Uruguay: New Police UAVs Enter Service
In the framework of a local safe city program, which includes the installation of hundreds of security cameras especially in the downtown area of...
Australia Knew the NSA was Hacking iPhones
Australian intelligence agencies may have had knowledge of a top secret U.S. NSA program for targeting iPhones, according to newly-released documents.
Slides released recently by...
Libya’s New Border Monitoring Satellite Program
Libya will build a satellite surveillance system with Italian expertise to help secure its borders in order to stem the flow of Islamist militants...
New Thermal Imaging Cameras for U.S. Border Patrol
The U.S customs and borders (CBP) has awarded a contract worth more than $67,000 to General Dynamics Global Imaging Technologies, Inc. to supply its...
Security Sensors Become Wireless
Organizations are adopting and upgrading sensors to boost security and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for defense, homeland security, and border protection. Many...
Privacy Groups Call On UN to Adopt Surveillance Resolution
Five human rights groups urged the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a new resolution against indiscriminate mass surveillance.
According to Computer World the draft...
Aerostat Systems Aid U.S. DHS Border Patrols
TCOM, the supplier of airborne persistent surveillance solutions, is supporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to improve U.S. Border Patrol operations in the...
Israely Developer to Present Video Synopsis Solution at MILIPOL
BriefCam, Israeli developer of Video Synopsis solutions, will present BriefCam Syndex, a new product range based on company technology, to the European security and...
Advanced Police Surveillance Tech Poses Significant Privacy Concerns
The steady growth of the use of digital surveillance technologies by local police departments may dramatically improve the efficiency of criminal investigations, but it...
9900: The Israeli Satellite Intelligence Unit
The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...
New Security Cameras to Detect Violent Motions
A special CCTV camera might know what you are doing, thanks to a monitoring system that can detect aggressive behavior.
According to New Scientist, Kintense,...
Homeland Security Testing Facial Recognition Accuracy
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started a program that will test the accuracy of various off-the-shelf facial recognition programs.
Facial recognition has come...
DARPA Selects Company to Develop New Navy UAV
DARPA has picked AeroVironment as the prime contractor to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV designed to operate from small ships. The $2.3 million contract...
How to Process the “Mountain” of Video Data?
How can security forces deal with the astronomic amounts of video data collected by all sorts of different sensors? Over the past decade, technological...
Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
A sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street.
EVERYONE knows...
Lockheed Martin to Continue Supporting U.S. Army’s PTDS System
Lockheed Martin will continue to support a tethered aerostat-based system that provides real-time, around-the-clock reconnaissance and surveillance for warfighters in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army...
Local Police Use Advanced Surveillance Technology
Once reserved for Federal agencies like the National Security Agency, local police departments are now using high-end surveillance technology. The police have recently incorporated...
New Israeli Payload Includes HDTV Cameras
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Tamam Division is introducing a new POP300D-HD - True High Definition (HD) Day and Night Stabilized Optronic Payload using a 1280x1024...
U.S. Homeland Security to Operate Air Force Border Blimps
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will take over control of the fleet of aerostat radar systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. Until now...
New U.S. Long-Range UAVs to Launch from Small Ships
A U.S. military research program, that seeks to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be launched and recovered from relatively small...
Israeli Company Launches New Surveillance System
Seraphim Optronics launches the Remote Observation Sensor System (ROSS). Seraphim, a leading developer of electro-optic surveillance and security equipment, has added the ROSS to...
Boeing will evaluate an Israeli Radar System
Boeing Directed Energy Systems will evaluate the RADA Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar – (MHR) for its operability as part of Boeing’s Directed Energy tactical systems....
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