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While unmanned aerial vehicles are common in the skies above Afghanistan and Iraq, they have been flown sparingly in the United States because of strict Federal Aviation Administration rules regulating national airspace. Police agencies...
Manchester Airport’s Terminal One hi-techface recognition gates were suspended after they allowed a man back into the country on his wife’s passport. It is understood an immigration officer double-checking the data on a computer...
Tajani: Impressive numbers. There is common concern about issues Despite the improvements, said the vice president of the EU Commission and Chairman of the Committee for Transport (designated for that industry), Antonio Tajani, “the...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped a drug smuggling attempt when they detected 640 pounds of marijuana with the aid of a high-tech X-ray machine. On Jan. 26 at approximately 2:30 p.m., CBP...
Brazil is planning to spend $6 billion (10 billion reais) on a new project to protect its borders against smuggling and arms trafficking, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported on Sunday. The so-called Sisfron...
Iran has been experiencing significant technical problems with equipment in its uranium enrichment drive and temporarily shut down some of its centrifuge machines, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. One senior diplomat said Iran acted...
For some time, terms prefixed with “cyber” have tended to become buzzwords in the international security debate. Cyberwar, cyber attacks and cyber threats were frequently mentioned in the discussions on NATO’s new Strategic Concept...
The system identifies when friendly forces are being monitored or targeted by cameras, binoculars, sniper scopes or other optical means The Boeing Company announced it has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable...
Click here to download the full document – : The new NATO Strategic Concept reconfirms the commitment to defend one another against attack as the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security and will serve as the Alliance’s...
Click here to download a PDF version of the document. – The document lays out NATO’s vision for an evolving Alliance that will remain able to defend its members against modern threats and commits...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that potential cyber attacks poses a “huge” future threat that should be tackled through joint efforts by military and civilian agencies. “There is a huge future threat and there...
“Eurofighter,” “Leopard,” Submarine Class 214: Germany is the third largest weapons exporter in the world, despite restrictive guidelines. Now the federal government wants to make arms sales abroad even easier to make up for...
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, is one of five awardees selected by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to provide systems engineering and testing services under the Missile Defense Agency...
A collaborative effort between officers of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents resulted in the arrest of 23 foreign nationals early yesterday morning off the San Diego coastline....
Support for Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ export-control reform initiative is not robust within the cabinet agencies with authority over international weapons sales, according to a panel of experts on U.S. export policy. Suzanne Palmer,...
In early 2010, the Defense Department began a comprehensive effort to increase efficiencies, reduce overhead costs, and eliminate redundant functions in order to improve the effectiveness of the DoD enterprise. This effort is focused...
The European Union’s anti-piracy mission said that on Nov,7 pirates had hijacked a yacht on the Indian Ocean, off the Seychelles and that one of its passengers had been taken in by a warship. Local...
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Victoria (A387), under the command of Captain Rob Dorey, boarded, cleared and destroyed a suspected pirate vessel. Fort Victoria is currently deployed as part of a special counter-piracy operation...
Raytheon Co. has acquired Trusted Computer Solutions, a Herndon, Va., provider of cross-domain, operating system and network security solutions. Financial terms were not reported. The acquisition of the private company is the seventh transaction...
It’s been years of work and waiting, but for Marinette Marine Corp. employees, a Navy decision this week to buy 20 littoral combat ships from two contractors is a welcome relief. Congressional approval for...