04 788 AGREEMKNT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND ON COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AND OTHER HOMELAND CIVIL SECURITY MATTERS The Government United Kingdom of the United States of America of Great Britain and Northern and the Government of the Ireland hereinafier referred to as the Parties relating Having a common interest in research and development in astructure protection and other homeland civil security matters to critical Seeking to make the best use of their respective research and technology development capacities eliminate unnecessary duplication of work and obtain the most efficient and cost effective results through cooperative activities Desiring to increase the exchanges of information and personnel in areas pertinent to the identification of homeland civil security threats and countermeasures and the development of technical standards operational procedures and supporting methodologies that govern the use of relevant technologies crifical infiastructures and other Stressing that physical and cyber-based homeland civil security capabilities both governmental and private are essential to the operations and security of the Parties' respective economies and governments and that Noting that the Parties' economies are increasingly interdependent in astructure protection and homeland civil security are of paramount concern to thc Parties' respective governments development of development testing evaluation technical standards and operations in both countries in chemical biological radiological nuclear and explosive countermeasures and in other areas that could enhance critical in astructure protection and homeland civil security Being aware of research under m angements such as the Noting the important work accomplished Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretary of Defense on behalf of the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Concerning Counter Terrorism Research and Development of April 6 1995 and desiring to avoid duplicating those efforts Recognizing a common desire to expand Party minimize unnecessary obtain more efficient and cost-effective results and adapt more flexibly to the dynamic threat environment the homeland civil security duplication technology capabilities of each of work through information exchanges and the conduct of jointly-funded projects that are mutually beneficial and that relate to the application of state-of-the-art and emerging security technologies making best use of the Parties' respective research development and testing and evaluation capacities Affirming a common interest in enhancing the longstanding collaborative efforts of the Parties' respective agencies private sector and governmental organizations and academic institutions in generatmg scientific and technological solutions to counter threats reduce vulnerabilities and respond to and recover from incidents and emergencies in those areas having the potential for causing significant security economic and or social impacts Desiring to set forth a vehicle for the conduct of cooperative scientific and technological research development testing and evaluation in the fields of critical inf'rastructtiie protection and homeland civil security Agree to the following ARTIcLE I Definitions For purposes of this Agreement between the Government of the Umted States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Cooperation in Science and Technology for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Other Homeland Civil Security Maffers the Agreement the Parties have adopted the following definitions Business Confidential Information Has the meaning given to it in Section III of Annex I to the Agreement between the Government of the United States and 'the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on concerning the Agreement on the Annex 1995 Intellectual Property Rights of November 29 Classified Information Official information that requues protection for ' civil security national security law enforcement commercial or other reasons and is so designated by I I I I I I I 4 I I I I I I I I II I I I I 'I I I ' I' I l I I I I I I I I I I I 'I I l I I I I I I I I I II I I II I I ' 'I 'I I I ' t II -I I I I I I I I I % I I I I I I I I I I I I I 4 I I I I I I 'I I I I I I II I I -I I I I I I I I I I I 4 'I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I I I P P ' I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ' I I I I ' ' I I 4 I I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I II I I I I Q I 'I ' t t 't t t I I ' I I P I I t t I I t I I I I I t I I I t I t- t I i t y I I I I I t I I t t ' 't 't I I I t - I I I t I I t I 't I t I tl I I I t I I t t 0 t t I I I I I I I I t I I 'I ' L I I I I I 'I I I I I I I I I I I I I l I I I II I I I 4 I I I I II I I I I I I I I I 'I I ' P I I I I I I - '-I I I 'i-- I I I II l I II I I ll' ' I I Ql I responsible Parties for coordinating with other coordination bodies established by the ARTIcLE VI Areas of Cooperative Activity The Parties shall facilitate Cooperative Activity in broad areas related to protection of Critical Infrastructure and homeland civil security Areas of Cooperative Activity include but are not limited to development and implementation of threat and vulnerability assessments interdependency analyses and methodologies related to potential threats to Critical Infrasmicture systems and other homeland civil security scenarios 1 assessment of prior operational experiences and evaluation for the purposes articulating operational deficiencies into definable technical requirements and appropriate standards and supporting methodologies 2 of integration of existing technologies for use in surveillance and detection in support of permissible homeland civil security activities or in defense against terrorism and other homeland civil security threats 3 4 and development of technologies or capability gapa and national needs research requirements and systems to meet user testing and evaluation of specific prototype systems for homeland civil security applications in both laboratory environments and real or simulated operational settings This includes technologies associated with enhanced detection and monitoring of potential terrorist activities and those associated with recovery and reconstitution of damaged or compromised systems 5 preparation of detailed final test reports to allow either Party or their Participants to evaluate follow-on efforts individually or to allow the transition of successful prototypes into operational deployments 6 system protection including protection of automated in asttucture control systems and information assurance including protecting the integrity of data and information in control systems 7 reciprocal education training and exchange of scientific and technical personnel and exchange of Equipment and Materia in science and technology areas including research development testing and evaluation and 8 9 development and exchange 'of best practices standards and guidelines