MDA has a winning model for airborne ISR for military - fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with electro-optical and infrared. A recent Business Week article on Capella Space synthetic aperture radar (SAR) titillated audiences with the promise military grade airborne ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) on any target at a Walmart price - US $5 … [Read more...]
SYSTRAN: Mastering the Tower of OSINT Babel
C5IS reviews SYSTRAN, a market leader in machine translation for Military and Government Intelligence clients worldwide. While 100G monitoring systems can intercept data at unprecedented speeds, merely capturing content is, of course, not equivalent to understanding it. We live in a world of 6,500 languages. Of these, 10 are spoken by half the world’s population. Some 2,000 … [Read more...]
Lumacron – Lighting Up Enemy Forces and Terrorists at Wire Speed
C5IS reviews Lumacron, a provider of FPGA-based solutions for 100% signal capture – led by industry legend Ian Graham. Ask any military intelligence or law enforcement agent what their greatest challenge is, and they might respond, “packet loss on high-speed networks.” By the same token, the switch from 1G to 10G, 40G or 100G networks can be a problem of comparable magnitude … [Read more...]
The Fall of Arab Spring – Military Rule in the Middle East
The Fall of Arab Spring in Egypt illustrates the enduring allure of military government in the region: stability and protection of the people. During the recent visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the U.S., liberal media exploded with negative coverage of President Trump’s meeting with “the worst military dictator in Egyptian history.” El-Sisi was generally … [Read more...]
Dominator: Elbit Systems Airborne and Ground Surveillance
Elbit Systems’ creation of Cyberbit - where it houses the NICE Systems intelligence assets acquired in May 2015 - tends to foster the impression that the parent company’s range of ISS solutions is confined to that group only. It is essential to remember that Elbit Systems, a division of Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI), is first and foremost a military contractor. The … [Read more...]