For years the issue of piracy on the high seas has been a chronic, yet almost acceptable disease inflicting the maritime and maritime insurance industries. But the recent hijacking of the Sirius Star, a Saudi super large oil tanker, off the Eastern coast of Africa concentrated the collective minds of both …

Persistent aerial platforms, or unmanned flight vehicles that will fly above 19km altitude for weeks to years at a time, will revolutionize several industries. Defense professionals will see reductions in both high-flying UAVs and low-flying satellites…

How will the global economic recession impact individual countries’ national security spending? In our new market report Global Homeland Security, Homeland Defense & Intelligence Markets Outlook 2009-2018 (launched November 2008), HSRC analysts analyzed the national security spending of 20 countries…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the US military’s future-focused engineering developer, finished initial development and evaluation of stratospheric airships. DARPA declared them ready for large scale prototyping in 2007….

Despite the feeling that we live in a predominantly technological society, and that consequently technology drives society many crucial decisions that lead to the adoption of certain technologies, and to our adaptation to certain technologies, are not based purely on technology…

Air Force resistance to change has delayed the deployment of “backtracking” capabilities, or the ability to play a video traffic record in reverse to find bomb factories, weapons caches, safe houses, etc. This is one of the conclusions of an upcoming Persistent High Altitude Arial Platform Technologies and Markets Forecast…

A new report “Global Homeland Security, Homeland Defense & Intelligence Markets Outlook 2009-2018” concludes that on the backdrop of the global economic crisis, the HLS-HLD government & private sector budgets will remain recession-proof and grow by 80% from $418 Billion by 2009 to $748 Billion by 2018.

An economic downturn will surely have a negative impact on economically weak populations in developing countries, such as Pakistan, India, China, Philippines, and many African and north African countries. Less economic activity means less economic opportunity which translates into less employment and less potential to …