Ebola epidemic: WHO declares global emergency
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...
California governor vetoes drone surveillance bill
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill requiring law enforcement officials to secure warrants from a judge prior to using drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
New Eye on Reality
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Safran Identity & Security – Vast Array of Identity Management Security...
Safran Identity & Security (previously known as Morpho) is a world leader in the security sector, combining several key areas of expertise to give...
How to protect U.S. grid from cyber attacks
The US electrical grid remains alarmingly vulnerable to a variety of cyber threats. Judging by the number and type of cyber incidents reported to...
ODNI crowsources speech-recognition software
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...
British MOD Enhancing Airport Security Capabilities
The British defense agencies have been recently focusing on the improvement of airport security. Smiths Detection, a global company in the threat detection and...
Drone Giant Announces New, Free Tracking Solution
Unauthorized drone flying has led to flight delays and cancellations at airports, costing the aviation industry millions of dollars. Industry is eying ways to...
Startup: Identifying Dangerous Individuals Using Biometric Face Structure
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Israel to receive its fifth Dolphin-class submarine within a year
The Israeli navy’s fleet of Dolphin-class subs is expanding. The fifth vessel is expected to arrive in Israel within a year’s time and join...
Intelligence in jail – ISIS terrorist prison break foiled
The weekly security bulletin of the National Offender Management Service published a story on a Muslim ISIS terrorist who had planned to take a...
Is Biometric Identification a 100% Safe?
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Israel’s Defense Industry and R&D Recruited to Address Coronavirus Pandemic
Israel is recruiting cutting-edge defense R&D and industries to address the Coronavirus pandemic. Israel’s health and defense establishments asked the defense industries to help...
Five Leading Airport Security Technologies by 2030
The protection of passengers, staff and aircraft in the airport and its vicinities from crime, terror and other threats has always been on high...
AI Tech to Revolutionize Baggage Screening
AI will speed passengers and visitors through checkpoints, lower operating costs, and dramatically improve security. A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) software platform released recently...
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A New Flight Simulation System Models the Chaos of Wildfires
Training helicopter pilots for wildfire missions is particularly difficult because the environment itself is constantly changing. Smoke, shifting winds, rising heat, and the interaction...
