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DHS RFI – Robotic Communications Technologies (AR/VR control interfaces, autonomous navigation, visualization and mapping, and other enabling technologies)

Homeland Security is looking for innovative robots that can navigate underground tunnels and communicate with headquarters. Customs and Border Protection uses technology to scan faces, probe vehicles and keep a watchful eye on the border from the skies above. The agency—with help from Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate—also is looking to send robots into

Better Tools Along the Border

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Innocents being used as human shields is not new. Placing police and security forces into positions where they are portrayed as brutal thugs in the media didn’t start with the recent incident last month, when tear gas was used on the Mexican border. The battles in the summer of 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, saw

The Fight Against Unmanned Aircraft Intrusions

One of the best examples of how rapidly advancing technologies can change security requirements is the rise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Relatively unknown to all but a few in the military as recently as 1990, today they are central to militaries throughout the world; the general public can even buy them in grocery stores.

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