ICT Bi-weekly Report – Jihadi Forums
By ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group
This report summarizes notable events discussed on jihadist Web forums during the first half of August 2013. The following...
Swedish UAV Used in Anti-Piracy Operation
Saab of Sweden reports its Skeldar unmanned aerial system is being operated from a Spanish navy vessel as part of anti-piracy operations in the...
U.S. Air Force Considers Using Less UAVs
Senior U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials are in the midst of a high-stakes debate about the future of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet...
U.S. Military Aims to Develop Small UAVs with EW Capabilities
Northrop Grumman reports its first integration of an internal, miniature electronic attack payload on a small unmanned aircraft system.
The company's Pandora payload, derived from...
Portable Scanner to Detect Concealed Weapons
Prototype radar scanners that can detect weapons concealed on people in public spaces is set to undergo real-world testing next year. According to the...
New U.S. Army UAV Contracts
Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by the U.S. Army Rapid...
Turkey Moves to Keep Air Defense Competition Open to U.S., Europe
Turkey continues to juggle with its Western allies. After a stunning decision to select a Chinese contender to build Turkey’s first long-range air and...
New Sensor Payload for Unmanned and Manned Aircraft
Headwall Photonics Inc. in the U.S. is introducing the Micro-Hyperspec integrated airborne hyperspectral electro-optical sensor for manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
According to...
Guaranteeing that an Initial Deal with Iran Does Not Become the...
By Amos Yadlin
The dispute between Israel and the United States on the Iranian nuclear challenge emerged this week from behind closed doors and became...
U.S. Navy to Upgrade Fleet of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
U.S. Navy officials have asked Hydroid Inc. to repair and upgrade the Navy's fleet of MK 18 Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), as well...
Smart Cloud Service Receives U.S. Government Authorization
IBM’s SmartCloud for Government, infrastructure as-a-service cloud platform, has been granted Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program...
Hi-Tech Tattoos Could Replace Personal Passwords
Motorola has announced it is looking at alternatives to traditional passwords in the form of tattoos, in a bid to make logging into online...
U.S. Company Launches New High-Capacity Robotic Arm
CoroWare Technologies has announced availability for the CoroBot RA-144 robotic arm, a powerful robot arm that complements their CoroBot smart unmanned ground vehicle (Smart...
Fast Draw: IDF Soldier Murdered in Afula
Someone in the government thinks we're all extremely stupid. “This isn't an intifada, it's just a coincidence, random events”, claim all official spokesmen after...
Fast Draw: Defense Establishment Ignores Chemical Threat
Only the top Israeli defense establishment officials believe that there's no longer a chemical and biological weapons threat.
It looks like in many cases decision...
9900: The Israeli Satellite Intelligence Unit
The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...
Does Israel Have Veto Power Over An Agreement With Iran?
By Zaki Shalom
On November 8, shortly before meeting U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it clear that Israel totally opposed...
New Security Cameras to Detect Violent Motions
A special CCTV camera might know what you are doing, thanks to a monitoring system that can detect aggressive behavior.
According to New Scientist, Kintense,...
New U.S. Awards to Robotics Researchers
Robotic rotorcraft for inspecting bridges and other infrastructures, tools for minimally invasive surgery that guide surgeons by creating 3D maps of internal organs, and...
Stuxnet Virus Detected in Russian Nuclear Facility
Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Antivirus has revealed that a staffer at a Russian nuclear plant informed him that the infection that was introduced to...
U.S. Army to Develop Battlefield Biological Detection System
U.S. Army researchers are preparing to asking industry to design a lightweight, low cost, man-portable, battery-operated system to detect, collect, and identify biological pathogens...
ICT Report: Monthly Terrorist Activities – August 2013
The following is a summary and analysis of the terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations that occurred during August 2013, as researched and recorded by...
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