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DARPA has picked AeroVironment as the prime contractor to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV designed to operate from small ships. The $2.3 million contract...

The AMDS program is developing a prototype UGV-based mine-detection sensor suite that can find buried anti-personnel mines. The AMDS consists of a suite of...

The U.S. confirmed today what Israeli sources have already reported: Syria is hiding parts of its chemical weapon caches. IHLS has published an article a...

By Sarah Teich, ICT This study analyzed current trends and developments in lone wolf terrorism. Starting with a literature review, this paper analyzed the dataset...

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan last week led a large Nigerian delegation to an official visit in Israel to discuss cooperation in fighting terrorism. “There...

Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) presents a full range of assault rifles, carbines, and pistols for defense forces. X95 (Micro Tavor) The X95 (Micro Tavor) can be...

We tend to forget that underneath their sleek hulls, UAVs and other unmanned systems are complex machines which depend on their individual components. The...

Bomb-makers and chemists with Breaking Bad crystal-meth type labs better watch out. A sewer system full of chemical sensors could sniff out their homemade...

$649,000 is the average cost incurred by large companies in the wake of a cyber-attack, according to the 2013 Global Corporate IT Security Risks...

NATO and Russia are cooperating on a system that will identify terrorist bombers targeting big commuter hubs or sports venues. NATO said in a video...

The Internal Security Ministry, also in charge of weapon permits, has made several confusing decisions on the matter – some of whom seem outright...

After airports, it is the turn of the global mass transport market to beef up security, as governments begin to address the security risks...

The MQ-8C Fire Scout — an unmanned helicopter that’s larger and faster than the MQ-8B already in use by the Navy — made its...

Israel Israel counters a Chinese cyber attack Israeli Channel 2 TV News reported last Sunday Israel's counter-cyber terrorism unit managed to thwart a concerted cyber-attack and...

The surprising decision made earlier this year to reverse the ban on knives on U.S. flights had even the most junior Israeli security experts...

The U.N. General Assembly agreed to set up an International Asteroid Warning Group that will compile and share information about potentially dangerous space rocks....

A malfunction in a Skylark UAV, used by IDF artillery and infantry units, crashed in Gaza. The Skylark, manufactured by Elbit Systems, weighs about 15...

How can security forces deal with the astronomic amounts of video data collected by all sorts of different sensors? Over the past decade, technological...

What does the decision to stop IDF patrols in the towns next to the Gaza border have in common with the insultingly low salaries...

Killer unmanned air systems (UAS) are accurate most of the time. The Pakistani government said that 3 per cent of the people killed in...

A new hand-held chemical identifier for analyzing suspected explosives, toxic industrial chemicals and narcotics was introduced Tuesday by Smiths Detection. According to the New Scientist,...

The Swedish software company Imint and the Israeli Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) provider Elbit Systems have field-tested new first response software in live flights...