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....
Israeli Company Assisting With Brazil’s First Microsatellite
AEL Sistemas, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, unveiled Brazil's first microsatellite for military applications in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.
According to AEL, the...
New Device Locates GPS Jamming Threats
Signal Sentry 1000, an Exelis product that detects and locates GPS interference sources in 3-D by using longitude, latitude and altitude has demonstrated successful...
NSA Tried to Crack U.S. Funded Anonymity Protection System
The National Security Agency (NSA) has repeatedly tried to develop attacks against people using Tor, a software tool designed to protect online anonymity –...
The Flying Server – a Tactical Cloud
Mercury Systems has released what it describes as a “flying server” able to be carried by airborne platforms and pods, which will bring a...
Israeli Company to Supply GPS Immunity Systems to an Asian-Pacific Country
Elisra, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, was selected by an Asian-Pacific country to deliver Elisra’s advanced GPS immunity system, iSNS, for a military...
Israeli Company to Deliver UAS Simulator to Minnesota College
Israeli company, Simlat was selected to provide an UAS & ISR Training & Simulation Center for the Northland Imagery Analysis college program. Northland’s Imagery...
Al Qaeda Plot Leak Undermined U.S. Intelligence
The recent disclosures about the U.S. intelligence agencies are causing more damage as time passes.
As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures...
Brazil Becomes Hot Market for Surveillance Technology Ahead of World Cup
Giants of the surveillance sector get contracts in a number of Brazilian cities during the games of 2014 – from security scanners to remote...
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This Combat Robot Just Fired Anti-Tank Missiles During Live Trials
Integrating heavy weapons onto compact robotic ground vehicles has become a growing focus for modern militaries, but the engineering challenge is significant. Small unmanned...
