Category Global Risks & Future Threats

Avalanches, the most destructive natural hazards threatening human life, and built structures in mountainous regions, require accurate early warning and predicition systems

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Snow avalanches are among the most destructive natural hazards threatening human life, ecosystems, built structures, and landscapes in mountainous regions.   Avalanches and landslides are common in Himalayan Kashmir. Avalanches have caused some of the heaviest tolls for the Indian…...

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Risind threat of rising Mass shooting incidents, Security Forces deploying technologies AI based Gunfire detection systems, and imaging radars

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Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1-in-370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence. That’s almost 50% more likely than the lifetime odds of dying while riding inside a…...

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Growing threat of uncrackable communications by criminals and terrorists to plot or commit crimes with impunity enabled by advanced encryption technology

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Federal law enforcement authorities in the U.S., as well as governments worldwide, face a continuing dilemma as a result of encryption, the everyday tool meant to protect our privacy.  After the terrible mass murders in Dayton, Ohio, the FBI struggled…...

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Border Agents can fight the Threat of Drug trafficking networks by portable Drug Detection Devices that can identify drugs within seconds

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Criminal networks traffic a range of drugs including cannabis, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.  As international borders become increasingly porous, global abuse and accessibility to drugs have become increasingly widespread.   This international trade involves growers, producers, couriers, suppliers and dealers.…...

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One of biggest threat to aerospace and defense electronics for deep space missions is radiation

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One of the biggest threats to the deployed aerospace and defense electronics systems is radiation. Outside the protective cover of the Earth’s atmosphere, the solar system is filled with radiation. The natural space environment consists of electrons and protons trapped by…...

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ISIS still a threat to the US and the World capable of wreaking havoc and bloodshed

ISIS Threat New Years

In spite of repeated assertions by Trump of his administration’s success in defeating the terrorist organization and destroying its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, experts still think that ISIS remains a threat. While ISIS’s so-called “caliphate” has been destroyed,…...

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Water Scarcity: A Ticking Time Bomb for Conflict That Threatens Half the World’s Population by 2050

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Water is the most precious resource for sustaining life and survival of living world, but we are losing fresh water at an astonishing rate: Climate change is resulting in disappearing of glaciers and severe droughts, groundwater being pumped out faster…...

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DARPA’s Friend or Foe to quickly identify both naturally occurring and adversary engineered bio-threats (pathogens) for force protection

Bacteria underpin much of our world, acting behind the scenes to affect the health and behavior of animals and plants. They help produce food, provide oxygen, and even reshape the environment through a vast array of biological processes. They come…...

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Hacking of Electronic Voting Machines is a threat to Democracy, DARPA Is Building a Open Source, Secure Voting System

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The introduction of the electronic voting machines in India at the turn of the century  had aided in  reducing instances of capturing of polling stations and stuffing of ballot boxes by mobs hired by political parties. Using data from state elections,…...

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Scientists discovering new alternatives to ease demand for scarce Rare-Earth minerals

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REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust that are essential components of many technologies, including electronics, computer and communication systems, transportation, health care, and national defense. Rare Earths Elements (REE) are incorporated into many sophisticated…...

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