An iHLS Startup: Pocket-Sized Drone to Operate in Dangerous Indoor Environments
Following large fires, hurricanes or earthquakes, first responder teams in disaster areas sometimes have to refrain from entering unstable structures, due to the danger...
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...
Anti-Terror Move – Encouraging Civilian Self-Defence
The Czech Interior Ministry wants to push through a constitutional amendment which will enable citizens to hold firearms licenses and to use their weapons...
Now You Can’t Miss Emergency Alerts
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Continuity Programs’ Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Division (IPAWS) has begun...
Magen David Adom’s New Mobile Command Center
Magen David Adom (MDA), an Israeli emergency medical service, added a new, advanced mobile command center to its fleet of rescue vehicles. The new...
First iHLS Startups Accelerator Company Raises Funds
First capital raise by a company participating in the iHLS Startups Accelerator.
The Israeli startup company IMNA Solutions of entrepreneur Israel Haikin completed a...
Report: US Lacks Strategy To Prevent Citizens From Traveling To Syria,...
The House Homeland Security Committee’s bipartisan Foreign Fighter Task Force released its final report stating that Washington lacks a strategy to prevent Americans from...
Video Analytics – Innovative Technology with Civilian and Security Uses
Video analytics is a technology that is used to identify, record, and analyze video streams via electronic media. Intelligent video analytics (IVA) helps end-users...
A new tool for spotting buried victims
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion...
Video Analytics To Answer Security Issues Throughout The World
Sometimes all you need to decrease the various security gaps countries of the world are facing is just a little more technology and artificial intelligence....
Cleaning Up Subway After Biological Attack
Subway systems are complex with many moving parts and miles of tunnels. A new project focuses on cleaning up a subway system after the...
The Israeli MDA Presents its New Command and Emergency Vehicles
The latest MDA (Magen David Adom, Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross) command vehicle was based on a Dutch truck chassis, built in England...
iHLS to Raise $20 Million for a Homeland Security Fund
iHLS is on the process of founding a unique fund which will make investments in start-ups at the security technology and homeland security sector....
Can we get ready to counter threats from space?
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Can a country be ready for threats from space? this issue has been brought up following the "close" passage of an asteroid...
NASA, Homeland Security Test Disaster Recovery Tool
NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind portable radar device to detect the heartbeats and breathing patterns of...
Protect your website against cyber attacks
by Lior Mazor
Introduction
Cyber war is an act of war, adopted by states as well as by Terrorist Organizations, with the goal to penetrate and damage the opponents computerized systems or other vital systems that...
Flying Drones Beyond Line of Sight?
A new network will allow pilots of drones to fly farther distances, even outside their line of sight, which is currently against FAA rules....
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...
Solutions to Cyber Hacking Risks at the Automotive Sector
Hacking has become one of the auto industry's biggest concerns, especially as modern cars add more electronic controls and infotainment systems. Last March, the...
Northern Virginia Community College is offering a new degree focusing on...
Northern Virginia Community College is offering a new associate degree that focuses on homeland security. The new Homeland Security Specialization degree falls under NOVA’s...
HLS Report: ISIS-Inspired Plots Increasing, Attacks More Deadly
The self proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) has been tied to at least 75 terrorism plots against Western countries, with the United States as the...
The Right Tool for the Right job – Fending off Cyber...
Ever since the dawn of man, survival was a shaping factor in the evolution of man and society. Truth to be told, 10,000 years...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
