Turkey Strengthens Military Ties with Asia
Turkey continues to desert the west as its main supplier of defense systems and goes to Asia instead. Turkey and Japan are discussing a...
US Navy is testing Fortis exoskeletons
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A US defense contractor has provided the US Navy with two Fortis exoskeletons.
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) has ordered a pair of...
New Artillery Warhead for Fight Against ISIS
A new artillery warhead is retiring an outdated cluster-bomb round on the battlefields for U.S. Army Central in the Middle East and Southwestern Asia....
Israeli and American Companies Team Up to Provide CBRN Filtration
Beth El Industries and DRS Technologies have entered into a teaming agreement to support the U.S. market for CBRN filtration. Beth El will be...
Iris and Fingerprint Scanning are Replacing Airport Security Procedures
Biometric scanning technologies are becoming more and more widespread in airports, stadiums etc., turning check-in procedures more efficient and quick.
Iris and fingerprints scans will...
Steak Knives from JFK Restaurants inside the “Sterile Area”
According to a report in Newsday, passengers in JFK airport in New York can take steak knives with 5-inch serrated steel blades from two...
“Dirty Bomb” Threat on Vessel Investigated – What is the Significance?
The Port of Charleston, South Carolina, has been evacuated early June 15th as US federal authorities investigate a reported threat on a container ship...
New Simulator for Better Decision Making in the Use of Force
Helping law-enforcement officers make better decisions when deciding when to use force has become increasingly important in light of the public debate on the...
US Navy’s Cyber and IT Strategy Revealed
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) rolled out its 2017 strategy. Emphasizing high technology and IT delivery, cyber operations, and optimization of...
Cell Phones in Israeli Prisons – Useless for Terrorists
The Israeli prison service decided to install cell phone jammers in two prisons that are used for holding Palestinian terrorists.
Sources said today that this...
DARPA Uses Biology for Defense Purposes
Although the U.S. military has already deployed the power of biology and nature before, e.g. the Navy trains dolphins to detect underwater mines, the...
Innovative Technology for UAVs Landing in Urban Environments
Deep reinforcement learning (an aspect of machine learning) was used to generate new development enabling the landing of a fixed wing UAV in urban...
Jewish Communities at Risk in Wake of Recent Paris Attacks
US Department of Homeland Security officials advised Jewish communities to initiate or review security maintenance in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in...
Islamist plot to blow up Eiffel Tower, Louvre and nuclear power...
An Islamist plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and a nuclear power plant has been foiled according to French police.
Officers stumbled...
Lockheed Martin wants to work with Israeli companies on its advanced...
Lockheed Martin is among the participants at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
Lockheed Martin's open architecture command and control...
Hackers affiliated with ISIS attacked CENTCOM websites
On January 12, 2015, CENTCOM’s (US Central Command) official Twitter and Facebook pages were attacked by hackers affiliated with ISIS, as part of the...
Romania Approves Drone Operations in National Airspace
Romanian authorities recently adopted a law that allows unmanned aerial vehicles, UAS, to operate in the national airspace.
The use of UASs in a military...
ISIS Poses “Credible Threat” To Rio Olympics
ISIS poses a “credible threat” to the Rio Olympics, admitted Brazil’s Counterterrorism Director Luiz Alberto Sallaberry, but numerous measures are being taken to prevent...
Can Hackers Leave Us Cold This Winter?
If a hacker is capable of breaking in to our computer systems, with a little more effort surely they could disrupt larger targets as...
ISIS Solution To Financial Woes? Selling Chickens
In another sign that ISIS is not only losing ground, but losing the ability to finance its operations, the terror organisation’s Libyan offshoot has...
IAI and Elbit Will Supply Targeting and Surveillance Pods to an...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems have signed a $200 million contract with a customer in Asia. Under the new contract, the two...
World leaders are behind in seeing the ISIS danger
The international press is many steps ahead of the west in understanding the danger posed by ISIS. News of a "laptop of terror" belonging...
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No GPS? This Quantum Sensor Navigates by Reading the Earth
Modern ships depend heavily on satellite navigation, creating a vulnerability when GPS and other GNSS signals are jammed, spoofed or unavailable. In a contested...
