Tougher longer life armor glass
Transparent armor is used in a large variety of military and police armored vehicles to provide superior situational awareness while preserving the security of...
New lightweight Armor
Stark Aerospace has recently unveiled ProtectLite Armor, a cost effective lightweight, highly resilient, survivability solution at the 2014 AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, being...
Counterfeit parts in military and aviation systems – the problem is...
The entire homeland security sector relies heavily on sophisticated electronic systems. Is there a danger they will fail at the moment of truth due...
HoverLite: New Intelligence gathering solution
Stark Aerospace, a U.S subsidiary of IAI, has unveiled the HoverLite tactical tethered hovering aerial ISR system. This is a new hovering intelligence gathering...
Navy Debuts Unmanned Robotic Boats with New Swarm Capability
The technology gives a glimpse of how the Navy could man and equip itself in the decades ahead. An unmanned seven-meter rigid hulled inflatable...
US military planes arrive at epicenter of Ebola
Monrovia, Liberia: Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone Thursday with more Marines, as West Africa's leaders pleaded for the world's...
Counter IED and Mine System unveiled
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled its new CIMS (Counter IED and Mine Suite) - an integrated suite of sensors for protection of tactical maneuvering...
ODNI crowsources speech-recognition software
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...
Troops fighting Ebola will earn up to $400 extra per month
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WideBridge solution: For mission-critical secure broadband services
Elbit Systems WideBridge™ solution provides ease of use secure multimedia and situational awareness services, using FirstNet LTE networks together with LMR networks.
The U.S. Department of...
AUSA 2014
AUSA 2014 is currently being held in Washington until October 15. Having begun yesterday, October 13, the annual meeting and exposition, complete with lectures...
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
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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...
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