AeroVironment to supply Raven and Puma spare parts to US Army
AeroVironment has been awarded a series of contracts for the supply of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) spare parts to the US Army. The contracts...
Sagem Patroller UAV for French Army Contest
The French company Sagem (Société d’Applications Générales de l’Électricité et de la Mécanique - Company of General Applications of Electricity and Mechanics) has revealed...
Hackers breached US Army network
Gamers targeting Apache helicopter simulators belonging to the US Army hacked into an Army network.
Federal officials have indicted "Xbox Underground", a group of twenty-something-year-old...
HLS Trainers and simulators
Israel’s Home Front Command is using a trainer and simulator enabling search and rescue forces to train and simulate emergency scenarios, city streets, war...
New generation bunker-busting bombs
The US is secretly developing a new generation of bunker-busters. The prevailing assessment is that these bombs may be required in the framework of...
The defense industry is expanding the use of 3D printing
The Pentagon and the defense industry are rapidly expanding the use of 3D printing to make parts and tools for more sophisticated military equipment. The Obama...
iHLS TV – Ebola, domestic extremism, Shellshock bug, new octocopter and...
In this weekly report (7 October 2014):
Ebola as seen from space
Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse,
Hackers unleash Shellshock bug
New octocopter UAS
Darpa looking into the...
Da-Vinci, a compact, lightweight VTOL sUAS
Flying Production Ltd., a leader in the design and development of Defense and HLS solutions – including Multi-Rotor Platforms – just announced it will...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or a recipe for failure? Part...
The US, the most powerful country on earth, has an intelligence community comprising 17 major intelligence agencies: CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), FBI (Federal Bureau...
Wearable translation technology
Responding to disasters around the world requires communicating in foreign languages, the US Army’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division has teamed up with government...
iHLS TV Special Edition – Interview with Smadar Perry about ISIS...
iHLS TV Special Edition - Interview with Smadar Perry - Part 2, War on ISIS
Canadian DND orders iRobot 510 PackBot CBRN robots
iRobot has secured multi-year contracts for the delivery of iRobot 510 PackBot reconnaissance, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) recce systems to the Canadian...
DARPA seeks a better way to see in the dark
DARPA is looking for the next generation of wearable night vision gear.
The goal is to design night vision gear that is smaller and lighter...
iHLS TV Special Edition – Interview Smadar perry-Part 1, ISIS
iHLS TV Special Edition - Interview Smadar perry-Part 1, War on ISIS
NSA Says intelligence on the Islamic state could have been ‘stronger’
The nation’s top spies, including the head of the CIA, the NSA, the Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency took the stage...
NEW 40 mm grenade launcher compatible with any assault rifle
The new IWI 40 mm Grenade Launcher is compatible with all types of assault rifles.
Made of lightweight materials, the system is easy to assemble...
DARPA’s new tank stresses mobility over armor
Despite military advances in the field of armor improvements, DARPA's newest tank concept is based more around evasion.
The Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program is...
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This Upgrade Could Eliminate One of Laser Weapons’ Biggest Weaknesses
High-energy laser weapons are steadily moving from development programs into operational military service, but maintaining them in the field remains a significant challenge. One...
