China and North Korea May Have Sold Missiles to Egypt
American intelligence believes Egypt is once again using Chinese and North Korean missile experts to improve Egyptian ballistic missiles. The Chinese firm involved (China...
Rafi Maor – New IAI Chairman of the Board
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and Finance Minister Yair Lapid formally appointed Rafi Maor as the Israel Aerospace Industry Chairman of the Board of Directors....
UAE to Fund New Italian UAV
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment fund has beefed up its stake in Italian firm Piaggio Aero. This comes just as the aeronautics firm...
New U.S. Army UAV Contracts
Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by the U.S. Army Rapid...
Israely Developer to Present Video Synopsis Solution at MILIPOL
BriefCam, Israeli developer of Video Synopsis solutions, will present BriefCam Syndex, a new product range based on company technology, to the European security and...
Turkey Moves to Keep Air Defense Competition Open to U.S., Europe
Turkey continues to juggle with its Western allies. After a stunning decision to select a Chinese contender to build Turkey’s first long-range air and...
U.S. Navy to Upgrade Fleet of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
U.S. Navy officials have asked Hydroid Inc. to repair and upgrade the Navy's fleet of MK 18 Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), as well...
Lockheed Martin Opens New Cyber-Security Center in Australia
Lockheed Martin has officially opened a Security Intelligence Centre (SIC) in the Canberra suburb of Kingston. Establishment of the new SIC continues Lockheed Martin’s...
Smart Cloud Service Receives U.S. Government Authorization
IBM’s SmartCloud for Government, infrastructure as-a-service cloud platform, has been granted Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program...
American UAV Manufacturer Raises $7 Million Dollars
CyPhy Works, developer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has announced the latest round of financing, this time $7 million, led by Lux Capital...
U.S. Company Launches New High-Capacity Robotic Arm
CoroWare Technologies has announced availability for the CoroBot RA-144 robotic arm, a powerful robot arm that complements their CoroBot smart unmanned ground vehicle (Smart...
Israel’s AUS&R Unmanned Vehicles Salon Event
"Rishon Lezion joins other cities around the world hosting air salons. We will turn the event on November 26th, the first Israeli unmanned vehicles...
China to Build New National UAV Industrial Hub
China will establish a special industrial base for the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Beijing’s southern Daxing District, reports Chinese-language media...
New Explosives Detector Receives DHS Approval
Implant Sciences Corporation announced that the QS-B220 explosives and drugs trace detector has been issued a SAFETY Act Designation from the Department of Homeland...
The Civilian UAV Market is on the Rise
Venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets on the commercial applications of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Draper, an early investor in Hotmail,...
U.S. Army to Develop Battlefield Biological Detection System
U.S. Army researchers are preparing to asking industry to design a lightweight, low cost, man-portable, battery-operated system to detect, collect, and identify biological pathogens...
U.S. Army to Develop Soldier-Worn Power-Management Systems
Experts at Protonex Technology Corp. in Southborough, Mass., will develop soldier-worn power-management systems under terms of a $2.2 million contract from the Army Natick...
Belarus to Build Aerial Drones in Turkmenistan
The former Soviet states of Turkmenistan and Belarus have agreed on a project to jointly build an aerial drone factory in the energy-rich Central...
TSA to Test New Checkpoint Detector Systems
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has ordered advanced software and hardware for uncovering liquid explosives and other threats.
The systems, which can be retrofitted into...
Norway to Develop Pocket UAV for U.S. Army
U.S. Army researchers are asking a Norwegian company to develop a pocket-sized helicopter drone to provide a personal reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for...
Research and Markets: Global Homeland Security Market Report
The Global Homeland Security Market is estimated at a value of $415.53 billion for 2013 and is expected to register a CARC of 5.54%...
Veteran Israeli Company Enters the Cyber-Defense Market
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The Israeli company Magal, known for its physical defense systems, is now entering the cyber-defense market as well. The company will supply...
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