Fast Draw – Israel’s Police
Under normal conditions, it would have been best to appoint a new chief commissioner to head Israel's Police among the organization's top echelon. But...
AeroVironment to supply Raven and Puma spare parts to US Army
AeroVironment has been awarded a series of contracts for the supply of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) spare parts to the US Army. The contracts...
“Firefighters receive more calls in winter than in summer”
Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services are learning the lesson from last year’s major storm.
Fire Commissioner Shahar Ayalon made a surprising revelation that the Israeli...
Economic warfare on US retail chains: hackers target K-Mart – Part...
Part 2
The first part focused on the initial revelations of the cyber attack, the discovery of the malware (malicious software) by K-Mart’s IT-team and...
Fast draw – Gaza
The next war will see IDF soldiers entering tunnels with automatic air condition systems, lounges and cyber-optic based communications systems. How will all this...
Sagem Patroller UAV for French Army Contest
The French company Sagem (Société d’Applications Générales de l’Électricité et de la Mécanique - Company of General Applications of Electricity and Mechanics) has revealed...
How to improve drone strike policy
The initial strikes against the Islamic State in Syria included missiles fired from overhead drones by operators who were hundreds or even thousands of miles away....
New to the army: Hovermast
Hovermast is a new means for providing stabilized real-time aerial surveillance, to forces maneuvering along the battlefield. It is currently being tested and assessed...
Economic warfare on US retail chains: hackers target K-Mart – Part...
Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) announced last Friday (Oct 10) some of K-Mart's outlets (out of at least 1,200 in the US alone), which is a...
Anti-satellite weapons development stepped up
The US and China are developing weapons systems capable of destroying satellites in space. "This kind of weapon is a game changer," says a...
Egozi’s Fury – Turkey
In defense of Turkey's President Erdogan's, it can be said he continues to fool the US with greater and greater audacity. Why? Because he...
Law enforcement agencies use technology to compensate for shrinking budgets
With funding shrinking in many sectors of law enforcement, agencies are searching for new ways to operate affordably while maintaining quality standards. Police departments’...
Instant Eye
Developed by Andover, Massachusetts-based Physical Sciences, the Instant Eye aerial drone is designed to improve situational awareness during disaster response efforts.
The GPS-enabled Unmanned Aerial...
Hackers breached US Army network
Gamers targeting Apache helicopter simulators belonging to the US Army hacked into an Army network.
Federal officials have indicted "Xbox Underground", a group of twenty-something-year-old...
HLS Trainers and simulators
Israel’s Home Front Command is using a trainer and simulator enabling search and rescue forces to train and simulate emergency scenarios, city streets, war...
Does the intelligence community really get Hadoop?
The intelligence community is collecting more data than ever. But does that mean the intelligence gleaned from these massive new stores of data is...
Fighting Ebola using drones
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and the Center of Disease Control both estimate that the death toll due to Ebola might exceed...
New generation bunker-busting bombs
The US is secretly developing a new generation of bunker-busters. The prevailing assessment is that these bombs may be required in the framework of...
“Balance of terror” to replace “nuclear ambiguity”
The fact that Iran is rapidly advancing along the dangerous track of developing its nuclear capability, thereby posing a strategic threat to Israel's existence,...
Safe city: Ramat Hasharon, Israel – and Nanded, India
Two Israeli companies are in charge of Safe City project.
Ramat Hasharon (- northern suburb of Tel Aviv), Israel, has nearly 50 thousand residents. Nanded,...
Could the Ebola virus become a bio-terrorist threat?
Lawmakers and infectious disease experts are examining whether terrorists could use Ebola to deliberately infect and wreak psychological havoc on an unsuspecting population. This...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or recipe for failure? Part 3
The first part of this series listed the federal and military intelligence organizations and their respective roles. The second part focused on the drawbacks of...
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