DARPA looking to develop ultra-fast laser technology for detection and communications

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  communications The Defense Department’s technology developers want help in developing laser technology that could exponentially amp up radar scanning, secure communications, supercharge explosives and chemical detection systems, as well as provide extremely detailed medical images. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)  said on Aug. 8 it was seeking proposals […]

CBP’s Chicago lab wants laser system to develop latent fingerprints

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  border_security U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s laboratory in Chicago, which processes thousands of latent fingerprints each year in support of criminal cases pursued by Homeland Security Investigations, plans to purchase one portable TraceER forensic laser system built by Coherent, Inc., of Santa Clara, CA, or an equivalent product.   Homepage […]

DARPA looking to develop ultra-fast laser tech for detection, communications

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  communications The defense department’s technology developed wants help in developing laser technology that could exponentially amp up radar scanning, secure communications, supercharge explosives and chemical detection systems, as well as provide extremely detailed medical images. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)  said on Aug. 8 it was seeking proposers […]

ObjectVideo lands $15.6 million IARPA contract to develop ‘geolocation’ technology

Top Priority Sector:  video_surveillance_cctv ObjectVideo, Inc., a supplier of intelligent video, announced on July 23 that it has been awarded a $15.6 million contract by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) incisive analysis office to develop a technology that, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full post on The Cyber Wars

Researchers Develop Technique to Identify Anonymous E-Mail Authors

IP addresses may help identify the source of anonymous and malicious e-mails, but they can only tell authorities where the message originated, without providing many details on the individual who authored them. Using some pretty innovative analytics, researchers at Concordia University have just come up with a new technique that could help investigators determine the […]

Study warns US must develop cyber intelligence (AP)

AP – A new study warns that the U.S. must develop cyber intelligence as a new and better coordinated government discipline that can predict computer-related threats and deter them. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security