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...
This Could Be the Future of Battlefield Robotics
The floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., was an obstacle course this week, as the Association of the United...
US: the Federal Bureau of Prisons introduces Millimeter Wave Scanner
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is examining a new technology for its security details, a millimeter wave scanner, designed to screen visitors, internees and...
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...
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...
Is Data the Best Preparation Against Natural Disasters?
Big Data and Open data and analytics have become fundamental tools in disaster preparedness, experts say. But public officials aren't using them enough.
Lucy Jones,...
Counter IED and Mine System unveiled
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled its new CIMS (Counter IED and Mine Suite) - an integrated suite of sensors for protection of tactical maneuvering...
Microsoft says NSA spying hit trust in the cloud
A senior Microsoft spokesman says that government surveillance has damaged trust in the cloud and in the company itself, pushing the latter to focus...
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...
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...
New to the army: Hovermast
Hovermast is a new means for providing stabilized real-time aerial surveillance, to forces maneuvering along the battlefield. It is currently being tested and assessed...
Instant Eye
Developed by Andover, Massachusetts-based Physical Sciences, the Instant Eye aerial drone is designed to improve situational awareness during disaster response efforts.
The GPS-enabled Unmanned Aerial...
Zephyr UAV continues to break records
The solar-powered, high-altitude long endurance (HALE) UAV previously known as the Qinetiq Zephyr, which is now part of the Airbus High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS)...
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...
iHLS TV – Ebola, domestic extremism, Shellshock bug, new octocopter and...
In this weekly report (7 October 2014):
Ebola as seen from space
Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse,
Hackers unleash Shellshock bug
New octocopter UAS
Darpa looking into the...
Does Israel keep capitulating to foreign demands?
The terrorist organization ISIS might introduce aircraft hijacking as part of its war against the West. Will this new situation provide Israel's Transport Ministry...
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...
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This Drone Hunts Hidden Radars Before an Airstrike
Modern air defense systems are becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. Long before an aircraft reaches its target, ground-based radars can detect, track and coordinate...
