The US Wants to Build A Fence – In Space
As we’ve written here before, future wars could well be fought in space. The US Air Force is now looking for ways to protect...
DARPA Wants Smarter, Faster, Safer Armoured Vehicles
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is embarking on a project to make military ground vehicles safer, faster, and smarter. The Ground...
Watch: Polish Police’s New Bomb Disposal Robots
The Polish police has ordered two new robots for examining and neutralizing hazardous materials. The systems will be used by bomb disposal specialists and...
DARPA’s New Method For Demilitarising Chemical Weapons
Chemical weapons have been banned under international law since the 1990s, but many countries still hold on to pretty large stores of some of...
DHS To Test Bioterror Airflow in New York Subway
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will conduct a week-long airflow study, starting today, in portions of the New...
Sensors: Critical Necessity For Perimeter Protection
There are many systems out there on the perimeter security market, the question is how to best combine them for maximum protection.
The first line...
Watch China’s Autonomous Armed Security Robot
China’s People Daily brings news of a new RoboCop type bot developed at China’s National Defence University. The Anbot is designed with anti-terrorism and...
White House Seeks To Jumpstart Smart Gun Technology
Washington is putting serious effort into pushing smart gun technology forward. The White House has just released a joint report by the Defence, Justice,...
Watch: DARPA Is Changing the Tank As We Know It
We all know tanks, more or less. At least, we all know what they are for: Advancing headlong into the enemy’s territory and winning...
WATCH: This Armour Disintegrates Bullets
Since bullets appeared on the scene a few hundred years ago, nothing has been the same. If once some chainmail or plate armour was...
Lockheed Martin Mini-Missile Takes Flight in New Demonstration
A Lockheed Martin-built Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor was successfully launched from a Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) in an engineering demonstration on April 4 at White...
Is There A Better Way To Protect Cities From Terrorism?
A new report highlights the essential role of counter-terrorism technologies used by diverse partnerships formed across all levels of security services, from international agencies...
Critical Infrastructure In Danger From Hackers
When we think about protecting critical infrastructure, we usually imagine cameras, fences, men with guns, and other physical manifestations of security. But experts are...
Cybersecurity Is About To Get Quantum Upgrade
Researchers at the University of Sydney just made a major breakthrough in cyber security. They managed to get single photons to behave as carriers...
Drones Give Edge In Fight Against Poaching
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finally giving conservationists a significant lead in the fight against poachers. Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shepherd Initiative employs drones to...
The New Cryptography: Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes - is there anything they can’t do? They’re strong, hard, loaded with unique electrical, thermal, and optical properties, and have been heralded...
WATCH: Anti-Drone Net Launcher
As drones have become cheaper and more popular, so have the risks associated with them grown proportionally. Last year, in a second incident of...
Will AI Destroy Us? Probably not
Strong Artificial Intelligence is still a long way off, it happens at all. But the worry that keeps creeping up is that once we...
Could Bullets Avoid Civilian Casualties?
The US Army is working on a new “safe” bullet. Safe to bystanders, at least, but still just as lethal for the intended target....
The Israeli Startups: The Future Of Authentication Systems
Most current password security systems for the Internet are flawed. And it goes beyond the systems themselves: Passwords really are just an awful way...
Northrop Planning “Cyber Resilient” Next-Gen Jet
Defence manufacturer Northrop Grumman is tackling one of the biggest developing problems of fighter jets: cyber risk. Tom Vice, President at Northrop Grumman Aerospace...
Russian Spy Plane Over US?
On Monday, 22 February, Russia filed a request to fly a spy plane loaded with surveillance equipment over the United States. To the uninformed,...
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