New Dual-Use Satellite on Air
A new dual-use telecommunications satellite has entered operations. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) has started operating the defence and strategic communications geostationary satellite (SGCD)....
World’s Smallest Sensor Eliminates Battery Replacement Need
As the spread of IoT systems gains momentum, expectations are rising for sensor devices that support LPWA ( Low Power Wide Area) technology, which...
Towards Full Helicopter Automatization
Airbus Helicopters has gone a step further in the experimentation of its Project EAGLE (Autonomous Guidance and Landing Extension), with the in-flight validation of...
What Is the Role of Today’s CISOs?
When Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs) talk, people listen, as evinced by the monthly Twitter #infosecChat hosted by IBM...
Developments in the Global Oil Market Strategic Significance
Since mid-2014, global oil prices have fallen dramatically. The price of an American WTI barrel of oil was $44 in late January 2015, compared...
Organizational Shift Regarding Cybersecurity
The confirmation of a temporary enables the transfer of cybersecurity responsibility from the hands of the Israeli Security Agency (shin bet) to the National...
Global Jihad attacks worldwide: January 2015
Suicide bombing attack in Turkey
It was recently reported that the police investigation revealed that the attack against the police station in Turkey on January...
בסיס מל”טים אמריקאי חדש באפריקה עבור לוחמה בטרור
מל"טים (UAS) ממלאים תפקיד גובר והולך במלחמה נגד טרור. זאת, על אף הביקורת הטוענת שמל"טים אמריקאיים חמושים מבצעים "סיכולים ממוקדים" רבים נגד טרוריסטים במקום...
A new report – X ray in airport not dangerous
A new report by an independent task force commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has found that people absorb less...
Utilizing Solar Energy to Power Long Endurance UAV Flights
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Vehicle Research Section and Photovoltaic Section have investigated the presence of solar photovoltaics to the cooperative...
Microsoft Admits: Windows 10 Spying Cannot Be Stopped
Windows 10 constantly calls home - a lot. Back in August, Ars Technica reported on a list of features in Microsoft Windows 10 that...
New Counter UAV Concept
A new development at the counter unmanned vehicle arena. The Estonian military expects to demonstrate a prototype of its Shark counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV)...
Better Body Armor Technology
High-performance polymer fibers have been used in ballistics applications for more than forty years. Although effective at stopping or slowing down bullets, users have...
Drone Completes One of Longest Inspection Flights in Its Class
More than $38 billion is spent annually monitoring oil and gas pipelines using less efficient means, which often identify problems only long after they’ve...
US Marines Want Autonomous Robotic Teams
Battle robots are still not a reality, and one of the things holding them back is that they’re not really autonomous. To be truly...
Europe to Share Ballistic Information as Part of Anti-Terror Plan
By ARIE EGOZI
Europe begins to understand that without a common effort the Islamic terror will paralyze countries in the coming years.
After the Europol said...
ICT: Cyber-Terrorism Activities Report No. 7
This report covers two main subjects: Cyber-terrorism (offensive, defensive, and the media, and the main topics of jihadist discourse); and cyber-crime, whenever and wherever...
Invisible Screening Measures to Enhance Airport Security
Aviation industry experts said recently that authorities will incorporate more "invisible" screening measures to step up security in and around airports as they increasingly...
China’s Counterspace Weapons
A report by the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission provides new details of China’s space-weapons programs, dubbed counterspace arms, that are aimed...
Joining Forces Against Terrorist Threat
Various security forces in Europe have been gradually adapting to the new terrorist threat reflected in recent years’ lethal attacks.
Ireland’s military special forces, the...
Drone Delivery Tech Applied in Life Saving Operations
Drone delivery has been expanding to first response in the cardiac emergency setting. Every minute literally counts in increasing the odds of survival for...
Massive Deployment of Face Recognition Systems in Moscow
Moscow has been bringing CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) security to the next level, through a partnership that brings artificial intelligence to bear in ways...
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Your 5G Network Could Soon Double as a Drone Detector
Detecting unauthorized drones around airports, power plants, stadiums and other sensitive locations usually requires dedicated radars, radio-frequency sensors or cameras. Deploying enough of those...
