Security

  The operational testing of the Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) system in Virginia will be expanded The Centaur, a large UAS developed by adding autonomy-enabling...

  The government of Japan requested to purchase three Global Hawk drones, eight Kearfott navigation systems, eight global positioning systems, as well as other support...

A recent patent application by Boeing reveals an autonomous solution that would allow dual-use drones to operate for months, overcoming the battery life problem. The...

The Internet of Things (Iot) is set to greatly expand government surveillance capabilities, according to the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “In...

Isis-linked terrorists in Belgium are thought to have been planning to build a ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb, according to a report. Jihadi brothers Khalid and Ibrahim...

This is the next big step in small, very small, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing an RFI for a...

In a world first, the US Air Force’s EQ-4 Global Hawk drone has completed its 500th flight. After nearly 13,000 flight hours, the Global Hawk...

The European Defense Agency (EDA) has hired the services of the Spanish company Indra to develop new forensic analysis laboratories for Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices...

Electric vehicles (EV) are still far from the norm, but their increasing popularity is driving money into research for chargers and ancillary devices. Soon,...

IAI has recently received a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to supply four Super Dvora Mk3 Fast Patrol Boats, to an African...

Is there anything the US National Security Agency can’t do? It can tap undersea fibre optic cables in real time, track the locations of...

The US Defense Department (DoD) has been attributing growing importance to the military intelligence cyber field. This has been reflected by the DoD’s recent...

Rachel Ehrenfeld* The opaqueness that marks both the Obama administration and Ayatollah Khamenei's regime, makes it difficult to know how many unfrozen billions of...

It’s a tough job, working for security services and law enforcement investigating crimes or terror attacks, having to sit for hours and straining your...

Outcry From Social Networks and New Media Forces Governments to Invest Billions in Less Lethal Weapons  Over the next ten years, the Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW)...

Seaports customs and security professionals might sometimes miss contraband attempts, including radiological materials. The problem was hightened during a US congressional hearing, when officials...

Robots might be the next trend for private security. For the moment, the robots are essentially designed to patrol a certain area. They've got...

East European militaries are increasingly deploying UAVs, with governments planning acquisitions and local defense companies developing systems to bid against Western manufacturers. Poland’s ongoing 139...

The new payload, ELI-3332, developed by Elta a subsidiary of Israel aerospace industries (IAI) is an advanced aerostat-borne intelligence payload especially designed to overcome...

A new program will develop temporary underwater fiber-optics communications networks to ensure connectivity when tactical networks are unavailable. DARPA’s Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA)...

The simulation field is one of the realms being developed in fifth gear in many industries, especially the security one. The young up-and-coming 3DOR...

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...