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Israeli Army Unit 8200 – The Best Tech School On Earth
If you want to make it as a tech entrepreneur, enlist in the Israeli Defense Force and aim for Unit 8200.
Unit 8200 runs Israel's...
Upgraded Patriot missile proves its capabilities
Raytheon's new-production Patriot Air and Missile Defense System successfully launched a PAC-3 missile to engage a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target at the White...
U.S. power plants, utilities face growing cyber vulnerability
American power plants and utility companies face a growing cyber vulnerability. No U.S. power plant has so far suffered a significant cyberattack, but experts...
The African defense and homeland security is boiling
Israeli defense companies are facing a growing competition in the African market for defense and homeland security systems.
According to Defense News, projections indicate that...
Sensors: more powerful than ever
Recently, a number of advances in sensor technology for battlefield/military have found their way into the news.
For example, the US Army Research Lab is...
Cyber and Unmanned Systems – untapped potential
People love using buzzwords, especially combining popular buzzwords from two different fields and disciplines. The connection of unmanned capabilities and Cyber sounds very sexy,...
Israeli companies to offer sense and avoid systems for UAS
The Navy has halted work on what seemed to have been the Pentagon’s most promising system to help drones sense and avoid other aircraft.
According...
Scanners to stop radioactive materials at ports
This is a worldwide problem - how to stop radioactive materials from being smuggled into a country for the purpose of committing acts of...
Chinese Unmanned Helicopter lands in Washington DC
The Chinese company Ewatt Technology is introducing its new SVU-200 VTUAV to the AUVSI show in Washington. It is the first time the unmanned...
US Eyes UAVs for Boost-Phase Missile Targeting
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to continue testing the use of Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles for ballistic missile target discrimination in the...
Stand off – Israel is watching Egypt from afar
In light of the recent developments in the Middle East Israel stepped up its intelligence-gathering efforts, mostly by electronic means, in order to detect...
The U.S. DHS evaluates new micro UAVs
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon be taking new applications for its unmanned aircraft assessment program — a project that gives potential...
IBM Announces Intention to Acquire Trusteer
IBM, the world's biggest technology services company, said on Thursday it has agreed to buy Trusteer, an Israeli company that helps businesses fight computer...
UAS are ideal platforms for EW systems
Israeli companies are manufacturing EW systems fitted to be carried by unmanned air systems (UAS). These create great interest but their export is limited.
The...
Small, smart anti-artillery missile – the changing nature of war
War in the Middle East is changing, one example of this change being the use of the accurate Spike missiles by the IDF against...
A few thoughts on the Israeli situation
By Arie Egozi
The US foreign policy has never looked so ineffective. In fact it doesn't even look like a policy at all, just some...
Leaks foil N.S.A. Plan for Cyberdefense
The leaked information about the operations of the N.S.A. in the U.S. have foiled a huge Cyber defense plan.
Even while rapidly expanding its electronic...
The U.N – more useless than ever
This could be a joke but it isn't. If someone needed any proof that every dollar spent on maintaining the U.N is a waste...
The US Department Of Interior to transition to the cloud
The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) selected Lockheed Martin to transition the agency to the cloud through efficient information technology (IT) service delivery solutions....
New small UAVs offer autonomy and high endurance
Last year the French company Lehmann Aviation launched the LA100, a small and fully autonomous UAS designed to capture aerial images with a user-supplied...
UAV agricultural spinoffs
Advanced Defense Technologies announced that marketing plans are in progress to utilize drone and UAV technology for precision agriculture applications.
According to Market Wired...
The Father of all Bombs
By Ami Dor-On
While the US takes pride in its MOAB (Mother of all Bombs), the largest airborne bomb ever made, it turns out that...
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