Did the DHS Waste $1 Billion on Failed Screening Program?
The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) said recently that DHS may have wasted $1 billion on the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers...
Swedish UAV Used in Anti-Piracy Operation
Saab of Sweden reports its Skeldar unmanned aerial system is being operated from a Spanish navy vessel as part of anti-piracy operations in the...
U.S. Air Force Considers Using Less UAVs
Senior U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials are in the midst of a high-stakes debate about the future of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet...
U.S. Military Aims to Develop Small UAVs with EW Capabilities
Northrop Grumman reports its first integration of an internal, miniature electronic attack payload on a small unmanned aircraft system.
The company's Pandora payload, derived from...
New U.S. Army UAV Contracts
Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by the U.S. Army Rapid...
Turkey Moves to Keep Air Defense Competition Open to U.S., Europe
Turkey continues to juggle with its Western allies. After a stunning decision to select a Chinese contender to build Turkey’s first long-range air and...
New Sensor Payload for Unmanned and Manned Aircraft
Headwall Photonics Inc. in the U.S. is introducing the Micro-Hyperspec integrated airborne hyperspectral electro-optical sensor for manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
According to...
Guaranteeing that an Initial Deal with Iran Does Not Become the...
By Amos Yadlin
The dispute between Israel and the United States on the Iranian nuclear challenge emerged this week from behind closed doors and became...
U.S. Navy to Upgrade Fleet of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
U.S. Navy officials have asked Hydroid Inc. to repair and upgrade the Navy's fleet of MK 18 Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), as well...
Smart Cloud Service Receives U.S. Government Authorization
IBM’s SmartCloud for Government, infrastructure as-a-service cloud platform, has been granted Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program...
U.S. Company Launches New High-Capacity Robotic Arm
CoroWare Technologies has announced availability for the CoroBot RA-144 robotic arm, a powerful robot arm that complements their CoroBot smart unmanned ground vehicle (Smart...
9900: The Israeli Satellite Intelligence Unit
The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...
Does Israel Have Veto Power Over An Agreement With Iran?
By Zaki Shalom
On November 8, shortly before meeting U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it clear that Israel totally opposed...
New U.S. Awards to Robotics Researchers
Robotic rotorcraft for inspecting bridges and other infrastructures, tools for minimally invasive surgery that guide surgeons by creating 3D maps of internal organs, and...
Stuxnet Virus Detected in Russian Nuclear Facility
Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Antivirus has revealed that a staffer at a Russian nuclear plant informed him that the infection that was introduced to...
U.S. Army to Develop Battlefield Biological Detection System
U.S. Army researchers are preparing to asking industry to design a lightweight, low cost, man-portable, battery-operated system to detect, collect, and identify biological pathogens...
U.S. Army to Develop Soldier-Worn Power-Management Systems
Experts at Protonex Technology Corp. in Southborough, Mass., will develop soldier-worn power-management systems under terms of a $2.2 million contract from the Army Natick...
Homeland Security Testing Facial Recognition Accuracy
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started a program that will test the accuracy of various off-the-shelf facial recognition programs.
Facial recognition has come...
TSA to Test New Checkpoint Detector Systems
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has ordered advanced software and hardware for uncovering liquid explosives and other threats.
The systems, which can be retrofitted into...
Norway to Develop Pocket UAV for U.S. Army
U.S. Army researchers are asking a Norwegian company to develop a pocket-sized helicopter drone to provide a personal reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for...
U.S. Colleges Add Homeland Security to their Curriculum
The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has made “homeland security” a common phrase and...
U.S. Army to Develop Smart Mine Detection System
The AMDS program is developing a prototype UGV-based mine-detection sensor suite that can find buried anti-personnel mines. The AMDS consists of a suite of...
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