What Could be Detected with Bogus Bomb Detectors?
Pakistan continues to use bogus bomb detectors ADE-651 to guard its vital facilities such as airports and government installations despite being officially banned last...
Fast draw – tunnel detection system
It sounds suspicious, doesn't it? Suddenly the IDF is ready to deploy a tunnel detection system along the Gaza border. Suddenly a system that...
U.S. DARPA Develops Advanced Drone Communications
Unmanned systems 2014 – U.S. research agency DARPA is developing an advanced UAV communications system that will enable reliable, continuous and high quality transfer...
New Unconventional Warfare Discovery Methods
The Pentagon is studying gray zone conflict, AKA hybrid warfare, beginning with a focus on Russia and later moving on to study Iran and...
High Maneuverability to Special Forces Vehicle
A variant of a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) showcased at the LAAD exhibition held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in...
ODNI crowsources speech-recognition software
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...
New System Will Improve Injured Officer Safety
First police agency in the US is to use a new technology which many say could be the difference between life and death. The...
New Technology for Offshore Mine Detection
During a recent technology demonstration, a new way to detect buried and submerged mines was unveiled. Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich, a scientist at Naval Surface...
Radio Frequency Identification – Is It Secure?
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have begun appearing everywhere. When one looks carefully, it’s easy to notice them in passports, credit cards, library books, office...
The Bullet-Proof Battery
The search for technologies enabling safer battery use has brought about new developments. American Lithium Energy’s wearable battery was shot with a high-powered military...
First Test Flight For China’s Stealth UAV
Chinese state media is reporting that the Chinese military has completed its first test flight of their stealth drone that looks a lot like...
Nuclear Detection at a Competetive Price
A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program aimed at preventing nuclear threats was successfully demonstrated as part of DARPA’s SIGMA program. SIGMA was...
Singapore will be a safe city
The Government of Singapore has chosen AGT International-O'Connor's to participate in its Safe City project. AGT-O'Connor's, with its consortium partner Hitachi, will implement a...
Obligations of International Humanitarian Law
By Knut Doermann
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
It is an understatement to say that armed conflicts fought in densely populated areas can and...
Hiring: PC’s, Not Humans
According to industry estimates, the US needs about 200,000 more workers to fill current cybersecurity roles. Globally, the gap is five times higher, an...
Canadian police use UAV to find family lost in forest
Earlier this year the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Nova Scotia unveiled a new fleet of vision-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for purposes that include...
DARPA taking inspiration from birds of prey to develop agile UAVs
The U.S Army is looking for inspiration from nature .This because it would like to use small drones a lot more, especially to gather...
Wireless Charging
Have we completely given up on privacy?
When it comes to wireless charging, aka wireless power, the answer is probably ’yes’.
Though they have become indispensable...
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...
Russia Eyeing Its Own Hyperloop
They Hyperloop hasn’t arrived yet, but already some international officials are eyeing up the prize. Elon Musk’s futuristic transport system is promising to revolutionise...
Biodegradable Ammunition for Training Purposes Will Safeguard Environment
The US Army has sought proposals for biodegradable ammunition to be used for training purposes, in order to eliminate environmental hazards.
Currently, the US Army...
First Soft Untethered Robot Developed
A team of Harvard University researchers has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3-D-printed robot — nicknamed the “octobot” —...
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Can AI Spot a Threat Before It Happens?
Modern cybersecurity systems face a scale problem. Networks generate enormous amounts of traffic, and malicious activity may be hidden among millions of ordinary interactions....
