David’s Sling – operational by 2015
The "David Sling" interceptor will be operational in 2015. This fact was exposed this morning in the opening of the "Aerial threats" conference organized...
Did Terrorists Test Airplane Security?
A memo written by the U.S. Airways Pilot Association described a possible "dry-run" for a future terrorist attack that occurred on Flight 1880 on...
New Helicopter Family Takes Aviation World by Storm
The US Marine Corps’ portion of the future vertical lift program, a plan to develop a family of five military helicopters for the United...
Pentagon Orders Hundreds of Small Reconnaissance Robots
FirstLook is engineered with visible cameras, long-wave infrared sensors and thermal cameras – all designed to gather and beam back images and video of...
Big Data Conference: LAPD Deputy Chief on Israeli Tech
An iHLS exclusive: LAPD Deputy Chief - “Israel has tech that can be useful for us.”
Jose Perez, Deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Police...
Gun Ownership in the USA – New Findings
Americans own an estimated 265 million guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to a new survey portraying US gun ownership...
New Cyber-Security Approach
The American Department of Defense (DoD) is making changes to the tools that provide endpoint security to its network. A news release stated that...
Jordan is Israel’s Only Defensible Eastern Border
By Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan
Israel has a natural right to, and an internationally recognized need for, defensible borders. The Jordan Valley is the...
UK Seeks Emergency Communications Contract
The United Kingdom’s Emergency Services Mobile Communications Program (ESMCP) will replace the communication service currently delivered by Airwave, which was criticized following the July...
Offshore Security Conference Special Report: Border Protection
Over 800 visitors participated in Israel's Offshore and Perimeter Security Conference.
Ben Gurion Airport's defense systems include various protective measures: A perimeter fence around the...
Are Critical Infrastructures Vulnerable to Cyberattacks?
Recent Russian cyber attacks against US targets have raised the concern of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A critical infrastructure may be...
Combined Weapons Packages – A Good Export Selling Point
By Arie Egozi
Armed forces around the world are looking more and more for weapons "packages" that will provide them with combined capabilities.
This demand allows...
Video-Accurate intelligence and guided weapons in the Gaza operation
Accurate intelligence and guided weapon systems enable the Israeli air force (IAF) to keep hitting storage places of rockets in Gaza and houses of...
Survey: 89% of Citizens Would agree to Share their Biometric Details
Survey: 89% of Citizens Would agree to Share their Biometric Details for Overseas Travel
While Israel has a broad coalition against the biometric database, world...
US stepping up counter ISIS efforts
Beyond Airstrikes, how can the US accelerate the Islamic State’s defeat?
There is broad agreement among policy makers and defense analysts in Washington, that U.S. airstrikes alone are insufficient...
Robot Interoperability – The Name of The Game
The U.S. Army launches several competitions to define its future robot unmanned ground systems fleet, in a move that may transform the ground robotics...
U.S: Terror financiers operate freely in Qatar
Qatar’s massive financial support of the most extreme Jihadist movements in the Middle East and North Africa is not exactly a secret – notwithstanding...
Unmanned underwater vehicle provides 3-D images of Antarctic sea ice
A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully tested an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can produce high-resolution, three-dimensional maps of Antarctic sea...
Academy, Industry debate future USVs and UUVs propulsion systems
A serious issue experts from both academia and industry are discussion, is the power supply of unmanned marine vessels. Electric engines seem to be...
New Approach to Drone Technology
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is partnering with the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office to create a new organization dedicated to advancing drone technology....
U.S Senate: Sophisticated cyberattack tools available underground to anyone
Several federal law enforcement and computer security officials told a Senate panel that increasingly sophisticated malware and other tools designed to infiltrate information systems...
Unmanned Missile Defense Platform Sought
An unmanned air system (UAS) is sought by the US as a missile defense platform, with the payload and range capability of today’s manned...
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This 3D-Printed Interceptor Could Become a New Layer of Air Defense
The rapid spread of inexpensive drones has created a growing challenge for air-defense systems. Traditional surface-to-air missiles can be effective against unmanned aircraft, but...
