Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)
"Knowledge is wealth that multiplies only if given away."
An increasingly complex, evolving, and fast-paced world necessitates a careful examination of the ways in which interactions between parties take place. Whether these parties belong to the customer realm, meaning those who receive services,...
The word ‘collaboration’, much like ‘innovation’, has been bandied about with some regularity in defence industry circles of late but what does it really entail? “Collaboration may be the single most important skill needed in...
There are already tools to make our cities less polluted and chaotic: cars and electric vans, car-sharing, apps that inform about traffic in real-time, domestic renewable energy generators, autonomous driving. They are tools that...
The MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator, a public-private partnership between the Department of Defense (DoD), New York University (NYU) and a large network of top U.S. research universities, has been officially launched at a...
Here’s an idea: why not allow privately-funded services and assets provided to defence and security to be temporarily used by third parties when not needed by military forces? The conditions under which this took...
Security need for two folds cooperation and synergies both between countries and among the different stakeholders (Defence, Research, Industry, Associations) Rome, 14/1 – The Honourable Domenico Rossi, Italian Under-Secretary of State for Defence, attended,...
An Intention Letter was signed between the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s Logistics Centre Woensdrecht (LCW) and the company Airborne Services BV for the shared usage of LCW’s facilities. Airborne provides advanced composite solutions for...
Officially launched in 2010, the Better Buying Power (BBP) initiative is a broad effort for the defense acquisition community to reform itself from within. BBP encompasses a set of fundamental acquisition principles to achieve...
Steve Wadey UK Managing Director of MBDA, and Business Minister Michael Fallon are the two co-chair of the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) – a new partnership between industry and government, with the scope to...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection today finalized the agreements for five public-private partnerships during an official signing ceremony. Under authority from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, CBP created a reimbursable fee agreement...
For more information about the State Department’s key public-private partnership achievements, see Key Partnership Achievements on the State Department website. On her last day as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced four new or expanded...
Jean-Paul Herteman, Chairman and CEO of Safran, and Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Defense, today signed an agreement to support small businesses within the scope of the Pacte PME Défense initiative launched by...
Cyber Framework: A new public-private partnership formed by the SANS Institute, the Consortium for Cybersecurity Action, is leading a push to develop a framework of key cybersecurity concepts and best practices. When cybersecurity legislation...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations National Security Investigations Division Assistant Director John Woods addresses how ICE is at the forefront of the nation’s civilian efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and investigate...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton addresses ICE’s Secure Communities strategy which improves and modernizes the identification and removal of criminal aliens and other high priority aliens from the United States....