This workshop, delivered by EPSRC on behalf of UK Research and Innovation and Counter Terrorism Policing, will bring together experts from academia, industry and national security to discuss the threat from 3D printed firearms.
We will explore current routes of dissemination and deployment of 3D printed firearms, the communities that build them, the technology that underpins their production and relevant mitigation, prevention and system-level intervention.
This initiative will give researchers direct access to national security and law enforcement specialists working at the forefront of this field. This will enable them to shape, inform, and align current and future research with real-world emerging societal and technological challenges.
Who the workshop is for
We invite participation from those with expertise in research areas including, but not limited to:
- materials science
- engineering
- design and manufacturing (including additive manufacturing)
- forensics
- sensing, detection and instrumentation
- cyber-physical systems
- online activity and cybersecurity
- artificial intelligence
- robotics and autonomous systems
- computational modelling
- applied mathematics or mathematical modelling
- criminology
- psychology
- behavioural science
- sociology (group dynamics and power structures)
- transnational security, governance and geopolitics
Topics the workshop will cover
We envisage the workshop will discuss current and future challenges in this space including, but not limited to:
- production and capability of 3D printed firearms
- detection, monitoring and identification of 3D printed firearms
- design proliferation and online ecosystems
- state, non-state and hybrid active threats
- mitigation, prevention and system-level intervention
All participants may be required to share personal information to enable security screening before they can attend this workshop.