Surveillance

Low-flying choppers are ‘conducting surveillance projects’

May 21, 2013

Source: WTVR Helicopter blades are still piercing the air and rattling the nerves of one Chesterfield woman. “It was green, no words on it from what I could see, no special symbols, but, what looked like two guns on the front,” says Mekelle Ford. She continues to see what appear to be military choppers, flying [...]

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Killer robots instead of soldiers?

May 21, 2013

Source: DW Increasingly, drones and robots are being used in combat to replace soldiers in high-risk situations. Some researchers and politicians are concerned that, in future, autonomous machines may reign over life and death. A Pentagon video shows a fighter jet taking off from a US aircraft carrier. At first glance, the maneuver is unspectacular. [...]

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Afghan Special Operation Forces to Start Conducting Spy Flights

May 15, 2013

Source: USN Afghan special operations will start conducting their own spy missions with new fixed wing aircraft, a top U.S. commando in Afghanistan said Wednesday, adding another critical stepping stone to allow the U.S. to withdraw by 2014. The U.S. has begun supplying Afghan forces with Swiss-made PC-12 planes, and training local forces to conduct [...]

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‘Minority Report’ policing comes to the UK

May 15, 2013

Source: Telegraph Kent Police is using computer software to analyse historic offending and criminal behaviour to try and pinpoint where crimes will happen next. It is an echo of the Tom Cruise science fiction film Minority Report in which “pre-crime” units use psychics to predict future criminals and arrest them before they have even offended. [...]

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Russia set to conduct surveillance flyover to inspect Canada’s military, industrial infrastructure

May 6, 2013

Source: NP The Russians are conducting what has quietly become their annual flyover of key Canadian sites this week, revealing the two countries’ regular surveillance of one another at a time when a spy scandal and Arctic sovereignty have markedly strained relations. Russia has routinely exercised a 10-year-old treaty right to fly over Canada and [...]

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Military Photographers Ready to Deploy Around the Globe

April 22, 2013

Source: FAS Just as law enforcement relied upon surveillance cameras and personal photography to enable the prompt identification of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing, U.S. armed forces increasingly look to the collection of still and motion imagery to support military operations. Combat camera (COMCAM) capabilities support “operational planning, public affairs, information operations, mission assessment, forensic, [...]

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‘Jordan opens skies for IAF drones flying to Syria’

April 22, 2013

Source: JP Jordan has opened two corridors of its airspace to Israeli Air Force drones seeking to monitor the ongoing conflict in Syria, French daily Le Figaro reported on Sunday, citing a Western military source in the Middle East. According to the report, Jordanian King Abdullah made the decision in March during US President Barack Obama’s visit [...]

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Air-Sea Battle endures amidst strategic review

April 5, 2013

Source: DoDBuzz Via: StratRisks The U.S. military’s much-discussed AirSea Battle will remain a priority in light of rising tensions with North Korea, ongoing military strategy assessments and continued budget constraints, Pentagon officials said. In fact, Air-Sea Battle officials specifically said sequestration will in no way impede the development or continued importance of the Air-Sea Battle operating [...]

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US to ‘rebalance’ its military in Asia Pacific: Pentagon

March 21, 2013

Source: ZN Washington: As part of its “rebalance”, in Asia Pacific, the US is all set to deploy additional military resources, including more aircraft careers and fighter jets, in the region, a top Pentagon official has said.”Our rebalance means that a higher proportion of our assets will be in the region,” the Deputy Defence Secretary, [...]

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Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa

March 21, 2013

Source: WP The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this West African capital, blasted by 110-degree heat and the occasional sandstorm blowing from the Sahara. The U.S. Air Force began flying a handful of unarmed Predator drones from here last month. The gray, mosquito-shaped aircraft emerge [...]

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Amazon Web Services to build CIA spook cloud

March 19, 2013

Source:FCW In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the [...]

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Moscow Plans Rapid Reaction Forces and Professional Soldiers – endemic of corruption

March 12, 2013

Source: Jamestown Foundation Moscow’s plans to reform and modernize its conventional Armed Forces have become encased in experiment, indecision, bureaucracy and secrecy. Since Army-General Sergei Shoigu was appointed as the defense minister in November 2012, the “reform” has officially stayed “on course,” while numerous instances of revision or quiet abandonment of many of the Anatoly [...]

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Researchers print flexible electronic tattoo directly onto human skin

March 11, 2013

Source: Extreme Tech From the research lab that brought us stick-on electronic tattoos, and recently the stretchable battery, we now have the first electronic sensor that has been printed directly onto human skin. These sensors can directly measure skin hydration and temperature, and electric signals from muscle and brain activity. The skin-printable sensors, created by [...]

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Tajikistan regions still at war

March 5, 2013

Source: ATimes Fifteen years have passed since a peace agreement which ended a five-year long civil war in Tajikistan. Fought between regional groups and the national government of president Rahmon Nabiyev, the conflict killed between 50,000 and 100,000 and displaced more than a million. Presidential elections scheduled for the fall offer an opportunity to reflect [...]

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DARPA looks to use small ships as drone bases

March 4, 2013

Source: IET The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) programme to combine the strengths of both land- and sea-based approaches to supporting airborne assets. TERN envisions using smaller ships as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) fixed-wing unmanned aircraft (UAVs). Named after the family [...]

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Chinese CIA spy unveils power struggle between security ministries

February 25, 2013

Source: WCT Last year’s failed defection attempt by an official from the Chinese Ministry of State Security has uncovered a bitter and long-standing power struggle between China’s state security and public security organs, reports Boxun, an overseas Chinese community website providing alternative source of news from China. In May last year, the secretary of state [...]

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Raytheon’s RIOT program tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour

February 10, 2013

Source: Guardian A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people [...]

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S. Korea pushes for deployment of military spy satellites to strengthen surveillance capabilities

February 6, 2013

Source: Yonhap News The South Korean military is pushing to deploy spy satellites to strengthen its surveillance of North Korea, a senior military official said Wednesday, in light of growing missile and nuclear threats from the communist country. South Korea currently operates Arirang-3, a multipurpose satellite, which provides geographical information on the Korean Peninsula including North [...]

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U.K. spy agencies plan to install Web snooping ‘black boxes’

February 5, 2013

Source: ZDNET The ‘black box’ snooping devices would also be used to collect data from overseas companies, including U.S.-based service providers and social networks, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The U.K.’s intelligence agencies are planning to install ‘black box’-style surveillance devices in the country’s telecommunications infrastructure to monitor the U.K.’s online activity. According to [...]

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Drone robots to add more teeth to anti-Maoist operations

February 3, 2013

Source: Times of India After drone missiles of the US military, drone robots will come to the help of Indian security forces in anti-insurgency operations. The robots are being developed at a research institution in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, which has already developed another land surveillance robot and a mind sensing robot that can read the [...]

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Nano helicopter drone for UK troops in Afghanistan

February 3, 2013

Source: BBC The drones can fly around corners and obstacles to identify potential hidden dangers, the Ministry of Defence said.The Norwegian-designed Black Hornet Nano features a tiny camera and relays video and still images to a handheld control terminal. It measures about 10cm by 2.5cm (4in by 1in) and weighs 16g (0.6oz).The MoD, which also [...]

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Australia ‘critical’ for US Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean pivot

February 1, 2013

Editor Notes: Pentagon’s strategic calculus is to concentrate military operations(lily pads)/naval fleets/equipment in the Asia-Pacific region to maintain control over major shipping/trade lanes, strategic chokepoints (Strait of Malacca), protect national security interests i.e. hydrocarbons- major oil and LNG reserves. The competing interest: China , Russia and India . Control the supply and demand of natural resources: Resource [...]

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Japan to launch spy satellite to monitor North Korea

January 23, 2013

Source: Business Line Japan is to launch a new spy satellite on Sunday to strengthen its monitoring capabilities amid concern that North Korea may carry out more missile and nuclear tests. A rocket carrying a radar-equipped satellite is scheduled to blast off from a space centre at Tanegashima in the southwest, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has [...]

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Mali: the danger of mission creep on al-Qaida’s new frontier

January 15, 2013

Editors Notes: Key sentence at the end of the article ” The big question is whether the conflict in Mali spills over the unnatural colonial boundaries dividing the many, and some mineral-rich, countries of west Africa”. A French counterinsurgency operation to push back Islamist, protect human rights and reinstate democracy? Control drug routes in west [...]

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Turkish National Intelligence Organization [MIT] Wants Control Over Telecom Authority

January 5, 2013

Source: Al Monitor Following the disclosure by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that eavesdropping bugs were discovered in his office, one of the first items of the year’s legal agenda will be to regulate the use of such devices. Minister of Communications Binali Yildirim said his ministry is working together with the Ministry of Justice [...]

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Analysis: U.S. arms sales to Asia set to boom on Pacific “pivot”

January 1, 2013

Source: Reuters U.S. sales of warplanes, anti-missile systems and other costly weapons to China’s and North Korea’s neighbors appear set for significant growth amid regional security jitters. Strengthening treaty allies and other security partners is central to the White House’s “pivot” toward a Pacific region jolted by maritime territorial disputes in China’s case, and missile [...]

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Global Reconnaissance: U.S. moves to sell advanced spy drones to South Korea

December 25, 2012

Source: Reuters The Obama administration formally proposed a controversial sale of advanced spy drones to help South Korea bear more of its defense from any attack by the heavily armed North. Seoul has requested a possible $1.2 billion sale of four Northrop Grumman Corp RQ-4 “Global Hawk” remotely piloted aircraft with enhanced surveillance capabilities, the [...]

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Army developing next-generation surveillance aircraft

December 19, 2012

Source: Army.mil Army scientists, engineers and program developers are making substantial progress building and integrating a technically sophisticated battlefield surveillance aircraft called Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System in a laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., service officials said. The initial task, now underway at Aberdeen’s Joint Test and Integration Facility, is aimed at [...]

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Report: Israel Operating Bases in Eritrea

December 12, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva Israel has been monitoring activities in Iran by operating bases in Eritrea, a report by Stratfor Global Intelligence said Tuesday. The report said that Eritrea, located on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, has become an arena of operations for both Israel and Iran, as both are trying to bolster their [...]

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