First Responders

Elbit Systems announced that it recently demonstrated innovative integrated technologies, to provide secure broadband services to be used by governmental, military and public safety...

The Chinese company Ewatt Technology is introducing its new SVU-200 VTUAV to the AUVSI show in Washington. It is the first time the unmanned...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon be taking new applications for its unmanned aircraft assessment program — a project that gives potential...

First response Firefighting robot creates 3D images of burning buildings’ interiors for rescuers. Researchers develop novel robotic scouts that assist firefighters in residential and commercial...

The U.S. government is planning to expand its suspect surveillance programs to include tactics which are commonly used by computer hackers. Fox News reports that...

To Yitzhak Aharonovich, Minister of Internal Security   Over the past few weeks, television channels broadcast recordings of citizens calling the police’ 100 hotline and...

Mobile telephone communication has changed the world in the last three decades. It has allowed developing world countries to establish telecommunications networks at a...

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...

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...

 Researchers in the United Kingdom and France have developed a new and extremely sensitive method for visualizing fingerprints left on metal surfaces such as...

Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology available to law enforcement. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges,...

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...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for tracking the locations of multiple individuals in complex, indoor settings using a network of...

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...

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...

North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a...

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....

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...

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...

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...

What exactly is the load on a building during an explosion resulting from a terror action, war or blow up of a domestic gas...

Crowd control, a practical skill regularly taught to members of the military and police, is periodically brought to the forefront during clashes such as...