Dogs’ olfactory senses, screening, ariport and border checkpoints
How do you train a dog to detect a threat and issue an alert?
Dogs are known for their highly keen sense of smell. While...
Disaster prevention along oil and gas pipes
Red Waves Systems is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
Long pipe infrastructure, which could...
Widening Scope of Flight Sanctions Over Fear of Terrorist Attacks
An increase in security checks for flights from some Middle East airports was announced by Australia, though the country stopped short of implementing the...
First Citywide Testing of Mobile Radiation Sensors Network
An advanced radioactive threat detection system completed its first large-scale citywide testing of more than 1,000 networked, mobile radiation sensors in Washington, D.C.
Several hundred...
Locating Radiation by The Mobile Phone
In accidents or terror attacks which are suspected to involve radioactive substances, it’s difficult to determine whether people nearby have been exposed to radiation...
New Drone Detection System for Urban Environments
In recent years, Singapore has been showing a deep interest in the drone business, and more specifically drone detection. The country has acquired an...
A Look Into The Future: Chemicel Scanners
Researchers from US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) tested a quadcopter dubbed Deep Purple during the SK Challenge at Utah's Dugway Proving Ground,...
Airports Coping With Laptop Ban
Manufacturers of airport security equipment may have a solution for travelers who fear they will have to give up laptops and tablet computers on...
Israeli academic institutions shoulder the development efforts focusing on Robotic solutions...
Israel's universities and institutes have teams developing various robots which will be capable of travelling across tunnels, overcome barriers and map their surroundings.
The last...
The Ebola epidemic: Carriers difficult to detect
On Thursday, the Nigerian government announced that they had started screening passengers at international airports for signs of Ebola after a passenger showed up...
Travelers from Ebola-affected nations restricted to 5 U.S. airports
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Tuesday that travelers from three West African Ebola-affected countries will now be required to enter the...
Hovering UAVs secure Jerusalem’s light train
BLADEWORX is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
The disturbances and riots which broke out...
Robot firefighter puts out its first blaze
A humanoid firefighting robot was live tested in the U.S.
This was the first live test for SAFFiR – the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot –...
NYPD equips officers with biometric smartphones
A new $160 million program will track police officers via GPS and give every officer a mobile fingerprint scanner.
New York Police Department officers and...
Is the Biometric Storage Safe? Hackers succeeded in replicating a fingerprint
Over the years, fingerprints have become one of the best decisive means of identification. Nevertheless, it would seem that technology has made a leap...
iHLS TV – Nuclear Turkey, Apache simulator hacked, drone strikes in...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (21 October 2014):
German intelligence: Turkey is working on its own nuclear program
Gamers hacked US Army Apache simulator
US...
Wearable translation technology
Responding to disasters around the world requires communicating in foreign languages, the US Army’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division has teamed up with government...
Smartphone vs. Big Brother
We are all understandably ’hysterical’ about maintaining our privacy. There is no doubt this is a burning, crucial issue. Nevertheless, we ought to bear...
Steak Knives from JFK Restaurants inside the “Sterile Area”
According to a report in Newsday, passengers in JFK airport in New York can take steak knives with 5-inch serrated steel blades from two...
CT Scans – Not Only for The Healthcare Sector
A new luggage-scanning technology that increases security and speeds the screening lines in airports may be on the way. The US Transportation Security Administration...
MDA’s new cellular positioning technology
A traffic accident in some remote road in the middle of the night. Someone calls 911, at which point the call center asks 'what...
New Airport Imaging Technology Released
The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, US, debuted its first full-body advanced imaging technology scanning machine recently. The new technology, using an automated target recognition...











































