Category Security & Threat Management

Critical & Emerging Technologies, Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management

Urban Warfare and urban terrorism are the greatest future security threat, require new tactics and technologies being developed and tested

Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels. Boko Haram is carrying out its urban terror campaign against the Nigerian Army and its…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 21, 2022

Army & Land, Security & Threat Management

DARPA SubT developed tunnel warfare technologies to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground tunnels employed for missile and nuclear arsenal

In recent years, underground settings are becoming increasingly relevant to global security and safety. Factors such as rising populations and urbanization are requiring military and civilian first responders to perform their duties in below-ground conditions, in human-made tunnels, underground urban…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 5, 2022

Comm. & Networking, Security & Threat Management

Critical communications broadband capabilities

Public safety organizations and many other professionals need to communicate when coordinating operations and tasks. Critical Communication is essential to react and respond effectively and at the core of the functioning of emergency services. Critical communications include mobile, radio telecommunication systems…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 7, 2022

Photonics, Security & Threat Management

Quantum enhanced LIDAR will help reduce environmentally damaging methane leaks from the oil and gas industry

In purely economic terms, methane leaks from well-heads and pipelines cost the oil and gas industry between $6bn and $30bn a year. In the US, methane leaks from the natural gas and petroleum industry are now the number one source…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 6, 2022

Material, Security & Threat Management, Weapons & Munitions

Ion beam accelerator for nuclear device characterization, detection of contraband materials, and Directed energy weapons

Ion beam accelerators are machines providing kinetic energy to charged particles called ions, which bombard the target sample – the material to be irradiated and subsequently analyzed. The target can be a thin foil or a piece of mineral, rubber,…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 15, 2022

Security & Threat Management

DARPA ‘s PROTEUS urban combat software allows Marine commanders to explore and develop new multidomain fighting concepts

Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels. Urban warfare is fundamentally unchanged since World War I in many regards: battle is…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 23, 2022

Cyber & Information Warfare, Security & Threat Management

Growing threat of Cryptocurrency in terrorism for terror financing

Modern terrorist attacks display increasingly sophisticated ICT skills in both conducting their attacks and communicating them globally through digital technologies, combined with, in some cases, an awareness of counter-intelligence measures, largely enabled by Web 2.0. The Paris attackers displayed the…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 19, 2022

Defence & Military Systems, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Security & Threat Management

Modernization of military intelligence spying and espionage

Intelligence, in military science, information concerning an enemy or an area. The term is also used for an agency that gathers such information. Military intelligence is as old as warfare itself. Even in biblical times, Moses sent spies to live with…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 14, 2022

Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management

Media Manipulation strategies and techniques

Media manipulation is a series of related techniques in which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular interests. Such tactics may include the use of logical fallacies, psychological manipulations, outright deception (disinformation), rhetorical and propaganda techniques, and…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 11, 2022

Security & Threat Management, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

Security forces require throwable robots that can send video of inside buildings

Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels. The terrorists resort to Asymmetric Warfare exploiting the limitations and vulnerabilities of high-tech weapons…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 1, 2022