Technology News
New lightweight Armor
Stark Aerospace has recently unveiled ProtectLite Armor, a cost effective lightweight, highly resilient, survivability solution at the 2014 AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, being...
Navy Debuts Unmanned Robotic Boats with New Swarm Capability
The technology gives a glimpse of how the Navy could man and equip itself in the decades ahead. An unmanned seven-meter rigid hulled inflatable...
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...
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 Darpa night vision gear
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...
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...
DARPA seeks a better way to see in the dark
DARPA is looking for the next generation of wearable night vision gear.
The goal is to design night vision gear that is smaller and lighter...
FirstNet Releases RFI, Budget
Announcements by the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) show progress at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), an independent authority...
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...
Making drones more customizable
A first-ever standard “operating system” for drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design and customize unmanned aerial...
US Army to deploy Mind-Controlled UAS
Scientists are working on the technology to control drones using their brains. While they are starting out with small helicopter drones, the eventual goal...
Israeli Counter-Sniper Systems
Snipers fired on the Israeli army in Gaza and they may soon be a threat in northern Israel. The Israeli industry has developed some...
Four DARPA projects that could change the world
Forty years ago, a group of researchers with military money set out to test the wacky idea of making computers talk to one another...
iHLS TV – Chinese hackers, China earthquake, Missouri police, car safety, Yankee Stadium metal detectors
Articles and issues discussed in this week’s report:
Chinese hacker indicted
Flying cameras assist first responders in latest China earthquake
Missouri police militarization
Car safety: collision prevention system...
Ambulances go high-tech to prevent crashes
In an emergency, every second counts. But driving at high speeds can compromise the safety of first responders and civilians.
There is a new device...
iHLS TV: Al-Qaeda, China vs Microsoft, new QinetiQ surveillance systems, terrorists using social media
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
New mobile passport control app available
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced the launch of the first authorized app to expedite a traveler’s entry process into the U.S.
Mobile...
Face recognition technologies improving dramatically
Who is that stranger in your social media photo? A click on the face reveals the name in seconds, almost as soon as you...
This Phone Will Self Destruct in 10, 9, 8…
The Pentagon wants its top research arm to give troops some self-destructing devices. Military leaders want to develop semiconductors and computer chips that will...
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