The Iranian Scare: UAE Acquires U.S. Missile Defense Systems
While both the U.S and Europe still appear to be under the illusion that Iran will stop its nuclear program Muslim countries in the...
Looking to Optimize Airport Security Checks
London’s Luton airport is introducing a new technology to help cut down delays during security checks. The new cloud-based planning platform will help staff...
New Approach to Drone Technology
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is partnering with the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office to create a new organization dedicated to advancing drone technology....
Radical Change in Cybersecurity Strategy
The US NSA wants to make cybersecurity more profitable than cyber attacks. Neal Ziring, the NSA’s Capabilities Directorate technical director said recently: “I want...
Turkey Turns to Russia for Missile Defense Systems
Turkey prefers Russia as its defense missile systems supplier. Turkey has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to acquire Russia’s most advanced missile defense system,...
Unmanned Re-Fuelling Abilities
The UAV industry is finding all kinds of new applications and ventures that can use the devices’ unique abilities. The US Army Aviation and...
Unmanned aircraft used to survey Hawaii wildlife
The first of two scheduled deployments of unmanned aircraft systems over the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands showed they can be used to conduct research without...
Nanotechnology to Help Airport Security Process
Public health has become an important consideration when talking about airports, including security checks. How clean are airport security trays? Everything goes in those...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or recipe for failure? Part 2
The first part in this series on multiple intelligence agencies in the US listed 17 different bodies and cited their huge, cumulative, annual budget...
Gunshot Sensor Contributes to More Immediate Injured Evacuation
A considerable percentage of the gunshot attacks carried out in the US are not reported to the authorities, and when they are reported -...
Iran unveils latest home-made drone, Ababil 3
Iran has unveiled its latest domestically-manufactured state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can be used in reconnaissance operations.
The Ababil 3 has a flight endurance...
ISIS – Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
This study examines the nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an...
The U.S public want more budgets for National Security
Americans want more budgets for homeland security.
The Aerospace Industries Association released data from a study conducted on their behalf by Harris Poll. The results...
New Information-Sharing App For Police Dep.
Municipal police departments in Bradford County, Pa., have decided to start using a new computerized system that will allow the different departments in the...
Mexico To Trump: Mexico Will Not Pay For Border Wall
The Mexican government has made its first public response to Donald Trump’s assertions that he would not only build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico...
Lessons from the Iron Dome
By Yiftah S. Shapir
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Israel has been under rocket attack for many years. Particularly memorable are the shelling of Galilee panhandle...
New Helicopter Family Takes Aviation World by Storm
The US Marine Corps’ portion of the future vertical lift program, a plan to develop a family of five military helicopters for the United...
Mozambique Considers Domestic Production of UAS
Unmanned aircraft could be assembled in Mozambique, under collaboration between the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Engineering Faculty of the...
Cellphone Tracking Technology Causes Political Stir
According to a recent committee report by the US House of Representatives, clearer guidelines are needed for law enforcement's use of secretive and intrusive...
Training people to fight terrorism – a new U.S. initiative
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a Friday speech to the Global Counterterrorism Ministerial Forum, unveiled a new U.S. initiative to address the root...
Remote Door Breaching – for Use of the Special Units
Door breaching devices are one of the tools used by SWAT teams and other security forces in counter-terrorism and police operations.
India’s security personnel fighting...
Using Drones to Test Spacecraft Re-Entering Air Space
A new development in the aerial technology industry is trying to create a drone that will be released from a high-altitude balloon carrying a...
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This Space Radar Can See Through Clouds, Darkness, and Bad Weather
Optical satellites provide valuable imagery from orbit, but they have a well-known limitation: they depend on visibility. Clouds, storms, smoke, darkness, and atmospheric conditions...
