Communications

Canada stands to benefit from a space-related search and rescue system. The country has awarded Phase II of the Medium Earth Orbit Search and...

Frontline units often face a simple limitation: access to real-time aerial intelligence. In many cases, smaller formations must rely on higher command to allocate...

Integrating Big Data coming in from a flurry of visual or textual intelligence resources is a highly complex and multifaceted task given the highly...

Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...

Large-scale emergencies often trigger a secondary crisis: the sudden loss of communications. Floods, fires, earthquakes, or cyberattacks can knock out established infrastructure within minutes,...

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a new autonomy framework that enables multiple unrelated unmanned systems to communicate and collaborate on a mission. The demonstration took...

The daily routine of the emergency service personnel, cops, fire fighters and emergency medicine doctors, is packed full with a wide variety of events,...

In a cost-saving move, Pentagon contractors subcontracted their work to the Russians, a four-year probe concludes. The probe was started in 2011 after John C...

The leading conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems and Robotics – AUS&R 2017, organized by iHLS for the fifth year, will include live demonstrations and...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced the launch of the first authorized app to expedite a traveler’s entry process into the U.S. Mobile...

Many smartphones encrypt their contents when locked, as standard - a security feature that often prevents even the phones' manufacturers from accessing data. Such...

A new space architecture will support the building of an optically meshed network, optical telecommunications network employing wired fiber-optic communication. The US Defense Advanced...

The Pentagon and military services are expediting an effort to foster more cross-domain interoperability between networks operating on its intelligence channels. The system, known as...

Britain will fund research into robotics, 5G (5th generation mobile networks) and driverless cars. This was included in the latest budget announced by Philip...

The United Kingdom’s Emergency Services Mobile Communications Program (ESMCP) will replace the communication service currently delivered by Airwave, which was criticized following the July...

Quantum computing is still in a development stage but it is expected to accelerate us into the future by impacting the landscape of artificial...

Researchers developed an innovation that promises to enhance satellite navigation by leveraging wideband multiplexed signals for improved accuracy. They are doing so using a...

SDI is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014 Until not so long ago, we have...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly. The number of internet-connected devices is expected to hit 6.4 billion in 2016, and to surpass...

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

To make informed decisions and achieve their objective, tactical teams and special operators require the ability to quickly and securely process and share mission...