Attaining Perfect Intelligence – part 3
Part 3 - Intelligence assessment officers
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DARPA seeks a better way to see in the dark
DARPA is looking for the next generation of wearable night vision gear.
The goal is to design night vision gear that is smaller and lighter...
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...
IMI establishes new HLS directorate
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New threats map menacing Israel
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High-resolution satellite images show Ebola spread
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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...
Fast Draw – PM Netanyahu’s speech before the UN
US President Barack Obama admitted this week, that Washington did not accurately assess the degree of danger posed by Islamic State of Iraq and...
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FAA approves UAV use for movie making
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Foiling the next mega terrorist attack: technologies convergence in law enforcement...
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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
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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...
IRGC: no plans to mass produce downed Israeli drone
A commander in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Iran has no plan to mass produce an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it...
Fast Draw – Abu Mazen’s UN speech
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Anonymous criticized for declaring ‘full scale cyber war’ against ISIS
An Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account has declared a "full-scale cyber war" against the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis) with the aim of tracking down...
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.
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