Fluid Threats Indeed?
It's been eight years since police foiled a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives onboard airplanes headed from the United Kingdom to the United...
UAV health monitoring
The unmanned air systems (UAS) operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) have been strained to their limits during the month of fighting in...
Homeland Security dep. steps up screening of aviation employees
Allegations of gun-smuggling by airline employees last year, have brought the Department of Homeland Security to tighten screening requirements for airport and airline employees...
Bet you haven’t heard of them
Growing threats to Israel from both neighboring countries and those further off, have brought the IAF to enhance and strengthen its electronic warfare capabilities....
Great interest in the Israeli system against shoulder missiles
The growing number of shoulder launched missiles in the hand of terror groups has its effect The system, designated to protect large jet aircraft against...
Surveillance cameras in passenger planes?
Discussions in the aftermath of the Germanwings plane crash have raised the demand that surveillance cameras would be put in the cockpit, as an...
Turn off those Flashing Lights
Hacking Poses Real Danger to Aircrafts, warns expert.
Flaws in in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems and satellite communications leave commercial, private, and military planes vulnerable to...
UAS legislation in Europe
European Drone Regulations is about to get more permissive
Operating UAS (unmanned aerial systems) in the European Union (EU) is going to become very permissive,...
Real Time Embedded Systems: The Fine Line between Success and Failure
Itec is one of the participants in the upcoming IAMD conference on March 31
By the time you are reading this, it has already surfaced...
Airships: the future solution for commercial aviation?
A recent forecast shows that by 2020 the annual number of aircraft passengers will reach 400 million. Air freight traffic is also expected to...
Effective decision support systems (DSS) ensure high real time
Omnisys is one of the participants in the upcoming IAMD conference on March 31
Recent decades have seen a dramatic expansion of computer infrastructure, including...
The Side Benefits of U.S. Visitor Surveillance System
US Visitor Surveillance System used for Emotional Healing
Ostensibly, the motivation behind storing the fingerprints of almost all foreign visitors to the US is in...
“Unidentified passenger aircraft approaching the shoreline”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is getting ready to handle terror acts involving civilian aircraft. Aerial terrorism is always on the agenda and demands...
International cyber terror: Lizard Squad strikes back
The hacking group known as Lizard Squad has been making quite a nuisance of itself, associating the hackers with two high profile events. Lizrad...
The danger of Cyber attack on civil aviation is sky high
The aviation industry is slow in responding to the threat posed by cyber criminality. This, whether it is posed by criminals, terrorists, nation states,...
Air Traffic Control System Vulnerable to Cyberattack
The country’s air traffic control systems are vulnerable to hackers. This, according to a 42-page document entitled "Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses...
Much ado about the FAA’s UAS regulation
The FAA's proposed drone legislation: the return of the nanny-state
After months of waiting, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) finally issued its official draft proposal...
TEMPAERIS demonstrates UAV integration
The TEMPAERIS consortium has demonstrated the capability to integrate a remote controlled aircraft in to civilian air traffic.
This evaluation was performed around Bordeaux-Merignac airport,...
FAA proposes new UAS regulation
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a framework of regulations allowing routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...
Loaded weapons in U.S. airports
Passengers in the U.S are trying to fly well armed.
In 2014, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it seized 2,212 firearms in carry-on bags...
Pressure to revive uniform air-passenger information legislation in Europe
The European Parliament is considering reviving draft legislation which would force airline companies to give EU member governments a cohesive and uniform set of...
South African UAV regulations almost ready
South Africa wants to use more unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and is preparing the needed regulations.
South Africa is set to have its new UAV...
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