Somali pirates hijack yacht
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...
View ArticleUS DoD “Implementation Directive for Better Buying Power”
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...
View ArticleExperts Skeptical On Export Control Reform
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...
View ArticleDHS USCG and CBP Collaborative Effort Stop Maritime Smuggling Attempt
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...
View ArticleGD Awarded MDA Contract
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...
View ArticleGermany Considers Loosening Arms Export Controls
“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...
View ArticleCyber Defence will be the same for Military and Civil environment ?
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...
View ArticleNATO’s new Strategic Concept
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 NATO...
View ArticleNATO’s new Strategic Concept
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...
View ArticleBoeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System
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...
View ArticleCyber war and cyber power. Issues for NATO doctrine.
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...
View ArticleTechnical woes halt some Iran nuclear machines
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....
View ArticleAlternative to TSA pat-downs: More background checks
JOSH GERSTEIN in the Washington’s Politico describes a new trend to improve the “screening capability” by use of a new “big brother” facility: for sure different aspects of privacy should be explored...
View ArticleTSA Begins Testing New Advanced Imaging Technology Software
TSA to begin testing new Advanced Imaging Technology Software at select U.S. Airports to further enhance passenger privacy The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin testing new...
View ArticleUS DHS Awards Contract to AS&E
American Science and Engineering, Inc. (“AS&E”) a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced a research and development contract award under the U.S. Department...
View ArticleTSA to conduct employee threat assessments
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced channeling service provider agreements with three award recipients: American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), L-1 and Telos ID....
View ArticleTSA Plan to Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006,...
View ArticleTSA Pre✓™ Pilot to Expand to Busiest US Airports
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole today announced the expansion of TSA Pre✓™, a passenger...
View ArticleU.S. DHS ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT OF 2009 UPDATE
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is an effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country...
View ArticleQuestion to FAA on Privacy of Drones
Lawmakers questioned the Federal Aviation Administration’s plan to test allowing drones to fly beside commercial airplanes in U.S. airspace. The FAA is planning a pilot program that would allow...
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