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US military taps advanced technology to save lives.
The U.S. Southern Command’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division showed off GeoSHAPE. This tool would have been...
White House summit to assess domestic terrorism in October
The White House is planning a summit in October to consider domestic extremism. The planned summit will include Muslim faith-based organizations, mental health providers,...
MS-ISAC: Cybersecurity Collaboration is Needed Now More than Ever
As cyber leaders from across federal, state, local and tribal governments prepare to gather for another annual meeting, the future of government cybersecurity in...
Attaining Perfect Intelligence – part 3
Part 3 - Intelligence assessment officers
Intelligence operations generate a great deal of data from human sources and technological means. In this day and age,...
Attaining Perfect Intelligence – part 2
Part II – The intelligence working plan: the beating heart of the intelligence organization
In order to implement the plan ordered by the political leadership...
IMI establishes new HLS directorate
A new directory to be dedicated exclusively to HLS issues has just been launched by IMI (Israel Military Industry). The new dedicated directory is...
High-resolution satellite images show Ebola spread
Ebola is visible from space: you can see its effects. Satellite imagery that provide high-resolution pictures from low Earth orbit give a picture of...
Attaining Perfect Intelligence – part 1
Part I - Mistaken intelligence assessment
In the course of his interview to "60 Minutes" on CBS, President Barack Obama reiterated the NSA (National Security...
iHLS TV – Going global, Amazon’s drone store, new grenade launcher,...
In this weekly report (30 September 2014):
iHLS TV is going global to over 40 million viewers through the Shalom Show
Amazon to launch drone store
New...
Civic Apps: Can They Help Fight Crime?
In 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled the police department’s latest application programming interface called ClearMap, used to handle anything from wanted lists and...
FAA approves UAV use for movie making
The FAA has granted six aerial photo and video operators' permission to use small unmanned aircraft (UAVs) for filming on closed sets through a process the...
Foiling the next mega terrorist attack: technologies convergence in law enforcement...
Can you stop someone from planting a powerful charge at a crowded baseball stadium? Yes, but how? Application is more complex organization-wise, and sometimes...
Blackout? UUV and UAS robots can help
Big disasters almost always result in big power failures. Not only do they take down home appliances, they also wreak havoc with key infrastructure...
Fighting Ebola using Big Data
Current Centers of Disease Control estimates suggest that more than 1.4 million people could be infected with Ebola by January 2015. To limit Ebola’s...
US government launches cyber guerrilla campaign against ISIS
The US government is beginning a campaign to "win the war of ideas by ridiculing the militants with a mixture of blunt language and...
Better regional coordination for port security
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, first responders and emergency teams soon found out that they were ill-equipped to coordinate with one another. That realization...
IRGC: no plans to mass produce downed Israeli drone
A commander in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Iran has no plan to mass produce an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it...
Fast Draw – Abu Mazen’s UN speech
The speech Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) delivered before the UN was a godsend to anyone in Israel with eyes to see. All those bleeding...
Anonymous criticized for declaring ‘full scale cyber war’ against ISIS
An Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account has declared a "full-scale cyber war" against the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis) with the aim of tracking down...
Gun silencers in the U.S – a terror threat
Gun silencers could become more widespread in Florida under new legislation to allow the devices on hunters' weapons on public land. Experts say that...
Could the Weather Company change emergency alerting?
In 2013 alone, The Weather Company delivered more 150,000 weather alerts to two-thirds of U.S. adults, and it now is targeting its reach to...
FirstNet Releases RFI, Budget
Announcements by the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) show progress at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), an independent authority...
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