• Gun registration debate in Canada intensifies

    Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to remove long guns from the country’s National Firearms Registry - in effect, making it unnecessary for Canadian to register their long guns; the Canadian association of police chiefs police chiefs adamantly opposes Harper’s move; Toronto police chief Bill Blair says: “It’s not a matter of ideology for us. It’s a matter of public safety. It’s just a matter of officer safety.”

  • Hagerstown PD disappears from analog scanners

    Those wishing to listen in on Hagerstown Police Department calls will have to update their technology: the “patch” to the old 800 MHz frequency, which allowed simulcasting of calls on the old analog frequencies, was taken down last week

  • Testing rayguns

    Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance — these weapons known as directed energy weapons — have been in development for many years; before these weapons can be used in the field, the lasers must be tested and evaluated at test ranges, and the power and energy distribution of the high-energy laser beam must be accurately measured on a target board, with high spatial and temporal resolution

  • Tracking algorithms for multiple targets win Australia's prestigious Eureka Prize

    A University of Western Australia team — including two borthers who are professors at the school — have won the Eureka Prizes, Australia’s “science Oscars,” for a tracking system that has revolutionized the surveillance and monitoring of potential threats in the vast air, sea, and land space of Australia — and of other countries