber, resilient systems and information domain-related technologies.
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will be the lead agency for the UK. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) will be the lead organisation on behalf of Canada.
Dr Nick Joad, director science and technology at UK Ministry of Defence, said the agreement cements collective commitments to advancing emerging cybersecurity technologies.
Stefanie Tompkins, director at DARPA, said: “We know we’re stronger together than separately. The trilateral collaboration is a big step toward enhancing our understanding in the outlined research and development thrust areas.
“Working with our international partners on science and technology helps us all leverage each other’s individual strengths in order to develop much greater collective capability.”
In addition to strengthening international partnerships, the goal is to continue reducing technological risks so new capabilities can transition into operational use as quickly as possible.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
