Geo-politics

Geo-politics

ship-to-ground guided missiles

South Korea has completed the development phase of new tactical ship-to-ground guided missiles which would enhance its ability to strike North Korea's key military...
fingerprint

A new approach for a secure storage of fingerprint data is under development. Today it is becoming more and more common to use biometric...
assault rifle

The development process of the new Kalashnikov assault rifles models has been progressing. Russia's Kalashnikov Concern plans to conclude field tests of its fifth-generation...
defense capabilities

South Korea has been upgrading its defense capabilities in several fields. Seoul is reserving $218 million from its revised mid-term defense plan on cybersecurity...
special forces

More than a year after the U.S. Department of Defense repealed a longtime ban on women serving in ground combat assignments, relatively few have...
Vertical Take-off and Landing

Aurora’s XV-24A LightningStrike Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) XPlane subscale vehicle demonstrator (SVD) aircraft has recently completed its planned flight test program at the...
chemical warfare agent

A DARPA program, developing a system for on-site neutralization of bulk stores of chemical warfare agents (CWA), has successfully demonstrated a waterless soil-scrubbing technology...
energy monitor

A pilot program launched by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) in late 2015 is beginning to bear fruit.  ONR and the Massachusetts...
anti-drone

Anti-drone surveillance systems will protect sensitive Swiss government infrastructure. Rheinmetall AG has won two important orders for protecting the central prison in Lenzburg and...
new technologies

A new augmented reality helmet will be among the new technologies tested at the forthcoming US Navy Trident Warrior exercise, where US sailors are...
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...
supply drone

A promising supply drone is under development. Essentially an unmanned cargo container, the drone is one of a number of related projects the Marine...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

A new autonomous underwater vehicle under development with the assistance of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will help the coast guard with...
robot

Boston Dynamics has officially unveiled its latest robot after footage leaked earlier in February showing the new design. Known as "Handle" the new research...
Radar Warning Receiver

A Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) was successfully demonstrated on a Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 UAV. The results were recently announced by Predator’s manufacturer,...
sensor coating

A new method of creating flexible, printable electronics that combine sensors and processing circuitry was developed by MIT researchers. The work was supported by...
uav

The Iranian tactical unmanned aerial vehicle Mohajer-6 was showcased recently. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the Mohajer-6 UAV and the domestic training jet Kosar,...
manned/unmanned teaming

A successful demonstration of manned/unmanned teaming to improve combat efficiency and effectiveness for the warfighter was conducted by Lockheed Martin’s experimental engineering department, Skunk...
commercialization

The commercialization of new technologies or products requires experience and expertise. The US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) is now...
UAV

The US Navy has modified the concept development contracts of the four aerospace companies competing to build the service’s MQ-25A Stingray aerial refueling UAV...
data fusion

The large amount of data streamed from a wide variety of sensors has been a challenge to the data fusion research community.  Weapons developers...
situational awareness

  A new security system which brings together up-to-the-minute information on key security developments in Iraq and the implications for companies operating in the region...

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