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Amazon has been urged to stop marketing a powerful facial recognition tool to police. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy activists are...
special forces

Special Forces are trained for specific purposes and often require special equipment, including in the tactical communications field. A new control unit developed for...
counter-uav

Measures to counter UAVs are getting mobile. They can be quickly deployed on a range of vehicles and are capable of detecting and defeating...
security accelerator

We in iHLS are delighted to open the fifth cycle of our Security Accelerator. The new batch of startups was selected earlier this week...
missile system

Man-portable and lightweight, Switchblade is a uniquely powerful LMAMS (Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System) solution for today’s complex combat environments.  It is designed to...
Cormorant

The Cormorant UAS has a unique dual-role capability as the only UAS recognized by NATO to fulfill both cargo delivery and CasEvac missions. As...
tactical SUVs

A new collaboration has created ‘always-connected’ tactical SUVs for the likes of first responders and law enforcement. Microsoft has partnered with satellite connectivity firm...
google

Google has been experiencing internal criticism and employee resignations regarding its involvement in a pilot program of the US Department of Defense that analyzes...
emergency responders

Emergency first responders often lack a standard system that supplies vital information about people who have been in an accident or who are suffering...
killer robots

India has been assessing whether it needs to develop killer robots - artificial intelligence-based weapon systems for the military, capable of identifying and attacking...
space

NASA is using the next generation of satellites to monitor changes in the world’s water supplies. Scientists say the mission will provide critical data...
cybersecurity

Japan will be hosting the 2019 Rugby World Championship and the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, global events that are likely to attract attention from...
human's actions

Researchers have created a deep-learning system that can teach a robot simply by observing a human's actions. Developed by Nvidia, the system is designed...
rifle-mounted system

A new portable system small enough to mount on a personal firearm provides its user with the ability to quickly locate the source of...
startup competition

iHLS is delighted to host for the first time the prestigious Startup Competition for innovative technologies in the security, defense and homeland security fields,...
battlefield

Over the next few years, the Pentagon will spend almost $1 billion for a range of robots designed to complement combat troops at the...
underwater drone

Russia is developing a powerful underwater drone that can carry a nuclear warhead with a capacity of up to 2 megatonnes. As tass.com reports,...
bombs

The U.S. State Department has cleared Bahrain to buy 3,200 General Purpose (GP) and Penetrator Warhead bomb bodies to arm its fleet of F-16...
driverless car

Dubai’s authorities have been adopting more advanced technologies within the framework of their vision of Dubai as becoming the smartest city in the world....
robot

A new robot project blurs the boundary between materials and robots. Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without...
arctic

Commercial shipping, tourism and cruise ship traffic to the Norwegian northern archipelago of Svalbard and the surrounding marine areas have all grown dramatically in...
coast guard

The US Coast Guard is checking the possibility of carrying out many of its missions through the use of short-range UAVs, with the aim...