AIR FORCE EFFECTIVITY IN LOW INTENSITY WARFARE
Low intensity combat (LIC) is a misleading name. Urban warfare is also not describing most of the wars fought these days. Under any name,...
The Air Force Of The Future
The US Air Force is gearing up for large technology research, requesting some $2.5 billion for research in its budget for fiscal year 2017....
New Algorithms to Track Violent Groups on Twitter
New sentiment analysis algorithms are able to monitor the social network Twitter in search of violent groups. The system analyses both the messages they...
Report: Hackers Target Israel
Around 400,000 malicious code attacks against Israel in the first quarter of 2014 * Israel ranked 38th in the list of countries responsible for...
Pentagon in Search for New Developments in Robotics
The Pentagon has been assembling a large network of government, private-sector and academic technology experts in an attempt to secure access to critical technologies...
Cyber – One of IAI’s Strategic Fields Gains Momentum
IAI’s cyber activity continues to grow. The company’s 2016 contracts concluded in this field totalled more than $100 million, all of them in the...
DHS Looking to Accelerate Its Technology Commercialization
The commercialization of new technologies or products requires experience and expertise. The US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) is now...
Hurricane images from a UAV direct to your smartphone: the technology...
SDI is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
Until not so long ago, we have...
New Mobile Surveillance System for Border Security
The first ALERT Truck Mobile Surveillance System, a collaborative border surveillance platform has been delivered. A key technology included in the platform designed and...
Submarine Deal About to Materialize
India has been taking an interest in several Israeli systems for equipping its upgraded submarine fleet. The Indian Navy is slated to commission the...
Sensor to Save Lives in Active Shooter Situations
Several cases of mass shooting in public places have occurred in the US in recent years. A small, relatively inexpensive device could make the...
DoD To Stop Using Floppies For Nuclear Operations
The US Department of Defence (DoD) will finally stop using floppy disks for nuclear operations. You, you read that right. One of the most...
UAVs Surveillance System to the Canadian Army
The Canadian government announced it is buying an existing unmanned aerial surveillance system, through a government-to-government contractual arrangement.
The deal handled through the U.S....
New Night Vision LED to Integrate in Automotive Systems
An extremely compact high-power Synios IRED for automotive applications is now offered by Osram Opto Semiconductors.
The new infrared LED reduces the size of...
US Army Picks New Pistol
The U.S. Army recently awarded Sig Sauer a contract worth $580 million to make the next service pistol based on the company's P320 handgun....
Report: Secret Service Blunders Eased White House Intruder’s Way
A succession of “performance, organizational, technical” and other failures by the Secret Service enabled an intruder to climb a fence and enter the White...
Destructive Cyber Attacks on the Rise
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
Rising geopolitical tensions have led to a constant barrage of cyber hacking into the U.S. government, industries and businesses. The recent attack...
US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV completes maiden flight
The US Navy and Northrop Grumman have successfully completed the debut flight of the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter on the navy’s guided-missile destroyer...
Assault Rifle Upgraded for The Benefit of Future Forces
The newest AK-12 assault rifle produced by the Kalashnikov small arms manufacturer for the Ratnik (Warrior) ‘soldier of the future’ infantry combat gear has...
Would Geo-Fencing Tech Stop Terrorist Vehicle Attacks?
Geo-fencing technologies that use the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to define geographical boundaries have various applications. Now they are...
Face Recognition – No Deed Goes Unnamed
Bad news for criminals who are trying to remain hidden, nameless and faceless. A new technology, reported on Fox News’ site, can predict what...
A growing demand for UAS for maritime missions
The Israeli defense contractors which manufacture unmanned air systems (UAS) are responding to the growing demand. As Israel aerospace industries (IAI) and Elbit systems...
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