Press Release: EDA signs first contracts under R&T Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection

The European Defence Agency (EDA), on 14 December 2007, signed the first three contracts under its R&T Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection (JIP-FP). The JIP-FP initiative, dedicated to technologies for protecting deployed armed forces against threats such as snipers, booby traps or improvised bombs, was agreed in 2006 at a ministerial meeting of the EDA Steering Board with a budget totalling 55 million Euros over three years.

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