Strategic Horizons Unit
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The Strategic Horizons Unit is based in the Cabinet Office. It appears to be part of the Joint Intelligence Organisation.[1][2] It was established
- in accordance with the Prime Minister's written ministerial statement of 22 July 2008 on the National Security Strategy:
- "Alongside (the National Security Secretariat) a horizon scanning unit will be established which will co-ordinate the security-related horizon scanning currently undertaken in a number of Government Departments, with the intention of giving it an overarching framework and a more coherent output."'[3]
The unit began operations on 23 September 2008. According to Tessa Jowell in a Written Answer 'Four full-time equivalent staff work in the Cabinet Office's strategic horizons unit, and the unit is in the process of hiring one further member of staff. The functions of the vacant post are currently being performed by a member of the Intelligence Corps (Volunteers). There is no other Cabinet Office division for which horizon scanning is its main mission.'[4]
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Background
The Unit appears to have been set up with input from the DIUS Forsesight programme:
- The Horizon Scanning Centre has worked with departments across a wide range of issues, for example on International Futures scenarios (for DFID, MOD, BERR, FCO and HMT), on UK Futures 2030 to inform DIUS's own strategy, and to help update the National Security Strategy. It has updated its horizon scans, and plans soon to publish a report on its engagement work on the wider implications of science and technology. It has helped establish a new Strategic Horizons Unit within the Cabinet Office, to address national security issues.[5]
People
Lynette Nusbacher Head of the Strategic Horizons Unit at The Cabinet Office[6] | Philip Bower, Deputy Head of the Strategic Horizons Unit, Cabinet Office, UK[7] |Dr Kristian Gustafson of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies has 'conducted consultancy and advisory work'[8]
Related
Notes
- ↑ NIRCM Publications, accessed 25 February 2010
- ↑ Lynette Nusbacher is listed as Head, Strategic Horizons Unit, Joint Intelligence Organisation, Cabinet Office, UK in Eden Intelligence ITI 2009 – Washington DC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND INTELLIGENCE, accessed 6 March 2010
- ↑ Francis Maude to Tessa Jowell Strategic Horizons Unit: Manpower Cabinet Office Written answers and statements, 26 June 2009
- ↑ Francis Maude to Tessa Jowell Strategic Horizons Unit: Manpower Cabinet Office Written answers and statements, 26 June 2009
- ↑ DIUS Supplementary submission from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills: SCIENTIFIC ADVICE, RISK AND EVIDENCE BASED POLICY MAKING, Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy - Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee, Memorandum 86, February 2009, accessed 6 March 2010
- ↑ Linked In Lynette Nusbacher, accessed 25 February 2010
- ↑ Circa October 2009: CASIS / ACERS 2009 CASIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Terrorism, Cyberspies and a New ‘Cold’ War: Emerging Challenges for Security and Intelligence October 29-31, 2009 Crowne Plaza Hotel Ottawa, Canada
- ↑ Brunel University Kristian Gustafson, accessed 6 March 2010
