Screening

Security measures encompassing Israel's aviation are unique. The special circumstances Israel faces, constantly threatened by terror attacks have lead to these solutions. When the...

Facing the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, with almost 1,000 fatalities in West Africa, the World Health Organization declared an international public...

As time passes, Video Analytics capabilities in investigations carried out by security services turn from a luxury to necessity. Citizens expect the government to...

AI will speed passengers and visitors through checkpoints, lower operating costs, and dramatically improve security. A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) software platform released recently...

Smiths Detection has won a follow-on order for over $8 million to supply mobile X-ray cargo screening systems to the Canada Border Services Agency...

A new challenge designed to bring the brightest minds in big data science together to solve real-world problems was announced by the British Defence...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...

Who should individuals be more concerned about – intelligence and espionage agencies or their own local cellular companies? In an expose on Verizon (NYSE: VZ),...

Representatives from the U.S. Special Operations Command revealed that they were testing two rapid DNA readers in forward locations. The operators feed in a...

Nearly 60 people suspected of Islamist radicalism have had their security clearances to work at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport revoked. The 86,000 individuals...

New security tools are needed to prevent the types of mass shootings that have become endemic to US culture in recent years. With policymakers...

The U.S Department of Homeland Security announced plans to expand its controversial pre-clearance program at foreign airports, saying that requiring travelers to undergo screening...

The US Department of Defense evaluates that the military’s traditional intelligence sensors are not always optimal for the tasks that have become more and...

Airport security policy in the US is now focusing on passengers’ cameras. In an effort to improve the security of airline passengers and airports,...

A new research offers safer and more effective airport security scanning that could work to decrease waiting times. The research follows the alarming results...

Customs officers are the front line of enforcing lawful and secure trade, screening for illegal contraband and dangerous goods. Their challenge is to quickly...

By the end of 2014, the North America & Latin America markets for Object Recognition, Video Analytics, Intelligent Video Surveillance & ISR products and...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (28 October 2014): Ebola possibly weaponized Safe City projects US next generation bunker-buster bombs New Hovermast unveiled Euclid antenna pedestals

DARPA is looking for ways to extract more information from light than cameras typically do, which could help troops spot hidden enemies. The Pentagon’s emerging...

"Terrain Dominance" or "terrain intelligence" or "field presence" are various terms for the same concept: how any military force could have knowledge of the...

Image identification technology developed by HTS in Israel may solve the problem of scanning air cargo before it is loaded to the plane. Air...

As drones become cheaper, smaller, and easier to modify, security teams face a growing challenge: many threats do not appear in the sky—they arrive...