The European Defence Agency and EU military space policy: Whose space odyssey?

European Civil Security Governance

“…This work is today included in the Capability Development Plans (CDP) aimed at monitoring progress and endorsed by the EU governments on a regular basis. The CDP is developed by the European Defence Agency (EDA) 4 led by a Steering Board of 27 Defence Ministers (meeting around six times per year), 5 the EU Military Committee and the EU Council General Secretariat in a process headed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (Oikonomou, 2012).…”

“…The goal has been to make the member states' capacities converge for more efficient EU cooperation despite the great difficulties of predicting future needs and setting precise political and capacity objectives. This method of coordination has resulted in the creation of EU visions on long-term needs, EU earmarked national military resources and standing joint military capacities as well as a peer pressure induced convergence of national norms in the defence field (Andersson, 2006;Oikonomou, 2012;Cross, 2014;Ekengren, 2015). The method has been very similar to the so-called 'open method of coordination' -a method also called experimentalist governance, used in many other areas of EU cooperation such as employment and environmental cooperation (Sabel and Zeitlin, 2010).…”

Protecting research and technology from espionage

“…Especially the rising asymmetrical threat during the last years forces governments to increase investments in security and defense related research and technology (R&T) (Gericke, Thorleuchter, Weck, Reiländer, & Loß, 2009). The European Union funds security research within the current European Framework Research Program (FP7) and it has founded the European Defense Agency (EDA) that funds defense based research with a wide technological scope among others (Oikonomou, 2012).…”

Technology classification with latent semantic indexing

“…The European Defence Agency (EDA) has been created to help member states of European Union (EU) develop their defence capabilities for crisis-management operations under the "European Security and Defence Policy" (Oikonomou, 2012). One aim of the EDA is to In general they are created by ministries of defence and unfortunately they are very often classified as restricted information but most of these technological collections are based on WEAG taxonomy like described above.…”