HLS Trainers and simulators
Israel’s Home Front Command is using a trainer and simulator enabling search and rescue forces to train and simulate emergency scenarios, city streets, war...
Does the intelligence community really get Hadoop?
The intelligence community is collecting more data than ever. But does that mean the intelligence gleaned from these massive new stores of data is...
Fighting Ebola using drones
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and the Center of Disease Control both estimate that the death toll due to Ebola might exceed...
New generation bunker-busting bombs
The US is secretly developing a new generation of bunker-busters. The prevailing assessment is that these bombs may be required in the framework of...
“Balance of terror” to replace “nuclear ambiguity”
The fact that Iran is rapidly advancing along the dangerous track of developing its nuclear capability, thereby posing a strategic threat to Israel's existence,...
Safe city: Ramat Hasharon, Israel – and Nanded, India
Two Israeli companies are in charge of Safe City project.
Ramat Hasharon (- northern suburb of Tel Aviv), Israel, has nearly 50 thousand residents. Nanded,...
The $1,200 machine that lets anyone make a metal gun at...
When Cody Wilson revealed the world’s first fully 3D printed gun last year, he showed that the “maker” movement has enabled anyone to create...
Euclid: UAV command and control from a ground station
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) deployed on combat missions complete with aerial imaging or bombing (using a combat payload) are usually operated from afar by...
Could the Ebola virus become a bio-terrorist threat?
Lawmakers and infectious disease experts are examining whether terrorists could use Ebola to deliberately infect and wreak psychological havoc on an unsuspecting population. This...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or recipe for failure? Part 3
The first part of this series listed the federal and military intelligence organizations and their respective roles. The second part focused on the drawbacks of...
The defense industry is expanding the use of 3D printing
The Pentagon and the defense industry are rapidly expanding the use of 3D printing to make parts and tools for more sophisticated military equipment. The Obama...
New quadcopters arrive just as FAA eases its ban on camera...
Just in time for new US rules allowing drones for movie-making, a Toronto startup is launching a campaign to send swarms of lightweight cameras...
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...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or recipe for failure? Part 2
The first part in this series on multiple intelligence agencies in the US listed 17 different bodies and cited their huge, cumulative, annual budget...
Da-Vinci, a compact, lightweight VTOL sUAS
Flying Production Ltd., a leader in the design and development of Defense and HLS solutions – including Multi-Rotor Platforms – just announced it will...
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...
Retired senior German defense ministry official: “Turkey is on its way...
The German intelligence services have credible information according to which "Turkey is headed towards its own nuclear bomb". This is revealed in an interview...
Multiple intelligence agencies: a blessing or a recipe for failure? Part...
The US, the most powerful country on earth, has an intelligence community comprising 17 major intelligence agencies: CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), FBI (Federal Bureau...
Incredible close-up drone video of an erupting volcano in Iceland
This epic video isn’t a CGI outtake from Lord of the Rings. It’s proof that a guy with a quadcopter managed to get very, very...
Fast Draw – ISIS
What do the astonishing, shameful security gaffs in the White House and in the protection of President Obama have in common with the "war"...
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...
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5G-in-a-Box: A Fast Fix for Disaster and Defense Missions
Large-scale emergencies often trigger a secondary crisis: the sudden loss of communications. Floods, fires, earthquakes, or cyberattacks can knock out established infrastructure within minutes,...
