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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...
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...
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...
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...
NSA Says intelligence on the Islamic state could have been ‘stronger’
The nation’s top spies, including the head of the CIA, the NSA, the Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency took the stage...
North Korea cyber warfare capabilities exposed – Part 1 of 2
A new HP report suggests the reclusive country's cyber warfare capabilities are rapidly making North Korea a credible threat to Western systems.
Warfare capabilities are...
New York City to boost security ahead of Jewish New Year
New York City Police stepped up surveillance of Wall Street, Times Square, subways and rail stations before the start of the Jewish New Year as terrorists...
Boeing-Danish cooperation on UAV development project
Boeing is exploring the possibility of assisting Sky-Watch on Danish Unmanned Aerial Vehicle development project.
Boeing and Danish company Sky-Watch recently signed an agreement that...
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This Missile Is Designed to Stay Low, Stay Hidden, and Strike...
Modern armed forces are increasingly looking for strike weapons that can engage targets from long distances without exposing launch platforms to enemy air defenses....
