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)...
Elbit unveils innovative flight system
Elbit Systems recently completed a series of successful helicopter flight tests in Zurich, using the SkyVis Day/Night Head Mounted Display (HMD) onboard an AW-109SP...
RFID-reading drone in UAE
RFID-Reading drone tracks structural steel products in storage yard.
Age Steel, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company that operates steel yards in Dubai, has taken...
Civic Apps: Can They Help Fight Crime?
In 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled the police department’s latest application programming interface called ClearMap, used to handle anything from wanted lists and...
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...
The advent of the electronic nose
It is hardly a secret that when some people visit their family members or friends in prison, they have been to known to smuggle...
Baltimore installs technology to prohibit cellphone access
A new technology installed at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC) will crack down on contraband cell phone use at the facility. Calls are...
Recording calls to improve service – is that really so?
AT&T announced it was introducing a pilot system to its Customer Service Relations (CSR) for recording customers' calls as well as analyzing content and...
Mobile phone-detecting drones serve as disaster relief aids
US drone maker teams with European disaster relief firm to help make it easier to find victims in times of need US drone maker...
iHLS TV Intelligence Edition – OSINT
OSINT: Open Source Intelligence enables intercepting both terrorists and criminals and thwarting their activities
Local Cops in the U.S use Super Spy Bug
Privacy? Gone forever.
Police in Tacoma, Washington, bought - and quietly used for six years - surveillance equipment that can sweep up records of every...
iHLS TV Intelligence Edition – Cellphone Spying
Germany's BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), Federal Intelligence Service, wiretapped Hillary Clinton's cellphone during her recent visit to Berlin
iHLS TV Special Edition: Data Visualization, SIGINT, counter-espionage and counter-terror surveillance
A review of counter-espionage and counter-terror intelligence agencies use to intercept suspects' cellular, data and internet activities
Unmanned aircraft used to survey Hawaii wildlife
The first of two scheduled deployments of unmanned aircraft systems over the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands showed they can be used to conduct research without...
iHLS TV: Al-Qaeda, China vs Microsoft, new QinetiQ surveillance systems, terrorists...
Articles and issues discussed in this week’s report:
Al-Qaeda financing sources
China vs Microsoft
QinetiQ's new airborne communications surveillance systems
Terrorists using social media
NSA eavesdropping as business opportunity
To many Americans, online eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency is an outrage, a threat to privacy and freedom. To some, it's a business opportunity.
A small but...
The FBI just used facial recognition to catch a fugitive of...
A recent FBI case has proved that the bureau's facial recognition systems works.
The story starts with a fugitive, Neil Stammer, who had been on...
The technology behind modern intelligence
The modern world we live in dictates the use of many modes of electronic communications: Wired and cellular communications, surfing the internet, sending e-mails,...
iHLS TV – Protecting Israel’s Natural Gas Reservoirs
A review of Israel's offshore security systems, defending its #underwater natural #gas reservoirs.
Terrain Dominance – The civil aspect: Crowd control at huge events
The horror scenario of evacuating tens of thousands of residents living near hazardous materials facilities, refineries or military industries requires an immediate control capabilities...
Israeli Safe-City Tech in Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third largest in the UK with over 600,000 people. This commercial center will also soon play...
New, Advanced U.S. Surveillance Balloons
The U.S. Army is developing 80-yard long surveillance balloons that can pinpoint targets from beyond-the-horizon by floating up to 10,000-feet in the sky and...
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This Combat Robot Just Fired Anti-Tank Missiles During Live Trials
Integrating heavy weapons onto compact robotic ground vehicles has become a growing focus for modern militaries, but the engineering challenge is significant. Small unmanned...
