First Responders

The 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, will help thirty-three cities in its first year. The challenge seeks to make...

Small unmanned air system (UAS) could soon be used to help find people missing in remote parts of the country Search and Rescue members from...

Simulating flames, fire and smoke at the Fire Fighting and Rescue Academy * Aimed at fire fighting training and drills Cadets at the Fire Fighting...

The scale of online sexual abuse of minors is extremely worrying * A special project by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to combat...

Hazardous nuclear events have the potential to cause huge levels of widespread damage to individuals and the environment. Getting close enough to these incidents...

The technical details of a "Death Ray" machine may be kept secret by a court order A criminal case in Albany, New York may soon...

Belgium’s Minister of the Interior, Joëlle Milquet has announced the pilot launch of an emergency population warning and information system in Belgium Thales was selected...

A delegation of senior officers of Israel’s Home Front Command, led by Major General Eyal Eizenberg, visited Chicago last week as guests of the...

Tens of thousands of agents, hundreds of drones, all guarding the U.S. borders Over the last few years the law enforcement agencies of the Department...

Interview with former Israeli Air Force Commander Herzl Bodinger, Chairman of the Israeli Missile Defense Association.

Israeli fire fighters' motto for summer 2014: “The best way to deal with a fire is to prevent it” As summer 2014 draws near the...

The Indiana Division of Homeland Security will conduct siren tests as part of a statewide tornado drill. Two tests will be initiated by the National...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding a three-year project through the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) aimed at identifying and reducing potential risks...

Two farm workers, badly burned A child's hand stuck in a gate, with several fingers severed A traveler in the Judea desert suffering a heart attack These...

The trend is clear- Police forces want UASs for performing their mission. Recently the Sussex police in England began to use a small UAS to...

Radiation detectors are getting smaller and cheaper A handheld radiation camera developed by the University of Michigan engineering researchers offers nuclear plant operators a faster...

Can that App save you after a severe earthquake? For now it will probably save the lives of a person buried under the weight...

New in the Israeli Police helicopter wing: Soon the aircraft will also be used to fight fires. The Internal Security Ministry recently published a...

A non-disclosure agreement that police departments around the country have been signing for years with the maker of a cell-phone spy tool explicitly prohibits...

The first class of students, including fire fighters, IDF soldiers and police officers, graduated from the Israeli Fire Fighting and Rescue Authority's new Hazardous...

Articles and issues discussed in this report: New system for launching and retrieving ship-based UAVs Iranian hackers infiltrate U.S. Navy networks German Army UAV attrition rates revealed New...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has asked for proposals to help improve Web searches for defense and other agencies and eventually the public. Initially,...