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One of the main challenges in keeping borders and perimeter fences secure is the amount of false alarms a sensory perimeter intrusion detection fence...

How to make the world safer? Answers will be given next year in Singapore. Interpol has announced the Interpol World convention, taking place next year...

Intel unveiled a new ready-to-fly drone, Aero, a quadcopter aimed at software developers rather than casual hobbyists or commercial drone operators. Intel’s drone is a...

Articles and issues discussed in this episode: DARPA-sponsored robotics advancements may be used for military purposes U.S. military to deploy more robotic soldiers in the future U.S...

'Safe City' is quickly becoming 'Smart City', especially when the majority of city projects are based less on technology and more on infrastructure such...

Boeing is building a laser cannon for the U.S. Army, and the new weapon has now proved it will be as capable at sea...

New data demonstrates that only a tiny proportion of crime guns in Chicago were ever reported stolen to the Police Department. That and other...

A big boost to FST21 access control system following the recent violent attacks on commercial, civilian and public places. Looking at the recent shooting...

As body cameras get cheaper and the market gets more competitive, the largest supplier of law enforcement body cameras in the U.S., Axon, is...

iHLS is delighted to host for the first time the prestigious Startup Competition for innovative technologies in the security, defense and homeland security fields,...

Terrorist organizations and other hostile bodies, threaten daily hundreds of institutions, organizations and strategic elements in air, sea and land. Half of these strategic sites...

In a significant shift, X (formerly Twitter) has updated its terms of service, eliminating users' ability to opt out of having their content used...

The Swiss Army has ordered a fleet of Indago 3 small UAS from Lockheed Martin. The quadrotor Indago UAS provides aerial reconnaissance in environments...

Wind River, a provider of embedded and mobile software, has developed Wind River Open Virtualization Profile to deliver open-source, real-time kernel virtualization technologies for...

I could have just copied what I wrote earlier, on the mess that is the long-dysfunctional Israeli emergency response authorities. But the magnitude of...

The British Army is interested in gaining more accurate, long-range engagement capabilities against armoured and non-armoured targets.  The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has...

The US Military’s new motorbikes are quiet - deadly quiet. In 2014, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a competition to...

The heavy truck field industry in both the commercial and military sectors is a large consumer of fuel. A new paradigm aims at changing...

Many parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle packages weighing five pounds or less, a restriction that would allow small, standardized...

The FBI and DHS issued a joint intelligence bulletin to law enforcement agencies across the country urging them to remain vigilant, citing a series...

The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns, work and learn from home, supply chain interruptions, and economic contraction/changes in consumer spending have affected the...

UASs mid-air launch and recovery is one of the technologies that interest the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dynetics has been awarded...