First Responders

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a framework of regulations allowing routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...

Robots, Less Lethal Weapons and more: the Israeli Military Industry is expanding into the Homeland Security area Nobody at IMI is waiting for the company’s...

Four Australians were among 21 people arrested as part of a six-month international Homeland Security sting. Two people from the were charged with buying illegal...

A recent US Department of Homeland Security report on visa entry/exit overstays for fiscal year 2015 highlights glaring deficiencies in enforcement, with 1,282 individuals...

The GRIFF 300 drone combines a lifting capacity of up to 300 kg and a long flight time (30-45 mins). The large drone, manufactured...

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

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would allow four private companies - Trimble Navigation, VDOS Global, Clayco Inc., and Woolpert Inc. -...

The emergency service of Ireland is currently researching the use of the remote-controlled aircraft, also known as “Quadcopters”, for major incidents in what have...

Too many incidents occuring between police officers and civilians which involve controversial use of force by officers, brutality and unjustified shootings have caused a...

Washington is putting serious effort into pushing smart gun technology forward. The White House has just released a joint report by the Defence, Justice,...

Over the backdrop of the shootout attack carried out in a public domain, the city of New Orleans has been considering the use of...

A new technique has been developed to assist in finding latent prints at the crime scene. In a crime scene examination, investigators collect items of...

Augmented reality and virtual reality have the potential to serve as threat modeling tools that could enhance security professionals’ understanding of the threat landscape...

A new sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system) was recently introduced to market – the STORM – a small tactical UAS that comes as a...

Simulators to train first responders are being developed in many countries. One has recently been inaugurated in Concordia University. According to the Skanner, this is...

Paz Shabtai Perhaps due to international pressure, mainly from the US and Russia, to secure its border with Syria and to enforce strict border control,...

Law enforcement cars will be equipped with a new protection technology. FCA US LLC, an established automaker, recently declared that effective immediately, all 2017...

Scientists in Russia wearing an exoskeleton succeeded in controling a distant connected robot in Germany, within the fraemwork of a project called CAPIO with...

Hurricane Matthew was one of the first operational uses of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) HURREVAC-eXtended (HV-X)...

Several U.S federal programs are helping local law enforcement to acquire heavy weapons. This is done either by making funds available or by providing the equipment directly. One...

We have written before about China building its own secure smartphone ecosystem - including a homegrown operating system and even processing chips - all...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a request for information, stating that it wants businesses to present it with their most cutting-edge...