Jewel in the Crown
From SR
In the Jewel in the Crown, Intellect calls for Government, its agencies, and relevant stakeholders to join with its members and develop a national security & resilience architecture. It proposes the ‘Jewel Architecture’ based on four Cs (akin to the four which denote the quality of jewels), these being Cohesive, Collaborative, Comprehensive and Ceaseless.
The paper was launched by the group at their 2008 Security and Resilience conference.
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Key Areas
It addresses three key areas:
- Interoperability
- Sharing and using information and
- Capability
Interoperability
Interoperability concentrates on the complex environment of the stakeholder community. Due to this complexity it is difficult to achieve the necessary ‘integration on demand’ both operationally, as well as, technically. Intellect mapped out the stakeholder community in order to highlight how, in any given scenario, a various range of stakeholders come together – coalesce – either to prevent or respond to threats.
Sharing and Using information
This area calls for the use of new autonomous capabilities and systems that would increase effectiveness of information use and sharing. Information, enabled by technology, plays an important part in security and resilience. By improving sharing and use of intelligence, it would bring significant benefits for national security & resilience both strategically and tactically.
Capability
Capability area points to large capabilities held by stakeholders. It calls to the owners for greater disposal of these capabilities to other stakeholders, which would lead to greater benefits from the use of existing technology.
