Personal Gear

Personal Gear

new earplugs

New earplugs for soldiers and law enforcement teams supply active hearing protection and better situational awareness. OTTO Engineering, specializing in the design and manufacture...
future forces

Cutting-edge technological responses to the future warfare challenges will be the focus of the conference on Future Forces that will be hosted by iHLS...
brain

The frequent use of explosive devices in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has given birth to a new type of war injury: multiple mild...
special operations

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) - office of Science and Technology strives to deliver game-changing technology to enable US warfighters to have an...
policemen vests

  A group of bioengineering students from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee has found a way to leverage technology to protect police officers nationwide. Their quest started...
special forces

More than a year after the U.S. Department of Defense repealed a longtime ban on women serving in ground combat assignments, relatively few have...
first responders

  Exoskeleton technologies are fulfilling new roles in the military, industrial, commercial and first-responder applications. Lockheed Martin has licensed the bionic augmentation technology Dermoskeleton from...
thermal monocular

The recently unveiled Pulsar Helion Thermal Monoculars have been getting attention in the thermal industry by setting the bar for feature-packed technologically advanced optics. According...
nano-UAV

A new version of a military nano-UAV has been under development. FLIR's Prox Dynamics unit is in the process of developing a new version...
armor

  Composite metal foams (CMFs) could drastically improve the strength of armor as well as increase shielding from radiation, heat and high-speed kinetic impacts. CMFs,...
shield

  A new shield offers multi-hit protection from armor-piercing rifle bullets and is easily carried by a single armed shield operator. The shield is constructed...
injured officer

First police agency in the US is to use a new technology which many say could be the difference between life and death. The...
grenade trigger pouch

A new development was introduced into special units around the world as well as some units in the Israeli Defense Forces. The Grenade Trigger Pouch...
power technologies

As troops find themselves carrying a growing array of sophisticated battery-powered devices, US Army researchers are investigating new portable power technologies that can safely...
armor inspection

An innovative armor inspection method of rapidly assessing if a soldier’s body armor has suffered damage on the front line was created by a...
wearable sensor

A wearable sensor that can monitor a person’s skin hydration for use in applications that need to detect dehydration before it poses a health...
bullet proof jacket

The Indian Air Force will equip Its special forces with bullet-proof jackets. Learning lessons from experience of its Garud commandos during the Pathankot airbase...
law enforcement

New technologies offer law enforcement officers various personal security solutions. Safariland, a leader in the armor market, has picked Honeywell’s Spectra Shield and Gold...

FoxFury Lighting Solutions recently announced its new Taker R40 shield light for police, military and security forces. The shield is a powerful lighting tool...

The Sharjah Police has been displaying some of the most pioneering homeland security technology it has adopted at the UAE Innovation Week recently. According to...

Athletes have been guessing how much water they need to drink for decades, and getting it wrong, with significant consequences to performance and safety....

When the DoD launched the acquisition process for the F-35 Lightning II, they invigorated the defense industry world-wide, creating an influx of new technologies,...

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