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SIBAT, the International Defense Cooperation Division of the Israel Ministry of Defense, is promoting defense cooperation between Brazilian and Israeli companies. "We are excited to...

Lockheed Martin is among the participants at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014 Lockheed Martin's open architecture command and control...

The inspection of road tunnels is operated regularly in order to detect anomalies. Drones may now replace inspection teams in this demanding task. The...

US Department of Homeland Security officials advised Jewish communities to initiate or review security maintenance in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in...

Israeli companies are trying to develop systems that will improve the security of schools in the United States against shooters. In the meantime, teachers...

A new precision guided glide weapon against static and moving targets has been successfully tested. Textron Systems Weapon and Sensor Systems, a business of...

SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, announced that a few of it's member banks have been attacked by hackers. SWIFT pressured them to comply...

On January 12, 2015, CENTCOM’s (US Central Command) official Twitter and Facebook pages were attacked by hackers affiliated with ISIS, as part of the...

Romanian authorities recently adopted a law that allows unmanned aerial vehicles, UAS, to operate in the national airspace. The use of UASs in a military...

Hundreds of drones are expected to hit the Singapore skies in the near future, but many questions how they will safely fly over dense...

An Islamist plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and a nuclear power plant has been foiled according to French police. Officers stumbled...

Deep reinforcement learning (an aspect of machine learning) was used to generate new development enabling the landing of a fixed wing UAV in urban...

  Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems have signed a $200 million contract with a customer in Asia. Under the new contract, the two...

China’s is making a big effort to make its domestically developed global navigation satellite system Beidou  by 2018. “The system’s completion will help nurture a...

The Czech company Primoco UAV SE is coming out with a new UAV: One 150. The main difference from the One 100 is a...

The bombs used to attack the Boston Marathon appear to have been homemade improvised explosive devices (IEDs) made with components easily available in chain...

Airborne search and rescue missions undertaken by military and civilian helicopter aircrews are dangerous and demanding operations, usually conducted at night or in bad...

Smart city and safe city technology beta projects and pilot programs are gaining ground in New York City, from free public Wi-Fi to smart...

If a hacker is capable of breaking in to our computer systems, with a little more effort surely they could disrupt larger targets as...

Last month, some of the world’s foremost experts on cybersecurity gathered in Lille, France for the International Forum on Cybersecurity, as well as politicians,...

The international press is many steps ahead of the west in understanding the danger posed by ISIS. News of a "laptop of terror" belonging...

By Stephen J. Cimbala INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program . Introduction During the Cold War, and especially in the 1980s, there were some serious efforts...