War on drugs: Mexican security and armored cars industry are flourishing.

More than 3 1/2 years after President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels, the pace of killings has increased and 2010 is on track to be the deadliest yet in a campaign that has already claimed as many as 28,000 lives.
While the insecurity has put a damper on business [...]

Europe willing to export & transfer military high tech “know how” to Brazil & other development markets.

With government budgets across Europe set to shrink significantly in the coming years, the parent company of Airbus predicted that the group’s military business would become increasingly focused on markets in Asia, Latin America and the Persian Gulf and it hinted that the outsourcing of European aerospace jobs to those regions was all but inevitable.
“It [...]

Terahertz, the new answer to terrorism.

Newark, U.S.- On this particular day at NJIT (New Jersey Science and Technology University), the focus of one of the top technological minds in the country is on cork.
It is a single cork, from Portugal, where 320 million pounds of bottle stoppers are produced every year. The billion-dollar cork industry is [...]

Unmmaned war is the new trend among prime contractors and Obama´s administration

Merger and acquisition activity in the defense industry is heating up, and is expected to far surpass the deal volume last year as larger companies target smaller ones with niche technologies.

The Obama administration’s decision to move funding from traditional weapons to areas of unmanned war is pushing prime contractors to [...]

Armored VIP Passenger Vehicles

A civilian armored car is a security vehicle which made by replacing the windows of a standard vehicle (typically a limousine or SUV) with bulletproof glass and inserting layers of
armor plate into the body panels. Unlike a military armored car, which has armor plate mounted on the outside of the vehicle, a civilian armoured car [...]

“Iris on the Move ” Biometric technology: identification at the distance will be used in airports and security checkpoints.

Biometric technology has taken new strides toward identification of moving people at distances of up to 10 feet, making all previous biometric technologies for establishing identity seem outmoded or in need of upgrading.
Sarnoff Corporation, the company behind the innovative technology, said the award-winning “Iris on the Move” system had demonstrated that [...]