Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security TSA has issued a solicitation to prospective vendors who can supply complete airline industry flight data — including airline names, flight numbers, itinerary variations, identifiers, times of flight sectors and many other data elements — on a twice-a-week basis. Homepage position: 10 read more…
UAVs autonomously refuel in flight during DARPA demo
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: UAV refueling Two modified RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles successfully demonstrated technology that allows unmanned vehicles to be automatically refueled in-flight, an important step in conducting surveillance and combat duties, said the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency on Oct. 5. Homepage…
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail as low flight risk
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail in a New Zealand court this morning after a judge found he is not a flight risk, disagreeing with two previous rulings that kept him in jail. Dotcom and several others ran Megaupload, a now-defunct file-sharing site that drew the ire of the…