Survivability & Protection

The recent downing of Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt has once again brought to the forelight a major issue facing modern airliners: planes are...

Radioactive materials are routinely used at hospitals for diagnosing and treating diseases, at construction sites for inspecting welding seams, and in research facilities. Cobalt-60,...

Raytheon Company is developing a new technology to provide extensive situational awareness for soldiers inside windowless armored vehicles, as part of the Defense Advanced...

Israel’s Armored Corps in the years to come: Hybrid engines (fuel and electricity), new types of ammunition, cyber warfare, passive protection and also: the...

New technologies applied by the US Army could help coping with various training problems. The US Marines have been facing a new sort of...

According to Yahoo News the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) shift back to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado, is designed to safeguard the...

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...

An official report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the U.S. government is not fully prepared to handle nuclear terrorist attacks...

The Israeli defense forces (IDF) are making ’a wide ranging effort’ to protect GPS systems from Jamming. Some Israeli companies are involved in the...

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,...

IMI is displaying at the AUSA Annual Convention a range of combat systems addressing the requirements of modern land forces, including the US Army....

With the advent of technological development and the significant reduction in the cost of video end user devices, one would be hard pressed to...

Science fiction or reality: Vision-guided humanoid robot and UAV work in tandem to fight fires. Get the whole story right here. As part of an...

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...

Kaspersky Lab discovers the ancestor of Stuxnet and Flame – powerful threat actor with an absolute dominance in terms of cyber-tools and techniques. For several...

Some of the weapons and ammunition that were airdropped by the coalition aircraft fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria , missed the planned drop...

Water-Gen - a provider of tactical water supply solutions to Armies, Police Forces, and NGOs - will introduce the next generations of its SPRING...

These days, we finished building the command post vehicle for the firefighting services, which is the national command post. The vehicle was built in...

Scenes from science fiction movies are slowly but surely becoming a reality. U.S. Scientists are working on next-gen combat gear for soldiers inspired by...

The Carrington event was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm that hit the Earth 156 years ago. Unlike now, back then electricity did not rule...

A new smartwatch app helps navigate vessels. The free app supplies instant information about potential collisions, anchor drag or man overboard on the smartwatch....

In this Weekly Report (16 September 2014): Firefighting in Greece The Italian Army is evaluating an unlimited aerial surveillance system for real-time convoy protection ISIS plans to launch...