Gender Equality Reaches Special Forces
More than a year after the U.S. Department of Defense repealed a longtime ban on women serving in ground combat assignments, relatively few have...
UAV and UGV Teaming – an Advantage in Battlefield
Operating as a team, an autonomous vehicle with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying overhead as surveillance could go deep into complex and unfamiliar...
Looking to Optimize Airport Security Checks
London’s Luton airport is introducing a new technology to help cut down delays during security checks. The new cloud-based planning platform will help staff...
Smart Airport Security System Helped Detect ISIS Suspects
The Senegalese authorities that apprehend two high-ranking ISIS jihadists in the Senegal Airport were assisted by a security system developed by Securiport, a company...
Big Data Tech May Alter Modern-Time Homeland Security
A report on "Big Data & Data Analytics Market in Homeland Security and Public Safety: 2017-2022" forecasts that this industry's revenues will grow at...
New Counter-Terror Drones Revealed
Two specialist UAVs designed specifically for counter-terror operations were showcased by the French company CM Drones at a recent international exhibition. The company promoted...
Scientists Find Innovative Method for Remote Landmine Detection
Scientists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a new system that uses a combination of lasers and glowing bacteria for unexploded ordnance...
New Sniper Rifle for Military and Intelligence Missions
Russia plans to equip its military sharpshooters with a new sniper rifle soon, the director of the Central Research Institute for Precision Machine Building...
New Explosive Detection Lab will Examine Innovative Technologies
The US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will provide independent testing, evaluation, and certification of explosives detection equipment for...
New Approach to Border Security Risk Assessment
A new data-driven technology will detect border security risk. Two companies will collaborate in the development of an advanced data analytics solution for automated...
Police-Tech Revealed – Cell Phone Surveillance
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for the first time is publicly confirming it uses cell phone surveillance devices in investigations across Canada. RCMP...
Targeting Pods – the Operational Need Grows
By Arie Egozi
Until 20 years ago, targeting pods on fighter aircraft were considered as the privilege of air forces serving in countries with extensive...
Drone-Based EW System Will Hijack Phones
A Russian military drone-based electronic-warfare system is aiming to hi-jack phones. The Leer-3 RB-341V combines jammers and UAVs in order to disable cellular networks,...
Controversy Over Helicopter Border Patrols
The US Homeland Security Department has been reluctant to send helicopters on nighttime missions to aid the Border Patrol, leaving agents to face drug...
RTLS – New Way to Safely Track Objects and People
One way today's enterprise organizations, cities, and campuses tackle the pressures of being prepared at any moment is by implementing solutions that utilize real-time...
Voice Recognition Technology – Applied by Law Enforcement Teams
Drones fitted with facial recognition cameras and software programmed to recognise an individual’s voice in Arabic are some of the technologies that law enforcement...
Terrorist Liquidated with the Help of Drone?
The U.S. Department of Defense has recently confirmed that a U.S. counter-terrorism airstrike conducted March 19 in Afghanistan, resulted in the death of Qari...
IED Detection – Have Trained K9 Finished their Role?
The current threat environment of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) concealed on persons, in vehicles, and in the mail poses challenges for traditional explosive detection...
Big Data Solutions Sought for Vehicle Detection from Air
A new challenge designed to bring the brightest minds in big data science together to solve real-world problems was announced by the British Defence...
Machine Learning Based Translation Solution for Military Forces Abroad
A new digital system will supply translation services to US military expeditionary forces around the world. The US military recently revealed the Machine Foreign...
Cross-Border Biological Threat Screening – a Priority
The US has been promoting cross-border threat screening for biological agents. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced $35...
Searching for Extremists – Also in Prisons
A specialist team of counter-terrorism experts will be established in the UK as the government steps up efforts to tackle extremism in prisons in...
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Why AI Coding Agents Are Triggering Cybersecurity Alarms
Autonomous AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of writing code, installing software, modifying files, and interacting with operating systems with minimal human supervision. These...
