Safe City Technologies Will Secure US Presidential Inauguration
Various measures will be involved in the securing of the upcoming US Presidential inauguration event, turning Washington, DC into a platform for Safe City...
New Solution for UAV Tracking
NASA has designed an innovative antenna-mounting platform that meets the needs of the unmanned aircraft market by providing a low-cost, low-power mobile auto-tracking antenna....
TSA Lets Weapons Slip Through Screening 95% Of Cases
Since its creation almost 14 years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had one goal...
Mini and micro BlueBird UAVs: Eye in the sky
BlueBird is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
Natural disasters, e.g. a flood, an earthquake,...
How drones are helping the Nepal earthquake relief effort
Drones are proving a crucial high-tech tool for aid workers in the aftermath of the devastating Nepal earthquake. With the death toll from Saturday’s...
FST21 Helps Organization Secure Facilities
FST21 America offers a platform that combines facial and voice recognition with behavior monitoring to determine who is authorized to enter a facility.
There...
HoverLite: New Intelligence gathering solution
Stark Aerospace, a U.S subsidiary of IAI, has unveiled the HoverLite tactical tethered hovering aerial ISR system. This is a new hovering intelligence gathering...
The IDF operates robots for border security, intelligence gathering missions and...
The IDF is the first army in the world to operationally deploy robots to secure the border, gather tactical intelligence, clear roads, and to...
New UAVs to Detect Radiation and Chemical Agents
FlyCam UAV launched two new UAVs. The Cypher 6, a commercial-grade hexacopter, and the NEO, an all-weather commercial co-axial octocopter. The new developments can...
Westerners that join ISIS – a big terror threat
Of the 10,000 foreign fighters who have already joined militant groups in Syria and Iraq, 3,000 hold European or other Western passports, making it...
Improvised Explosive Detection – New Approach
On the first floor of the Robert H. Mollohan Research Facility is a small team of researchers who are quietly developing a new, game-changing...
Israeli Air Force UAV’s Are in the Air 24/7
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) are flying around the clock, and this requires more operational flexibility.
From mini...
U.S. Government Examines Security Equipment for Law Enforcement
The National Institute of Justice is gathering market research data from vendors of two different kinds of security technologies, body-worn cameras and person-screening portals,...
The FBI’s cliometric Next Generation Identification system
The FBI has integrated the latest addition to its Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which delivers new tools designed to improve the Bureau's capability...
The unmanned aerial sentries of the U.S.-Mexican border
Unmanned air systems (UAS) are very active in controlling the border between the U.S and Mexico
Since 2000, the number of Border Patrol agents on...
Biometrics – The Solution for IoT Security
Biometrics and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies represent a symbiotic match that together will drive further IoT adoption, according to techzone360.com evaluation.
The IoT market...
Advanced Explosive Detection Equipment to Enhance Airports Security
The Japanese government has provided airport security equipment worth US$ 20 million for three major international airports in Pakistan .
The equipment to Islamabad, Lahore...
IED Detection – Have Trained K9 Finished their Role?
The current threat environment of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) concealed on persons, in vehicles, and in the mail poses challenges for traditional explosive detection...
Image Recognition – Can Computers be Fooled?
Cornell researchers have found that like humans, computers based on machine learning can be fooled by optical illusions, which raises security concerns.
Cornell graduate student...
Chemical Identification, Now a Basic Capability
FLIR Systems has recently announced the Griffin G510 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS). The device is essentially a first person-portable chemical identifier. The FLIR Griffin...
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...
Yet Another Airport Security Failure in the U.S
In yet another demonstration of the weakness of US airport security, a man nearly managed to board a flight with a stolen boarding pass....
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