First Responders
Mobile Emergency Phone Service provided by Helikite Balloon
Mobile telephone communication has changed the world in the last three decades. It has allowed developing world countries to establish telecommunications networks at a...
NYCPD backed by Bloomberg
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed two bills aiming to limit the NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy.
The New York Daily News reports that Bloomberg...
New water purifier for Marines and First Responders
A new, easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational...
Using fingerprints more efficiently
Researchers in the United Kingdom and France have developed a new and extremely sensitive method for visualizing fingerprints left on metal surfaces such as...
Big brother is watching your car in the U.S.
Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology available to law enforcement. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges,...
Advanced Robot for saving human lives
One of the most-advanced humanoid robots ever built was introduced to the public yesterday in Waltham, Mass.
The 6-foot 2-inches tall, 330-pound Atlas robot, built...
Optical tracking of people in indoor areas developed by Carnegie Mellon
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for tracking the locations of multiple individuals in complex, indoor settings using a network of...
More Crime fighters for Puerto Rico
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is increasing the number of agents and resources assigned to fight crime in Puerto Rico as part of...
The Dutch navy will use a simulator to get ready for emergencies
On the heels of a delivery to the Royal Netherlands Air Force, Environmental Tectonics Corp. has signed a contract for an additional disaster-management simulation...
Cockroaches in rescue missions?
North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a...
The Home Front – no policy, no equipment
Yesterday saw the resignation of the director general of the Home Front Defense
Ministry, Gabi Ophir. The resignation is only a symptom of total chaos....
Wanted – a Smartphone killer switch
U.S. law enforcement officials are demanding the creation of a “kill switch” that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, New York’s top...
The new Russian anti – riot weapon
Russian riot police units are well equipped with water cannon, tear gas grenades and electric stunning devices. But international experience shows that so-called “non-lethal...
Still the master of the bush
The 1,000th Bushmaster vehicle to be produced at Thales Australia’s Bendigo facility will be delivered to the Australian Defense Force in the coming days.
The...
New technologies will protect buildings from explosions and shrapnel
What exactly is the load on a building during an explosion resulting from a terror action, war or blow up of a domestic gas...
Training indoors to control crowds
Crowd control, a practical skill regularly taught to members of the military and police, is periodically brought to the forefront during clashes such as...
Germany wants to gather more personal data
According to Der Spiegel, Germany's intelligence agency has a 100-million-euro plan to expand Internet surveillance. Meanwhile, the interior minister wants travelers to fill out...
E-MIC – much more than just a microphone
The smart microphone of Accelradio: it can pass calls, commands, connection to networks, switching and relaying, and – it is packaged and designed like...
The special role of the Israeli Border Patrol
“We are the main police force that keeps law and order in the rural areas but we also have a major role in supporting...
In the U.S – Laptops and Cellphones are open for scrutiny
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data...
First i-HLS Video Analytics Conference
The rapid growth in video capturing, recording and transmission in recent years, has brought a new era, in which almost every corner of our...
Israel’s BIG DATA ANALYSIS – Turning a mountain of information into a valuable grain of Intelligence
The evolving capability to turn 'Big Data' into intelligence in timely and methodical processes enable governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap new...
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